Up Island Eggs
Baby chick monitor?
posted Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Tom is dashing to Vineyard Haven to the only store on this island that has a baby monitor. The new chicks got in trouble this morning with one lost chick, and 3 potential moms trying to find it and getting in each other's way and getting very upset, and another couple of unhappy chicks dashing around trying to keep up with their frantic Silkie mom. The newly hatched one had gotten behind a nest box and couldn't get out and the moms (both foster Silkie mom, setting-on-eggs-mom-wannabes, and supposed-to-be-helping-but-really-vacationing-moms) couldn't get to it. I picked it up, placed it under the Silkie, got everyone else calmed down and back sitting on eggs. There are 3, maybe 4, chicks now.
We measured the distance to the coop and the only baby monitor we can find for sale on island ought to reach. But will it be sensitive enough so that I can hear a chick distress cry and go do something about it? We will see, I'll let you know.
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