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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20906, 13 July 1933, Page 6

i Many strange associations have been recorded in the animal king, dom and feathered world, but one which can be seen at present on -the property of Mr W. Thornburn, at Tararu, near Thames, will take a lot of beating There a Black Orpington hen is doing her .best to mother a litter of seven pigs, the progeny of a Yorkshire sow. The mother of the young pigs seems quite content to hand pv»er the c&re of the litter, who are taken for a constitutional by their foster-mother though the Latter finds great difficulty in covering them when perched on top. All the occupants of the sty lie down together in complete harmony. Anpther strange feature of tl.ij most unusual association is that the, hen had previously shown no' indication of being broody. Now, however, she fles at any intruder.