Jeffery Hen - The Twins Hatch

Wintertime was almost over in Chickenville. It was one of those days that was called Indian summer or something like that. It was so warm that Jeffery Hen decided it was alright to just leave her nest and egg for a while and go outside and see what was going on for the first time in a while.

While she was outside Vicki Hen's husband told her he wanted to let her be the first one to know that the twins were hatching. He also told her to hurry over there before he announced it to everybody.

Jeffery Hen hollered for Bear; when Bear came she told him to tell his daddy where she was and to make sure nothing happened to her egg. Bear hurried as fast as he could to tell Roo about Jeffery Hen going to watch the hatching of the twins!

Roo hurried back to the nest to make sure the egg would stay warm. Roo also thought the day was extra warm and that the egg would remain warm enough; but he did not want to take any chances, so we covered it with the corn shucks and tried to sit in the nest. He was afraid he would break the egg so he decided to just wait there till Jeffery Hen got back home.

Quick as Jeffery Hen entered Vicki Hen's hen house, her husband got upon the roof of their house and started to announce the hatching of the twins. When he did it seemed like all of the hens in the neighborhood wanted to watch.

Jeffery Hen got to watch the first chick finish coming out of its shell, when all of the other hens came in it was already out. The other egg was just sitting there, not even moving. Vicki Hen picked it up to see if she could hear anything in it. She said, "Well, I can hear the heart beating inside of it."

They looked the egg over and they didn't even see a crack or nothing in it. Jeffery Hen was so disappointed cause she wanted to see how the chick's first crack into this world.

She started to worry about her own egg. Jeffery Hen said, "I'm going back home to see how things are there. I'll be back very shortly."

When Jeffery Hen got home; she sees Roo sitting close to the nest. She got up in her nest to make sure it was warm. She told Roo about the other egg not hatching.

When she thought that the egg was warm enough for a while, she told Roo she was going back over there to see if the egg had cracked yet. This time when she got there all of the other hens has given up on the other egg and had left.

Vicki Hen picked the egg up again and turned it. This time when she turned it she noticed a little bitty crack in the shell. She said, "Jeffery Hen, look here!" Jeffery Hen moved closer to the egg and saw a little crack in it. Vicki Hen laid the egg back down and soon they saw a little tooth pick out of the shell.

The other little chick was sound asleep in the nest beside of the egg. She watched the crack get bigger and bigger, soon the shell has completely broken open and the chick finally came out of the shell. The baby chick laid down beside of its brother and fell sound asleep.

"Two babies in one day.", said Jeffery Hen.

Jeffery Hen went back home to tell Roo about the twins. Roo was glad to see her and told her he was glad she got to see the hatching. She got back into her nest and when she did, she picked up her egg to make sure she hears the baby's heartbeat. When she heard it she knew it was all right and put it back down.

Posted by Aunt Meaner