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I cannot get close enough to them to get a picture just yet, but I just thought I'd let you know: The baby chickens are doing extremely well.
After hosting (t)Hatch and Pico Bobin in my room beside my bed for about one and a half weeks and nursing them to health, we snuck them under Mama Ophelia when she was nesting with the others. These little ones I helped crack open from their stuck shell, used my breath to keep them warm and breathe life into them, drip-fed them with a sterile baby medicine syringe fluids, and had cheeping beside my face for nearly two weeks. Now they've got a new mama, and I couldn't be prouder of the little idiots.
We are about 90% certain that Massegger Soldier Killer and Roostass Kid are cockerels, but it is quite hard to tell at such a young age. Just gotta wait until they start crowing in 20 more weeks. (t)Hatch and Bobin look like young pullets, but we have been wrong before ('Daryl' was initially 'Dahlia' until he went: "Cegh reh heeh heeeeerhhhr").
Unfortunately, Hen Peckman did not make it past four days old at no fault of human or chicken kind. Had to explain to my son that sometimes these things happen, which he likened to the 'squiggly black things' that we lost in the initial hatching experience. Where there is life and great joy, there is also death and deep sorrow.
For now, we have four little fuzz-butts: Roostass Kid, Massegger Soldier Killer, (t)Hatch, and Pico Bobin. Mama Ophelia is doing a wonderful job at raising babies that are absolutely not from any egg she laid herself. Best mama ever.
#snail answers#chick update#baby chickens#personal post#rip hen peckman#roostass kid#Massegger Soldier Killer#hatch & bobin
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