very early in the morning the rooster sends out his call and the chickens begin to wake they have been sleeping on their roofs holding with their toes their sharp beaks chickens have no teeth so they swallow their food whole but chickens also eat gravel and grit which helps grind up the hard food in their now let us watch this him as she goes for a drink she takes a big bowl of water and lifts up her head so the water going to run down her throat the chickens eyes are on the sides of its head let him look at us first with one eye and then with the other shall we see where little ticks come from the farmer's boy carefully gathers the freshly laid eggs from the nests where their hands laid them inside the in get better their eggs are kept warm a week goes by every day the eggs are turned the palm are now it takes an egg to see whether a chick is beginning to form in it inside the week old egg at the top we see a black speck which is a little chicks i am now nearly three weeks after this egg was put into the incubate or the tiny chick is almost ready to come out the chick begins pecking a hole through the shell with its sharp beak now the shell is well broken and the baby chick rest the shell is almost ready to break apart another rest before breaking through see the big the chick uses in pecking its way out nearly out at last but still very weak it's hard work getting all the way out some of these other chicks have been out of their shells for a while and they run about in the incubate or draw are this chick took all day to peck its way out of the shell a day more in the warm incubate or for the chicks to dry out and farmer brown is ready to take them across to the broader house these have been out of the eggs for two weeks their tail feathers are growing to two months old chickens and almost grown up some farmers let him sit on eggs until they have to take mother hen keep her baby chicks warm out from under mother's wing and not the mother and her chicks hidden in the middle of this bush is a mother duck sitting on her eggs then you see her for something to eat her eggs are well hidden while she is away nearby  they don't need any lessons in swimming but they still swim close to their mother duck his web seat which makes good paddles for swimming these ducklings have no feathers yet only soft fluffy down mother duck scoops up food from the water and her broad flat bill the ducklings to dive down for bits of food from the bottom of the pond here they find seeds and plants and tiny bugs to eat inside their flat bales are ridges which hold the food back while the water strains out here we see the ridges along the edges of a duck's bill who would know that this was the ducklings first day on the water but until their brothers grow they must not stand long they are glad to go out now and waddle after their mother through the grass this duckling will get lost but he hears his mother call and runs to catch up with her now for a feast after mother duck to make sure all her babies are here she scoops up the grain with her closely behind their mothers they go back to their well hidden nest in the bush again on another nail in farmer brown's barn is a family of what father gander has been watching over them were hatched now for something to eat maybe goslings are bigger than ducklings the baby chicks these guys wings are two weeks old and they know their way about over the garden past they go to the green meadow only a small flock of turkey cocks and hands are kept on this  but farmer brown keeps a large flock of younger turkeys and season them well so they will grow large for thanksgiving it is early evening and the chickens have already gone to roost farmer brown closes the chicken house door the gander watches over his family on their nest in the barn mother duck and her ducklings are safe in their nest well hidden in the bush the turkeys are the very last to go to sleep when it gets dark they go to their roost in the branches of tree and all  quiet on the farm for the night