The first young Apteryx hatched out accompanies the female bird, its mother, during the time the male bird is hatching out the second egg.
Of course, the eggs of my pet bird were never hatched out, and I was a greatly disappointed man.
Why, the beautiful white eggshell he hatched out of was dirty when he pipped it, and never in all his growing-up days did he see his mother or father really clean house.
No sooner had the sound of his whistle gone from the roof, than Mother Nomer came back to her houseless home--any spot doing as well as another, now that the twins were hatched and able to walk about.
These two birds that were hatched in the home that was more than seventy years old lived to see the end of the war the young soldiers were training for when they took their first flights together near the shore of the same lake.
As Mrs. Poyser says, I'd have to be hatched over again andhatched different before I could change it.
Although our American cuckoos have not, as a general thing, the bad habits of those of Europe, we have another very common bird which is hatched and brought up by strangers.
As soon as the young cuckoo is hatched he begins to grow very fast, and as he is larger and stronger than the other nestlings, he manages to get the lion's share of the food which the old birds bring to the nest.
It is necessary, as we have seen, that this should be hatchedbefore the other eggs; for if it were not, the old birds would stop sitting and allow it to become cold as soon as their own young were hatched.
A rumour therefore sprang up, that the great fire resulted from a wicked plot, hatched by Jesuits, for the destruction of an heretical city.
Accordingly a rumour was soon brought before the House of Commons of a horrible plot hatched by the papists to burn London to the ground.
The ducklings are hatched from the first of April up to about the first of August.
For this purpose the eggs from the ducks that are two or three years old are used, and when hatched the ducklings from those eggs are marked by punching a small round hole in the web of the feet.
By the time the price begins to decline she has marketed all the earlier ones that she cares to spare, and the later-hatched she keeps growing till mid-winter, when fine ducks are again scarce and the price goes up.
What may be described as a variety of this technique, but occurring in the red glazed wares, is a method of decoration in rows of linear incised patterns, usually in small rectangular panels of hatched lines.
The eggs are hatched at several periods in the ovary, from which the little ones issue two or three at a time.
The Nautilus carries its egg in the shell, and the little ones are also hatched in this floating cradle.
Remarking on a former paper, in which he had shown that the embryo hatched from the egg of a Planaria was a true polygastric animalcule of the genus Paramecium, he adds, that in former writers a link was wanting, viz.
They were hatched in thirty-six hours, while such as were left in the stream of the pond, in a temperature of 41°, did not hatch until the termination of seven subsequent days.
He had heard that turtles laid their eggs on the sandy beaches of these islands, but whether he should find them at this time of the year, or whether the young turtles had been hatchedand crawled away, he was utterly ignorant.
They are allied to the gallinaceous birds but differ from them in never sitting upon their eggs, which, thus buried in vegetable rubbish, are left to be hatched by heat and fermentation.
A female spider's eggs had just hatched so Selvan and I did the separation of the babies into individual containers.
Maximum three juveniles are hatched from each cocoon.
As the tern's eggs were within a short time of being hatched we broke all we saw in order to ensure some newly-laid ones in a day or two.
She's up in the cherry tree; or perhaps it's a he, and probably there's a nest somewhere with dear little fellows just hatched out.
Divisions and distinctions are of shorter date than election; let not them therefore that are but momentary, and hatched in darkness, break that bond that is from everlasting.
When first hatched they are about an inch in length, and during the first year are called "Parr.
Self-control was rewarded, as the other egg hatched and we learned a secret of the juvenile plumage of these birds, while the songs of the cadouries, as the Indians call them, were heard month after month at our windows.
Of reptiles there was a broken skull of some lizard, long since dead, and the eggshell of a lizardling which had hatched and gone forth upon his mission into the jungle.
Nests are often found with a single fresh egg in each, another partly incubated, a newly-hatched bird, and one or more young still further advanced.
But whether the owners of the nest would have hatched the intruders or not, we cannot say, as its contents were rifled shortly after the discovery had been made.
When the eggs are hatched the event is hailed with demonstrations of joy, and the parents watch over their helpless charges with more than ordinary solicitude.
On this occasion it was discovered that when the young were all hatched together, the duty of feeding devolved upon one or the other parent, both never being absent from the nest at the same time.
The eggs had certainly been spirited away, but whether they were afterwards returned and successfully hatched or not, he was unable to say.
Suffice it to say, the eggs were laid, the young hatched and successfully reared, and the trustful pair maintained their serenity and fearlessness till the last.
And yet it seems absurd that a hundred thousand blackbirds should be hatched every year just for cats to eat.
And, after all, the wholesale robbery of their nests does not reduce their myriads, for more than enough are hatched every year to fill the gaps caused by death.
Here and there are broods hatched too young to join in the great Hegira, and here and there nestlings with some infirmity that unfits them for boisterous travel.
And now he was distracted, like a bantam hen which has hatchedout a swan and lost it.
The larvae are hatched from the eggs of different kinds of moths that hover over the tobacco fields at night.
He's like a newly-hatched chicken, all fluffy and clean, a little batty-eyed and groggy but intensely curious about everything.
And yet here, at the first sign of danger, I found myself flying to his defense as Jack Ballard would have it, like a hen that had hatched out a duckling.
He had seen birdshatched from their eggs and had marveled at it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hatched" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
