yonfi could actually remember such a scene from their chicken coop in the farmlands , where hed been to feed the hens while one of them was hatching her eggs ; she was ruffling her feathers as the movement beneath her increased and the first muffled peeps were heard , uttered by the litter of chicks that soon squirmed free from the nest , adorable little balls of yellowish fluff yonfi couldnt help snatching and holding inside his cupped hands .