Dear friends I am Edwin Rony , of grade 8, Christ the King public school Malleshwaram Bangalore. I am very excited to share with you a very interesting and emotional experience we had during my school annual holidays.
Me and my family travelled from Bangalore to Kerala to visit our grandparents and relatives in our home town Erumely which is located near the famous pilgrim centre Sabarimala which is surrounded by dense forest.
One day while playing with siblings in my home town, the ball with which we were playing skipped out of the house wall and landed on the rubber tree plantations near by. We were searching for the ball in the plantation for a long time and suddenly one of siblings shouted he had found a nest near the tree roots with eggs on it.
We ran to our grandparents and informed them about the nest. They came and inspected the eggs and told us that these are the eggs of Jungle fowl and instructed us to stay away from the nest so the wild life will not be disturbed . We obeyed them and waited for the parent Jungle fowl to protect the nest from predators.
Our Grandparents explained us about Jungle fowl, the Junglefowl are one of the four extinct species of bird from the genus Gallus in the order Galliformes. They occur in parts of South and Southeast Asia including India and Sri Lanka.
One of the species in this genus, the red junglefowl, is of historical importance as the direct ancestor of the domestic chicken. Junglefowl are omnivorous, eating a variety of leaves, plant matter, invertebrates, and occasionally mice and frogs.
They are large birds, with colourful plumage in males, but are often difficult to see in the dense vegetation they inhabit.
We waited two days but the parent of the Jungle Fowl did not arrive, so we arranged a bird’s nest of earthen pot and filled them with haystack and kept all the eggs for incubation with the help of 5Watts lamp.
Everyday we checked for the eggs to hatch. Then after 10 days to our surprise one of the eggs hatched and a chick was born.
We are all very excited first time in our lives watching a bird hatch, we named the bird Chikku. Raising a wild chicken involves mimicking their natural environment while providing secure, optional shelter and supplemental feed to encourage them to stay nearby.
My grandparents arranged proper environment for Chikku to grow. We also helped them in raising Chikku. While coming back to Bangalore, Chikku bid us an emotional farewell and our grandparents promised us to take good care of Chikku, Hope to see you soon bye Chikku !!
