I don't remember much, some movement, light and dark, warmth, the occasional peep of one of my brothers or sister. A frantic clucking would come through my shell as I grew. Our mom was not happy being away from the others I think.
I heard a crack, and faint peeps of my brother as he pipped. His chirps got louder and soon the sharp but deep sounding cluck of our mom saying "come look here, look at this food".
I'm not sure how I knew what she was saying but as I developed, safe in my egg, my mind absorbed the sounds around me, so that when I hatched I would know my mother, and my siblings, and I would know when she was telling me something.
Over the next few days I heard another crack from an egg next to me, another faint peep, and my sister pipped. I soon heard her chirps joining my brother. And another egg pipping, cracking and a half sib joined the growing brood. I wanted out, I knew I had to wait.. but ohhh i wanted out!!
And then a fourth, this was not fair, when would I get big enough!! Another brother was out, our mother spent less time on the nest, I got cold, but then warm again.
Suddenly I heard a frantic cheeping, one of my siblings was out, not in with our mother and my siblings.
A quiet voice, it tried to speak like a chicken, it said "Chook, chook, chook, chook." but more like 'shook'.
My brother quieted, and then the happy clucks of my mother and our siblings as my brother joined us again.
OH... OH!!.. I wanted to rock my egg, just a little more time!! I would be out, i would be running and pecking and growing!
But... I got cold, I would get warm for a while but the warmth I needed, I sooo desperately needed so I could grow big enough to pip. That great event where a young bird first breathes in the outside air, where their wet feathers dry under their mother, and they meet her, and their brothers and sisters.
I hear less cheeps, what has happened?? I hear the quiet voice again, and my sister and half sib are gone. Mother doesn't seem perturbed though. I hear another cracking.. but no cheeping, no peeping...
I am cold again, so cold... I think I will sleep again. I don't feel all that well, doesn't my mother know I need her warmth?
I think I feel movement, I think I'm moving, but I'm not sure, I feel cold... I fall asleep again.
What is that? ohhh.. ohhh..!! I feel warm!, my egg is moving, slowly, slowly. AHHHH I move a little in my egg, I feel soo warm!!
But i don't hear my mother clucking, I don't hear my brothers or sister...I hear a ticking and grinding noise, but I feel warm.
So thats OK, I do hear a faint cheeping and chirping but its not my mother or the greater noise of the flock. these are higher and very foreign to a little baby chick.
Time to PIP!!
But wait, I'm in an odd position, I kick and peck at the inside, and I crack the egg, But I can't seem to get out.
I get another hole open in another section of the shell, and another smaller one.. i am getting tired.
My head is in the wrong place, I can't seem to get traction to be able to get out.
I am being lifted... ahhhh....
I hear the quiet voice again, I feel the egg coming loose a bit, I see a light, not the faint blue/white/grey light that comes through my egg.. much brighter, i am smelling such strange smells, hearing such strange noises..
But I am not standing on my head anymore, I am flat and now i can get free of my egg!!
Oh but such a small space, and there isn't any soft feathers of my mother, I bump into something, Its another egg!
And as I make it over that one, there is another, and yet ANOTHER.... Finally I make my way over each of them. There is that grinding noise.. I will head towards that.
I sit there, exhausted, but its warm, a bit damp, but warm!!
A little while later The air gets a little cool, but I hear the quiet voice again. I'm being lifted up, and smooth pink things pick me up and they are warm. The voice says, "Well hello!!!"
I am being moved from the damp but warm place, I think I see my sibling's eggs, I think I climbed over them...
Soon I hear LOTS of cheeping and chirping, and I am in a very warm place.
I hear two voices that I heard faintly before!! Is my family here???
The light is SOOO bright, but soo warm. I am soo tired.
I am in a brown thing but I can see the light above me, I can hear other chicks, I am sitting on something white.. I sleep , but i wake up and I am soo hot, too hot I think.. I start to pant.
I am being picked up again, the soft quiet voiced being who says, "Chook Chook Chook"
My beak is dipped into something wet, ahh water.. blessed water, I take a sip, and drink it... the pink things are like feathers but not as pretty, or as light, but they hold me and I feel safe!!
The pink things help fluff up my feathers a bit, I try to walk but my legs are SOO weak.. the pink things help me to stand and help me to get a drink again. Soon when i am warm, I am lifted up again, but I don't feel any fear, I am under the quiet ones chin, held there by the pink things.
I am set down on something warm, and OH WOW.. what was the bright thing... It goes off again, but then it stops..I am being fluffed up again, and the pink things make me feel warm!!
I am tired again, being born from an egg is hard work!
Time to sleep in the warm light, I hear other chicks and feel my foster sibs around me, and hear my sister and half sib nearby.
I was born yesterday 4/30/12, my "mom" went broody and my human stuffed a bunch of eggs under her. I am sure there were some she actually laid. But my "mom" was run out of her spot a few times, and more eggs were laid. I was one of those eggs.
After being moved, she wanted out of the pen/cage she was in, but then settled down and my four siblings were hatched. But after that, she didn't want to be a broody hen anymore. I and 3 other eggs got very cold.. and my human took us home and put us in the incubator, with little hope we might still be alive.
Well low and behold, I was, and was pipping IN the egg turner. She found me, and helped removed some shell and laid me in the egg on the wire and came back later, I was out, and in the far corner.
She took my sister and a probable sibling away from my "mom" before I was born, so they are in a brooder near me now.
She will be updating this thread daily with pictures.
This pic is from me yesterday, a bit after I was born. I got the name Slick, as my feathers still aren't very poofy!!
