True stories of a small flock of remarkable individuals -- and other critters.



Showing posts with label brooding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brooding. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

GOOD MORNING

...continued from previous post: EGG EMERGENCY



Lucy got straight to work raising her little one.



Hear Lucy?   Budup.. budup..
When she finds a treat in the corner, she has a different sound for that.  the chick knows exactly what she's talking about.

The chick stayed put inside the nestbox for only a day.
Then it toppled off the ledge.   I couldn't figure out how to babyproof Lucy's coop, so I put together a new home for them -- something easy and safe and quick:

This:






becomes this:








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This:                             becomes this:









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Lucy looked like any new mother..









.....happy and exhausted.

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