Early this morning, Anne laid an egg!
Below you see the happy couple side-by-side, celebrating their achievement with a spot of mutual feather preening.
The egg is about the size of my thumbnail. What will likely happen is Anne will lay one egg a day til her brood is complete - usually they consist of four to six eggs. After that, she'll sit on them for about two weeks til they hatch.
If they hatch!
When birds mate, they do it very quickly. So, I can't really be sure that these eggs are fertilized, seeing as how I never actually witnessed Henry and Anne being amourous.
If the eggs aren't fertilized, it's best to remove them after about three weeks. Otherwise the little hen will sit and sit, all for naught.
5 comments:
Aww, congratulations to Henry, Anne, and you for the (potential) new addition to your family! :)
Do you prefer grandma or nana? :)
That is about the cutest thing ever.
Eeee! I'm so excited for it to hatch now! I want to see baby biiiirdies at your house :D
That's pretty freaking awesome. I hope there are baby birdies!
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