Read more about my day, later tonight or tomorrow!
I heard a crack, and faint peeps of my brother as he pipped. His chirps got louder and soon the sharp but deep sounding cluck of our mom saying "come look here, look at this food".
I'm not sure how I knew what she was saying but as I developed, safe in my egg, my mind absorbed the sounds around me, so that when I hatched I would know my mother, and my siblings, and I would know when she was telling me something.
Over the next few days I heard another crack from an egg next to me, another faint peep, and my sister pipped. I soon heard her chirps joining my brother. And another egg pipping, cracking and a half sib joined the growing brood. I wanted out, I knew I had to wait.. but ohhh i wanted out!!
And then a fourth, this was not fair, when would I get big enough!! Another brother was out, our mother spent less time on the nest, I got cold, but then warm again.
Suddenly I heard a frantic cheeping, one of my siblings was out, not in with our mother and my siblings.
A quiet voice, it tried to speak like a chicken, it said "Chook, chook, chook, chook." but more like 'shook'.
My brother quieted, and then the happy clucks of my mother and our siblings as my brother joined us again.
OH... OH!!.. I wanted to rock my egg, just a little more time!! I would be out, i would be running and pecking and growing!
But... I got cold, I would get warm for a while but the warmth I needed, I sooo desperately needed so I could grow big enough to pip. That great event where a young bird first breathes in the outside air, where their wet feathers dry under their mother, and they meet her, and their brothers and sisters.
I hear less cheeps, what has happened?? I hear the quiet voice again, and my sister and half sib are gone. Mother doesn't seem perturbed though. I hear another cracking.. but no cheeping, no peeping...
I am cold again, so cold... I think I will sleep again. I don't feel all that well, doesn't my mother know I need her warmth?
I think I feel movement, I think I'm moving, but I'm not sure, I feel cold... I fall asleep again.
What is that? ohhh.. ohhh..!! I feel warm!, my egg is moving, slowly, slowly. AHHHH I move a little in my egg, I feel soo warm!!
But i don't hear my mother clucking, I don't hear my brothers or sister...I hear a ticking and grinding noise, but I feel warm.
So thats OK, I do hear a faint cheeping and chirping but its not my mother or the greater noise of the flock. these are higher and very foreign to a little baby chick.
Time to PIP!!
But wait, I'm in an odd position, I kick and peck at the inside, and I crack the egg, But I can't seem to get out.
I get another hole open in another section of the shell, and another smaller one.. i am getting tired.
My head is in the wrong place, I can't seem to get traction to be able to get out.
I am being lifted... ahhhh....
I hear the quiet voice again, I feel the egg coming loose a bit, I see a light, not the faint blue/white/grey light that comes through my egg.. much brighter, i am smelling such strange smells, hearing such strange noises..
But I am not standing on my head anymore, I am flat and now i can get free of my egg!!
Oh but such a small space, and there isn't any soft feathers of my mother, I bump into something, Its another egg!
And as I make it over that one, there is another, and yet ANOTHER.... Finally I make my way over each of them. There is that grinding noise.. I will head towards that.
I sit there, exhausted, but its warm, a bit damp, but warm!!
A little while later The air gets a little cool, but I hear the quiet voice again. I'm being lifted up, and smooth pink things pick me up and they are warm. The voice says, "Well hello!!!"
I am being moved from the damp but warm place, I think I see my sibling's eggs, I think I climbed over them...
Soon I hear LOTS of cheeping and chirping, and I am in a very warm place.
I hear two voices that I heard faintly before!! Is my family here???
The light is SOOO bright, but soo warm. I am soo tired.
I am in a brown thing but I can see the light above me, I can hear other chicks, I am sitting on something white.. I sleep , but i wake up and I am soo hot, too hot I think.. I start to pant.
I am being picked up again, the soft quiet voiced being who says, "Chook Chook Chook"
My beak is dipped into something wet, ahh water.. blessed water, I take a sip, and drink it... the pink things are like feathers but not as pretty, or as light, but they hold me and I feel safe!!
The pink things help fluff up my feathers a bit, I try to walk but my legs are SOO weak.. the pink things help me to stand and help me to get a drink again. Soon when i am warm, I am lifted up again, but I don't feel any fear, I am under the quiet ones chin, held there by the pink things.
I am set down on something warm, and OH WOW.. what was the bright thing... It goes off again, but then it stops..I am being fluffed up again, and the pink things make me feel warm!!
I am tired again, being born from an egg is hard work!
Time to sleep in the warm light, I hear other chicks and feel my foster sibs around me, and hear my sister and half sib nearby.
I was born yesterday 4/30/12, my "mom" went broody and my human stuffed a bunch of eggs under her. I am sure there were some she actually laid. But my "mom" was run out of her spot a few times, and more eggs were laid. I was one of those eggs.
After being moved, she wanted out of the pen/cage she was in, but then settled down and my four siblings were hatched. But after that, she didn't want to be a broody hen anymore. I and 3 other eggs got very cold.. and my human took us home and put us in the incubator, with little hope we might still be alive.
Well low and behold, I was, and was pipping IN the egg turner. She found me, and helped removed some shell and laid me in the egg on the wire and came back later, I was out, and in the far corner.
She took my sister and a probable sibling away from my "mom" before I was born, so they are in a brooder near me now.
She will be updating this thread daily with pictures.
This pic is from me yesterday, a bit after I was born. I got the name Slick, as my feathers still aren't very poofy!!
Read more about my day, later tonight or tomorrow!
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