Full - For A Short Time In the afternoon of their fifth day, the Cam catches a shot of the two chicks, crops bulging, contently piled in a heap, snoozing while their bodies digest and utilize the food. Peanut, of course, is down at the feed dish, eating yet more of the soak seed and nestling food mix with which she is raising her youngsters. Can you see how these bulging crops could look like a growth of some sort to an inexperienced eye?

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