Clifton, Pa., Man Denies That He is “An Old Hen” But Admits That an Egg Placed in His Bed Became a Chick.
    Pittsburg, Pa.-Oscar Heinze, a farmer of Clifton, holds the human incubator record.
    Little did he expect when he took his bedtick to the barn recently and filled it with straw that he was to become parent to a chick.
    The straw happened to contain a hen’s egg, but Heinze did not know. For a couple of weeks he slept on the newly filled matress before he was aroused by a “Cheep! cheep’ cheep!”
    He lighted a lamp and searched the room, but could not find the source of the sounds, which had become louder.
    Finally he was convinced the “cheep, cheep” came from his bed, and with a knife slit open the tick. Inside, near the surface was a lively chick, which the heat of his body had hatched from the egg.
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