Hens Raise Chicks Together, 1935

March, 1935, issue of the Carolina Co-Operator (formerly The Carolina Cotton Grower)

This is a story about 11-year-old Richard Leiper and two Barred Rock hens as told by Richard’s father, Bart Leiper, advertising manager of the Pilot Life Insurance Company in Greensboro.

Richard had two Barred Rock hens which he had raised from some biddies his grandparents had given him. Last fall one of the hens wanted to “set” so Richard put eggs under her. The other hen kept right on laying.

The day the biddies hatched the laying hen laid an egg. Just as soon as the “setting” hen brought her brood off the nest, however, the hen that had been laying turned mother and took one-half of the brood from the hen that had hatched the eggs. And together the two hens brought up a fine bunch of chicks.