Millard County Chronicle | 1912-08-29 | Page 5 | Leghorn Hens as Mothers

LEGHORN HENS AS MOTHERS Although Called Nonsittere Occasion- ally One la Found and Will Cover Many Eggs. Although the I-,!,orn are called DotiHltters, they do sit occasionally, and I like them very much as mothers. moth-ers. It would hardly necm iohille that a Leghorn ben would cover mots 6ingie-Comb Leghorn. eg? than a Cochin, but It Is a fat, say a writer In nn exchiiiige. Tbe Cochin's wings are tbort and stubby, w hile the I. i;! oni's wings arc b t;K and she will spread them over a big nentful. I-art summer a leghorn Incubated In-cubated 20 eKKs for nie and hatcbed 19 of them. It was, however, in the tionth of July, and her tieft wis carefully care-fully arraiiKl In a btmket; bi.t I never nev-er give tlx tu lees than 15. Tby take ixrellent (are of their younp; beliig JlRht Weight, they Seldom hurt a chicks by stepping on It. and thy will fight Intruders fiercely.