Daddy, Daddy! As always, the chicks greet their father with expressions of hunger - when you grow this fast, you need to eat a LOT of food! Luckily for Dolly, the help Dan offers saves her a lot of stress and strain. After all, when only one parent is feeding, it is more work, and often this means the chicks will grow a little more slowly, too, not having as much food to put to good use, in growth. Baby birds are very opportunistic that way - the more they get to eat, the faster they will grow...

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