Today we had 5 chicks hatch. The first to hatch started cracking a tiny hole at 8:00 AM the previous morning, and it finally hatched at about 1:30 AM the next day. At first we could only see a little beak poking out the small hole it had made. The chick gradually turned in the egg, making a long crack all the way around the egg. Once the chick had got the egg shell off it would wiggle until it was out of the egg. Once the chick was out it would lay and rest for a while. When all rested up the chick would try walking, most the time it would last only a few seconds before falling down though. The chicks were very curios, so they would peck the other eggs. Every chick did something either funny or amazing, one chick crawled back under its egg shell, another chick must have just pushed all it could because its egg shell burst open sending chunks of shell flying in all directions, and one chick was even doing backflips (because its balance was off and its belly was fat)! Once the chick's feathers were dry we put it in a box with a makeshift heat lamp and food. When all 5 chicks were in the box they started pecking each others face, and biting another's toes, some even cuddled up with each other and fell asleep.
Wow.. you go daddy Braden! Your little baby chicks are sssooo cute! So when can we come over for some bbq chicken? just kidding! Keep up the good work:)
ReplyDeleteYeah!!! You have baby chicks!!! How cool! =) Did the babies look how you expected them to when they were first born? Are they soft and fuzzy yet?
ReplyDeleteWhen the babies first hatched I didn't know what to expect. Before the chicks hatched I thought that we would only get black, yellow, and brown. I was surprised when there were grey, black, yellow, and orange.
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