Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1916 — Hen Hatches Quail Eggs And Mothers Brood of 13. [ARTICLE]

Hen Hatches Quail Eggs And Mothers Brood of 13.

A son of Eliza Smith, when working in a wheat field two weeks ago, near Bedford, Ind., found a quail’3 nert containnig thirteen eggs. He took the eggs to his home and put them under a setting hen. The hen hatched them out in a few days, and Since then Biddy has raised them with her other chicks and seems as proud of them as though they were her own kin. She looks after them the same as the others, feeding them liny grasshoppers, etc. The little quails run to her when she calls them, and hover under her at night, the same as her own clucks.