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Miracle kiwi chick gains a video following
Topic Started: Nov 21 2010, 09:26 AM (79 Views)
Kahu
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Queenstown's new miracle baby is now under surveillance and at just six-days- old it is gaining quite a following.

Visitors to the Kiwi Birdlife Park have been gathering around a television set up in the park's cafe relaying surveillance monitoring footage of the park's new miracle chick born last Saturday.

The chick was hatched to a couple of irresponsible''teenage'' kiwi parents, normally too young to even breed let alone successfully hatch, who were stomping on the egg and using it as a pillow. Park staff intervened and miraculously an older male kiwi at the park sat on the egg for more than 50 days.

Wildlife manager Bridget Baynes said yesterday there has been so much interest in the baby bird, which is not allowed visitors and tucked away in an incubator, that staff arranged the surveillance footage.

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TexasCountryGal
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What a neat story. I particularly liked mom and pop being referred to as "irresponsible 'teenage' kiwi parents".

We raise homing pigeons and white ringneck doves. Making it from egg to squeaker to adulthood can be very difficult at times.

Unfortunately, I live in the middle of nowhere Texas and am on dial up, so I cannot watch videos.
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kiwi egg size
The kiwi egg is huge in proportion to the size of the bird ..... and usually the male incubates the egg.
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Thanks for the Wikipedia link. It was a very interesting read.

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Queenstown's miracle kiwi chick has died at nine days old, but staff at the Kiwi Birdlife Park have been buoyed by yet another egg laid by its unlikely teenage parents at the weekend.

Wildlife manager Bridget Baynes said staff were disappointed to find the little chick, which they had been caring for, dead in its incubator yesterday.

The cause of death was unknown at this stage, but as with all kiwi deaths, an autopsy would be carried out at Massey University in Palmerston North.

"It is a very sad day and, hopefully, they can shed some light on what happened," Ms Baynes said.

But on a brighter note the chick's teenage parents, an unlikely age to be producing fertile eggs at all, had been at it again, laying their third egg in less than three months.

"We're so lucky to have such good news at such a bad time."

Tamanui, a 5-year-old male, and Tawahi, a 2-year-old female, were an exceptionally young breeding pair, expected to take years to mate and they produced their first egg on August 23, within a week of their first date.

A second egg appeared on October 29 and now a third on Saturday, which was unbelievable, Ms Baynes said.

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