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No 37 : July 25, 1957

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"Wee Jimmy"
"Mother" of 64

Meet "Wee Jimmy", a Buff Pekin Bantam cock owned by Mr and Mrs D. A. Walker, of 42 Stanley Road.

Jimmy has won two championships and a sheaf of first prize tickets. But that is not his enduring claim to fame. What makes him different is his "mother instinct".

Three years ago he was left in a cage with a hen and her chicks. That was his big chance. He promptly took over and mothered half the brood.

Since then he has brought up a family of 64. Currently he has a family of eight––4 Andalusians, a Chinese Silkie, two Phuckoo chicks, and a pencil–blue Racing Homer pigeon. The chicks were nine days old when these pictures were taken, the pigeon three weeks.

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$$$ as though he might be $$$ sex–change operation $$$ on brood. Pigeon $$$ chick is almost too big to enjoy Jimmy's protective shelter.

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Feeding time for the family.

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Jimmy looks up in amazement at big Blue Andalusian cockerell twice his size, one of his "babies" from last year.

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Sentiment has no place in the fowlrun. Jimmy gets off his bike properly when he imagines cockerell might have designs on his present family.

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With the menace removed, Jimmy crows his triumph. Poker–faced pigeon remains impassive throughout. Little white chick behind pigeon is Chinese Silkie, which underneath feathers has a skin as black as ink.

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Jimmy is not concerned when Peter the Cockatiel perches on his back.

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