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Oh!! I am so excited!! Our eggs are starting to hatch!!! One actualy already has. This morning Starlight told me that she and mom heard piping in the eggs. She was so excited. Then Mom suggested that we go get one more from the nest and put it in the incubator. Breeze and Starlight went to get one. So much for one more they just came in with yet another one. Well, on with my story. A few seconds after they left they flew back into the house. " She has a chick come see. " I put my sandels and was out the door. Mom followed not far behind. The chick was healthy and strong and so cute!! We were still concerned about the cats and dogs bothering the, to say it nicely. So, I started to prepare one of our cages for the new family. It was made to be a rabbit hutch. It has wire mesh on the bottom. So after trying to lay several things on the bottom of the cage, I finally put gip rock in it. We went back to the house. Mom told us not to put The nesting box with the eggs and the hen, in the cage, yet. Back in the house we started hearing the peeps louder and still louder. Even though the eggs still don't have any cracks, we can hear them peep in another room. Though all this there is still faithful mother hen still siting on the remainder of her eggs, and watching her new chick (we left her with the mother).I got a piece of apple and started feeding her. She was so happy she was talking to me as she ate when ever I stopped feeding her she would make a screech that sounded like "MORE." We also gave her some banana and chicken feed. She ate it all straight from our hands. While I worked, Breeze snuggled the chick. Oh, it is darling just as I predicted. Then I got a pad and put a little bit of water on it then I put some of the chicken feed in it. I mixed it up to make a sort of paste, (my hands were yucky). We put that in the cage; then lifted the nesting box into it too. I took the Mother hen of her nest to check on the rest of the eggs. She started eating from the pan right away. She was very hungry to eat all the food that she did. Poor girl!! Before returning to the house I had to clean up one of her messes.  Our biggest challenge will be to keep the cage clean!! Well thats all for now. Iryssa |
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