Life & death

Yesterday I mentioned life and death as a part of our summer. This summer we have watched, learned and been in awe while young birds, lambs and chickens was being born or hatched. A couple of our lambs died, even though we made the strongest efforts to make them survive. But some also lived and grew healthy and strong. We learned, that most of the time everything goes according to Mother Natures plans, but also that we have to be careful and alert, in order to know the right time to intervene.

This little one was unable to peck its way througt the egg shell, and needed a little help …

The human placenta is sometimes compared to the Tree of Life. The egg has a little Tree of Life inside the shell. You can see whats left of it to the left in the shell.
My daughter had to pull a bit to loosen the umbilical cord.

Notice the tiny white and twisted umbilical cord, attached to the remnants of the egg yolk.

Right after this picture was taken, we put the »newborn« back under the hen, and after a couple of hours it began to unfold from its eggish form.

And here she is, about a week after the intervention, with the happy midwife.

* As mentioned yesterday, I've been thinking about reducing the time spent on blogging. I've decided to try an only english version for a while. Everyone reads english, right?
I'm perfectly aware of the fact that my english is far from being perfect, but you guys seem both tolerant and forgiving about that. And hopefully I can benefit from the exercise :)