Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-07 | Page 12 | Thirteenth Chick Proves Mystery in Local Henyard

Thirteenth Chick Proves Mystery in Local Heoyard A HEN in the henyard maintained, by A. AV. Raybould. 525 South West Temple street, has achieved a record that shades that of "bid-die." "bid-die." who produced CO eggs a year, The said C'ln.ppg hen !s a myth, as everyone knows except in the reports of agricultural colleges and government reports, reproduced in poultry Journa !s, but the hen owned by Mr. Ravbould is a fact and be insists that her record of thirteen chicks from twelve egs is also a fact. He admits, houevpr. that the thirteenth chick is a freak, that "it ain't human." speaking from a chicken's point of view. For one thin it is misshapen and undersized. un-dersized. E it. more con,!us! e of its inhuman in st ; nets as a human or a chicken, it ha.s forsake:: us mother for its father. In other word?, it is being hovered evry night by th1 rojter of t hMi arri. crawling under the wings of chanticleer for protection from the cold, for (he freak is scantily supplied with feathers. Mr. R.--yhou!d is convinced '.hat f'nr. thirteenth chick must have been thf byproduct by-product of a double-yo'ked egg. He can-n"r can-n"r account fnr its cieav-ric. to tr.e patriarch patri-arch of the flock no for the fat that The loud boast in old fallow is will: ng to pe-form as a hen to th degree of hol ering er-ing the chick. He allows that it h- ym on- of th human inconsistent- 'f 'hh'ken rature. I