I can just see Rose, all pumped up, fluffed up, and looking just terrifying starring down at the quivering babies. The babies crying like little damsels in distress. Then, the sudden carfuful of you running screeching, broom in hand. Little Rose suddenly seeing her life flash before her eyes...
(Clucking of tongue)
Yes, your babies are geniuses! They figured that out?! Wonderful 😊 babies you have!
This is the kind of brain power that their (delicious and mostly helpless) ancestors depended on to survive in the cruel world before hardware cloth and chicken-ladies&gents evolved to...
Re: singing to calm them down, yes, that helps mine too... And I have an Echo Dot (I do not recommend it unless you get it super cheap), which picks up the house WIFI, so I play them lullabies at night, sometimes I will play it when I want them to come in for the night.
Re: lighting, I have a...
Gosh, testament to your story telling skills... I am reading along like this is a soap opera...
(The Young & The Restless
becomes
The Hatchlings & The Broody)