Music and Magic from the Heart of Our Nature
Shell, here. So the baby seramas are no longer babies. I guess you might call them teenagers! Anyway, Santa figured out how to upload the photos she took back in the first days of the chicks’ lives outside the egg. Here are pictures of how they were then (we may have to wait another month til we can show you how they are now!).
Shell here.
Two chicks have hatched so far.
They’re fluffy. They’re tiny. They don’t mind us holding them (which we’re doing very, very carefully).
They’re curious.
They nibble on their food. One has figured out how to drink water.
They’re the cutest things on the planet.
Gosh, I just mean that!
Pictures forthcoming (Come on, Santa, upload those photos!)
Santa: I’m — ugh, trying! Just — ugh — tangled up in — ugh! — wires … Ack, how did my big toe get caught?
Annie: Huh?
Shell: Shell here again. To be continued!
Shell: This is Shell, here, with a live report from Uncle Clay’s barn, where a serama chick has just hatched from its egg! Yes, you heard correctly, folks. We have five eggs in an incubator–
Santa: My incubator! I raised the money for it —
Shell: Santa’s incubator. Right. And our serama eggs. Five of them–
Annie: They’re so cute–
Santa: The eggs, Annie? Or the chicks. Be specific. We’re on the internet here!
Annie (hands clasped): Both–!
Shell: Anyway, seramas are the smallest of bantam chickens —
Santa: –bantams are small chickens —
Shell: — and we collected some eggs from our breeding pair–
Annie: –And stuck them in the incubator, such a cute, warm, humid place —
Santa: We put them in the incubator 19 days ago. Now they’re hatching. Right on schedule.
Shell: Anyway, the first one hatched, and has tons of energy.
Annie: — It flopped around —
Shell: –And now the peck area of another egg is turning into a line–
Annie: — the chicks just peck a line all the way around the egg to get out of one end, kind of like a zipper —
Santa: No, it’s not.
Shell: Anyway, it’s all really exciting, and we’ll get back to you with videos and pictures. Stay tuned! Shell, signing off!
Santa: Is that “egg”-Shell? Ha ha!
Shell: Out!