Feeding Time!

[daphnep]

Number three is hatching! The hole in the egg has turned into a line,
and while mommy fed the other two chicks, number three pressed on his
shell enough to wiggle out one pathetic little stumpy wing and wobble it
all around. We have one wing free! Soon he'll be out, all the way.

In the meantime, chicks #1 and #2 squabble over the mouse bites, pecking
each other even though they can barely hold up their heads. They have no
table manners whatsoever!

Comments

[portia.livejournal.com]

I was watching too when he was hatching! I almost cried when I saw that little skinny wing stick out of the crack in the shell. It was wondrous!

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

That little skinny wing was the best moment I've seen on that camera, yet. "Oh, look," I said to my assistant, "that egg has a whole long crack along it!" and just then the point lifted up and that wing flopped out, so helplessly and so like a barbeque buffalo wing, only ten times more pathetic and scrawny, and all flappy and urgent, like "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Yeah. That was the best part.