If disaster should befall the larger chick the parent can switch to feeding the youngest and it will exhibit a constant growth curve from the day of active feeding. From Wikipedia
Depends, a repo stays on credit for 7 years, and a bankruptcy stays for 11 years, after you have paid off a debt and they have received payment it should be taken of immediately, but you may want to get a free credit report and check and if it is still there call them and ask them about it.
And in many states the statute of limitations is 10 â 20 years! If it was entered in 2005 and you pay it then it should come off your credit reports once it is updated to reflect that it is paid, because PAID judgments are reported for seven years from the date they were entered by the court.