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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Almost All Grown Up
Posted in School Things
Hello, friends! It's been a few days longer than I planned to get back here and update our quail project. Truthfully, I'm having a bit of trouble with my laptop, and there are very few things I've been able to get accomplished in the last week. Many sites wouldn't load. My e-mail would choose to send or not send at its every whim. *sigh* Have I mentioned I have a love-hate relationship with my technology? I can't even get to my own site to moderate it right now, and that is driving me crazy. :'P Feel free to pray for the perfect available laptop for me. ;'D
Okay, enough of that. On to the fun stuff!
Our quail hatched on September 22nd (the First Day of Autumn), which makes them now about 18 days old. It seems like they should be older to me, but I just counted on the calendar. Technically, they aren't quite three weeks old yet. Isn't that amazing? They are changing so fast, I barely recognize the little chicks for what they were.
If you look at the previous post, you'll see the photos that sort of chronicle their grown over the last couple weeks. It's been lightning-fast for us! Now, they are nearly completely feathered.
Interesting things we've learned over the last weeks:
- The chicks are wobbly for a few hours, but can run by Day 2.
- God feathered the chicks' wings first on about Day 7.
- Their backs and tails feathered next.
- After that, they feathered pretty evenly all over their bodies.
- The last place they feather is their heads.
- Feathers poke out in little covered "spikes" and are fluffed by the chicks.
- A chick can fly up (probably for protection against predators) at about a week and a half.
- The chicks can fly several feet at this point in their development.
- You can't imagine how fast they can RUN by now!
- We aren't sure of gender yet; we can't see male "bibs" on either of them.
If we compared the development of these ground birds to the development of P*'s parakeets, we would see a whole different pattern of development. Above ground nesting birds would certainly not be running or flying so early in their lives. Of course, they would need feathering, and it would take place nearly as quickly. But, we would see God do things slightly differently depending upon the needs and wisdom for that species. This qualifies for "Things that make you go, 'Hmmmmmmmm.'"
I hope you've enjoyed our little update. Pictures are coming...if I can get the laptop to give it the old "college try" in talking to my camera. ;')
Whatever the case, have a fabulous day, friends! After all, it's THURSDAY!
("And there was much rejoicing!")
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Patiently (ha!) waiting for chick pics...