Spirited Sons - Eggs-ceptional Development!

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Monday, September 29, 2008

Eggs-ceptional Development!

Posted in School Things

Those of you who are following the development of our quail chicks, I can't even begin to put into words how fast this goes. Remember that they hatched exactly one week ago today. They were tiny, and I managed to get pictures of their first minutes in the brooder, just eight or so hours after hatching and drying.

Well, last night we got pictures again. You might have a hard time believing me, but if you watched some of the specific developments going on now (feathering), you might actually be able to see differences in short periods of time (8 hours even)! This is the crazy-fast developing time.

Right now the chicks are entering what I would call their "gangly teenager" phase. Their adorable chick fluff is giving way to the new feathers that are poking through. They will get pretty odd-looking before they hit their lovely full-fledged adult stage.

You might be able to see that my guesses for the colors of these chicks just might be spot on. I believe one will be slate and the other silver or smoky. We'll see. . .

Here are the latest pics from late last night.

Remember when they were newly hatched one week ago? That was then . . .

This is NOW! See the amount of feathering? Just two days before, we could just barely see the first feathers poking through.

You can see the covering on the feathers. The chicks are occasionally working to get their feathers a little more fluffed. Today, they are trying to FLY! (Hello!?!?! I forgot about this part!)

Don't they look so different? From this angle, they still look cute and fluffy like we're used to seeing. Days from now, they will look very, very different! ;')

I hope you enjoyed the update! Tomorrow I'll be sharing our new voracious friend in our zoo! :'O

Blessings!