I wondered again if I should've tried to catch them and return them to wherever they belong. I don't know how long the chicks take to mature, or how much protein they need to do it, but in spite of the continued lack of frost, winter is coming soon, and the available bugs are diminishing quickly. But so far, so good. I was surprised to see them, that she had gotten them through a couple more nights and days without losing them to predators.
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Very cool. Thanks for the pictures. I'll keep my fingers crossed for them...
I saw the family again the next day--the chicks were noticeably bigger than the day before, astonishing growth rate, but they were also less well behaved, already tending to stray a bit so that when they left the yard one got left behind for a moment. The hen heard its plaintive cheeps and called it in.
nothing much cuter than a gamebird chick- little puffballs of feathers on very fast legs :)
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