September 28th, 2008 by Gypsy

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September 28th, 2008 by Gypsy

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September 18th, 2008 by Gypsy

13/04/08 - Egg hatched chick squeaking in the nest.

Today we were out cleaning the cages and doing some minor maintenance work after dealing with a small rat epidemic (One of the joys of breeding birds in the country) and we could here some squeaking, at first it didn’t register because the only pair we knew were sitting on eggs were Marlene & Boycee, and seeing as Marlene was an ex pet that we recently replaced her predecessor (Marlene) with after dying suddenly we didn’t expect the eggs to be any good let alone for her to know what to do so soon.

Well after much deliberation and discussion we ran inside to look at the camera inside the box, low and behold there was a cute little pink chick in the nestbox and three unhatched eggs (We know they’ll never hatch as we candled them and they were unfertile).

We believe the chick was about 3 days old so we estimate it’s ‘birthday’ is 10th April 2008 which means it should be ready to come into the house on 1st May 2008, pictures to follow shortly, I have some on my phone with a few videos, in the meantime you will have to take our word that the chick is doing well and Mummy and Daddy are doing a great job of looking after it!!