SUSAN:
Late afternoon Wednesday (June 29), two little baby chicks tried to hatch from their egg shells. Unfortunately, both got kind of "stuck". Luckily for one of them, Nigel was able to intervene and remove the egg from the baby chick and she/he survived! She's a precious little yellow chick with two black marks on her lower back.
Mama Hen had been sitting on 5 eggs. On Friday she abandoned the remaining 3 eggs ... so, we have only 1 baby chick from this setting/brooding period. It's really interesting to me that the mom knows when to abandon the eggs. Thursday would have been her 21st day; so she abandoned on the 22nd day. How does she know that those eggs are not fertilized?
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