Hatching plans...

Introducing McNugget...

McNugget, front centre, Benedict, left rear, and Scramble,
front left inside the egg.

McNugget's slightly younger sibling Benedict...

Benedict, front left, and Scramble, centre rear inside the
egg.

Scramble, still hatching...

Scramble, and shell.

And their estranged sibling Colonel...

Colonel

Colonel was fostered as an egg to a broody bantam who, after months of trying to hatch a golf ball, was excited to have a viable egg. Two days before Colonel hatched, a chicken coup took place, and Colonel's foster mother was evicted from the nesting box. A larger, less patient bantam seized the opportunity to go broody just before the egg hatched. Colonel now lives with two mothers, inside the chicken coop.

Colonel's siblings were hatched inside an incubator, and are currently sharing a bedroom in the farmhouse. Mr Farmer is of the opinion that they ought to be sent to live in foster care with Colonel, despite the slightly unstable family situation.