When I was about 7 or8 years old I always wondered why do the chicks crowd undertheir mother-hens feathers and wings. I figured out that ifcalfs suckle theirs mothers, lambs suckle their mothers so must the chicks do under thewings. When I went to school, and was about 10 the teacher was asking: do calves sucklet heir mothers? Yees! Do piglets suckle their mother? Yees! Do chickls suckle their mother? Nooo! only I said loudly Yees! The whole class and the teacher had a good laugh and I was explained that the chickcs are kept warm by their hen mother under her wings and inher feather! I remembered that forever!!!
A childhood belief about birds
others believed things like this
- I thought buffalo wings were wings from a buffalo, for years I looked for their wingsAnon
- I used to belive that an airplane was my mothers car. I don't no why. — Erilld
- I used to believe that grown-ups, mothers in particular really did have eyes in the backs of their heads.Anon
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- My mum told me and my brother that we were adopted and that our real mothers were witches. Thanks mum.Anon
- I used to think tiny little people were inside my mothers radio singing to me.Anon