It’s not every person who can find a bird egg and nurture it until it hatches. This can be especially challenging if the eggs are tiny.
When A Chick Called Albert got a call about a nest that had fallen between some garden chairs, he went to investigate. The tiny bird’s nest had gotten destroyed.
At first he thought it was empty but when he opened it he saw the smallest pair of eggs he had ever seen.
What kind of bird would come from such small eggs? He decided to try and hatch the eggs by incubating them. He had no idea if there was something inside the eggs, but thought it was worth a try.
He also wondered if he would be able to raise the baby birds that would hatch from them.
The eggs needed to be turned three times a day to ensure proper development of the possible embryo. After four days he checked for a life. Using a light he could see nothing in one of the eggs. But in the other…yes!
Then, one morning he opened the incubator and one of the eggs had hatched!
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