4 Weeks ago we started incubating chicken eggs, and on Tuesday, May 20th all but 3 hatched (exactly 3 weeks from when we started incubating them), those 3 didn't make it. Their were 5 black ones, 3 brown ones and the rest were yellow chicks (21 in total). After the chicks were dry we moved them from the incubator to a big cage in our living room where they spent the following week. They are so cute, and very a interesting to watch. On their fist day out of their egg they learn how to walk, so they would take a few steps on wobbly lags and then lay down as a pancake (as my brother calls it) for a few minuets before trying again. They are almost always walking around and they always take the way with all the chicks and just plow through. When they sleep they huddle together and sometimes a chick will decides he wants to be in the middle of that huddle so he'll jump right in the middle of it. When they were about 5 days old they started trying to fly, it's very funny to watch, they would fly from one side of the cage to the other and most likely land on another chick. Last Tuesday they had to go home, it was sad to see them go.
During that time we also had a caterpillar, who started out 1cm long and ended up 1 1/2" long. On May 10th it turned into a chrysalis and turned into and butterfly on May 19th. We didn't actually get to see it come out of it's chrysalis but it was amazing to see how a not so pretty caterpillar turned into a beautiful butterfly.
