Today I discovered...

...that I have accidentally taught my chicks to come when they hear me singing a song whose tune, such as it is, was made up by me, and whose lyrics consist entirely of "chickie chickie dumpling." I hadn't even consciously noticed I was singing it until I started up and they all rushed out from under the hot plate.

They grow so fast! They have wee wings with feathers! Some of them have started doing a sort of wing-flitter-assisted weightless leaping around the chest I'm keeping them in. I need to put a wire top over it ASAP.

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