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Here are my little helpless scraps of flesh. They get cuter when their feathers come in! But they are pretty cute when they squeak for food.

Oh, they are beautiful! Isn't it fun when the kids name them?

I love the tiny bantam chicks too! We've hatched a few chicken chicks, only because the lady I got the eggs off took back any boys. Wish we could do it more often. Though my finches seem to be keeping me busy enough! Yes, it's a lot of work (6-7 weeks of frequent feeds) but I adore our hand...

Finches sometimes take awhile to get the hang of parenting but last time I ended up with babies with nipped off toes. I thought it was the mouse I'd caught in my aviary, but now my aviary is Fort Knox, yet one of the recent chicks again has missing toes. So yes, that was the last chance they...

Or you end up with two newly hatched finches to try and hand rear because their parents are useless and squashed the other two babies!!! This requires hourly feeds on top of everything else! I already have seven of this pairs offspring I've had to hand rear and I really thought they'd do fine...

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Awesome! Clever baby!

Oh, they are so cute! Can't wait to see those 20 hour babies!

In New Zealand our production breed is the Brown Shaver and they lay brown eggs. That's all you can buy at the shops. I have a few white egg layers and I love those white eggs! There is still the misconception here that brown eggs are better for you!

This is very cool (plus I adore OEGBs)! Can't wait to see what happens! Your hatched babies are so beautiful. Fingers crossed for your little battlers. I keep finches and candling their eggs is amazing, even in bright light, because the shells are so thin. I love seeing that tiny little heart...