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.
1 Charge-offs are items listed as âuncollectibleâ. The credit report drop-off time is seven years plus 180 days or six months from date of the delinquency, not from the date of the charge-off.  All civil suits and some criminal arrests, as long as the statute of limitations is not longer than seven years.