Thank you for reading this comic about a little dinosaur and her parents waiting to get to meet her little siblings, while she also grows her full plumage.
Some thoughts on raptor eggs, which I applied here:
Birds have different ways of incubating their eggs, most common being brooding with body heat, and I think that's the case for JP/W raptors, too, or at least the species they're clones of. As (now only most of) the clones lack feathers, but perhaps have instincts for handling the incubation as if they did have feathers, I've had them substitute feather fluff with extra hay and moss for the insulation (Skye could of course brood them using her feathers, but she is still a child herself and wouldn't have the patience, though the nest bedding probably does include quite a few of her shed down feathers, too). Fossil finds indicate heavier Mesozoic dinosaurs sat at the center of a ring of their eggs to incubate them without risk of crushing them, rather than directly on top of them like the relatively light present-day birds. Blue and Indo's clutch is small enough it doesn't make a ring, but they're both pretty big birbs, so they sit curled around their eggs, tucking them close to where their thinner belly scales best allow transferring body heat.
Their nest is bigger than the one Skye hatched in. Given that she was a surprise, her parents hadn't prepared a nest for her in advance, or even looked for a good place to nest in, so they ended up incubating her a bit wherever and moved the nest around until they found a spot safe enough to raise a baby. This time they have a nest big enough to fit the whole family, no matter which of the parents is on brooding duty.
Who incubates the eggs again varies between different birds (only the female, both, or only the male, are all possibilities, as is the parents having help from their grown-up chicks from a previous clutch). I had them split the job about 50/50 because it was the most fun for me to draw, and I've had other JP/W raptors do so in my other raptor AU (where, among other arrangements, three adults all bonded to each other incubate their two simultaneous clutches in rotating shifts). I'd never actually drawn Blue brooding before, just Indo (not that you can see clearly that's what's going on there), but we'll assume she brooded Skye, too.
The hatching also varies a lot between different birds. Bird eggs aren't laid at the same time, but one at a time and usually have a day or a few days between eggs in in the same clutch, as they're formed one at a time and take a day or longer to make. Some birds start incubating as soon as they have one egg, even if the clutch will be bigger than that, some start after a few more eggs, some after the full clutch has been laid. The former two usually lead to the young hatching at different times, with the oldest and youngest chick having a several days' or over a week's age difference. I think JP/W raptor chicks would hatch on the same day, with incubation having started after they have all their eggs, for a couple of reasons.
One is that in Jurassic Park 3 we see what are confirmed to be raptor nests in the wild, each brimming with eggs but no one brooding them. I think they haven't started yet. Another is that JP/W raptor chicks hatch at a place on the spectrum of altricial and precocial newborns where imprinting is a thing, meaning they're capable of venturing outside the nest relatively soon after hatching, though they still require parental care. So, for that purpose, it's practical for the hatching of the babies to also be over relatively soon once it's started.
This is, to be clear, speculation about the fictional dromaeosaurid known as Velociraptor in the alternate universe Jurassic Park takes place in. Real life dromaeosaurids' nesting habits may have been different (and could have varied between different species), and making educated guesses on that isn't my area of expertice, but I think this makes sense for the animals seen in JP/W canon.
Though speaking of real dromaeosaurids, I've seen Deinonychus antirrhopus, the raptor JP/W raptors were originally modeled after (rather than Velociraptor mongoliensis, which only contributed the name), depicted as having had bluish eggs with brown spots before (Mehikorva here has pilfered a shard from a Deino nest), but I had Blue's eggs be white, because the JP3 raptors' eggs are.
Anyway, eggs! \o/ *:･ﾟ✧*
I'll draw the hatchlings soon!
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