The Potting Shed

Kathy · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:41 am Post subject: Agapanthus's Chicks

One has hatched, yesterday at 4.45, no sign of any of the others yet. It's now in the brooder and cheeps all the time, noisy wee thing it is! It's pooed, eaten and drank so I'm assuming it's all in working order!

Jellycat · 4 Star Club Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 1830

Awwww - little fluff-ball Very Happy

When are they back Kathy? I think you're very brave taking on egg/chick-sitting duties....rather you than me!
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Kathy · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject:

They only went on Tuesday, for 2 weeks. Shocked

There was a problem with the passport so they went later than intended, hence the timing with the eggs.
Agapanthus will tell you I was a tad reluctant to take this on, but she asked me so nicely and said not to worry, if they live they live, if they don't they don't!

Everytime the chick here's my voice it starts cheeping, I'm having to tip toe around the place, hope some of the others hatch! Laughing

Jojo · 2 Star Club Joined: 13 Jul 2007 Posts: 632 Location: Lincs

So cute Kathy,don't they say the first thing a chick see's it thinks it is it's Mum Laughing

what do you feed them?

nanny · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 7:31 pm Post subject:

jojo for the first 24 hours they don't need feeding as they are still absorbing the albumen from the egg then you feed them chick crumbs

i would feel very responsible for them kathy, i think you are very brave

nice though isn't it to have chicks in the house......

Kathy · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 9:22 pm Post subject:

It's a holy terror, keeps trying to flap out of the box and hardly ever shuts up cheeping. Hope some of the others hatch to keep it occupied.

Nanny, my living room resembles a cross between a greenhouse and a hatchery......................

coco331 · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:39 pm Post subject:

None of the other ones have hatched yet.....I don't know if they will or not.....They are very late, it's a shame, wee chikadee is lonely, we gave him a cuddly toy for comfort but it would be better if he had some fellow chicks!

We don't actually know if it's a boy, but we just started calling it a him, so it's a him for now
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Kathy · Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject:

Here he is with his cuddly toy!