Staff at Folly Farm, Begelly, made a very surprising discovery when it was found that two ostrich eggs had hatched, producing the farm's first ever baby ostriches! Folly Farm's two ostriches have produced numerous eggs in the past, but none have ever hatched. Said head keeper, Tim Morphew: "It's very difficult to hatch ostrich eggs naturally without incubators, and our incubators have been full of tortoise eggs so far so we didn't expect any ostriches! "However, we have been trying to produce baby ostrich, which is why we left the eggs with the parents even though they were outside, but it was only a vague hope. "We never expected anything to come of it and I never in my wildest dreams expected two to hatch, so I'm eggstatic!" Tim stumbled upon the young hatchlings when feeding the ostriches last Monday. He recounts: "I was near the eggs when I sensed a slight movement. I saw one of the eggs was cracked, but assumed the ostriches had stood on it and broken it, which has happened before. But then I saw the egg move! "My colleague, Lynsey, and I went in to have a closer look and found one chick half out of its shell, and another egg with a one-inch hole in it! "We decided to take the eggs inside as it's really too cold for the chicks to survive at the moment. We'll be keeping them inside until they're big enough to join their parents again." The babies have been given Swahili names from their native Africa, 'Mbuni' (meaning ostrich) and 'Mosi' (meaning first born). Ostriches are the biggest birds in the world at seven-feet tall and 150 kilos, and are thought to be one of the closest remaining relatives of the dinosaurs. Ostriches grow at an amazing 10-inches per month, so according to Tim the babies will be out in the paddock in the next couple of months. Until then, they can be seen in Folly Farm's pet centre.