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[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0402]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Victims of the weather are Jeffrey Hays' 1955 Easter chicks. Each year Henny Penny, the bantam Easter chick Jeffrey got six years ago when he was 2, sets to produce chicks for her small owner to give to his friends on the holiday, but this year the March freeze got to the nest in the Hays garage, and only one of 10 eggs hatched. At least it was black, Jeffrey's favorite over traditional yellow."
Date: April 1, 1955
Creator: Killian, Thomas F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0424]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "State Humane Officer William B. Wheeler of Colorado is shown above applying his magnifying glass on Mathilda, a hen, to decide whether her home in a five gallon jug is suitable and agreeable to her. Mathilda has been living in the jug in Denver while her owner, Henry Willis, conducts an experiment regarding regular diet."
Date: March 1, 1936
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0413]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This may be one answer to the high price of meat -- development of chickens that yield three drumsticks, not just two. This tri-pedal fowl, a cross between a White Leghorn and a Black Austrolorp, made its appearance at Payn's new State Hatchery, 2903 NW 10."
Date: February 25, 1948
Creator: Owen, A. Y.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0408]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "While betting odds changed like a stock market's nightmare, the champ weighed in at his stall Monday night, scowling defiance to the world. Tuesday morning his crown as egg laying champion of the state will at stake."
Date: September 20, 1937
Creator: Kaho, C. J.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0383]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "You've heard about weather so hot that it would fry an egg. Well, these are the days when the sun is mightier than the incubator. Here you have an egg which had been coasting along at the relatively cool temperature of 99 1/2 degrees, the approximate heat at which incubators uniformly are kept. The photographer selected a couple of hatchery eggs and placed them on the sidewalk in Wednesday's maximum of 102 degrees. First t… more
Date: August 17, 1936
Creator: Allred
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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