The final days before hatching. The eyas will break the membranes in order to get to the aircell. For the very first time it will breath. The aircell contains enough oxygen for about 24 hours. As soon the eyas has used all the oxygen the neck begins to spasm and the eggtooth will pips through the eggshell. It takes the little one for over 24 hours to free it self from the shell.
" We need another, and a wiser, perhaps a more mystical,
concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice,
man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge
and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion.
*
We patronize them for their incompleteness,
for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err.
For the animal shall not be measured by man.
*
In a world older and more complete than ours
they move finished and complete,
gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained,
living by voices we shall never hear.
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They are not brethren.
They are not underlings.
They are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,
fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”
*
Henry Beston
With special thanks to:
Chris & Chad Saladin
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We have our first chick in Germany today as you predicted!!! Whoopie!
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