Great Horned owl eggs are the size of a chicken egg. Their mom sits on them and in four weeks the baby starts to hatch. After the first one hatches another one will hatch in three or four days. This keeps on going until all the eggs are hatched.
When the owlet is born they are covered with white feathers that are called down. When they are forty five days old they start to grow new feathers.
When the baby owlets are born, they are helpless. They are the size of a chick, but they cannot do anything.A baby chick can walk around and get its food, but an owlet just stays in the nest and just cries for its parents. It cannot even fly.
The parents go out every night and look for food for the babies. The babies cry to their parents to come with the food. When the owlets are five weeks old they can start going out of the nest. At ten weeks old they try to fly. The parents bring them food and sit on a nearby branch. The babies try to fly to the food, but often they fall. Soon they are able to fly by themselves.
When the Great Horned Owls are half a year old they stay nearby the nest. They have very sharp talons so they could hop from branch to branch. However, they are still wobbly a little, but they live on their own.
