Parents, on duty in turn, kept the egg warm and brooded the tiny chick for the first few days after hatching.

There was a conjuror too, doing tricks with tiny chicks,.

Likewise, the traditional foods of Easter - from the dyed eggs and tiny chicks in the Easter basket to the lamb and young peas served at dinner - signal hope in the future.

I was a tiny chick in a vast eggshell.

I do like the idea of being with these girls though... adorable tiny Asian chicks that could drink the biggest guy in the room under the bar.

At that time, the eggs start to hatch, so parents and tiny chicks are visible until the beginning of March.

A tiny chick emerged slowly from its egg before the astonished children.

Dresses have a tiny chick embroidered on them.

A vulture looms over one corner of her studio, its wings outstretched; on the opposite wall, dozens of tiny dead chicks scream, open-mouthed, from inside a large, open coffin, its lid removed.

Very soon she came out, trotted after a group of tiny chicks which were pecking happily among the cobbles and gently scooped one up.