Baby chickies get the zoomies. Yours?

[erinchelsea]

My 8-day old girls have the zoomies too! Reminds me a bit of my 2-year old DS when he has to get his wiggles out!!!

 

[Sassafras]

My 4 day olds are doing "zoomies" too. They are fascinating aren't they?
I also love the "drumstick stretch" when they wake up from a nap and stretch a leg way out behind them!

 

[PapaChaz]

i too am guilty of sitting and just watching them. they are so cute and so much fun! zoomies is a great word to describe it! i had them in a brooder i made out of one of those 250 gallon water tanks in a cage. we had cut the top third off of it to use as a water trough for the horses, and had the top part left over. I made a cage top out of pvc and poultry wire, and they were soooo much fun to watch run around in there! Last week we built a new coop and run, with a removable divider in the coop and in the run, i've put it in the coop contest link if you'd like to see it, or click my page. anyway, moved the 8 lil girls out there a few days ago, they LOVE having so much more room for when they feel the need for speed, so they can zoom all they want! got their side of the run divided from the rest, next warm day they're gonna get to go out side!

 

[minichic]

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I totally forgot about that. Hysterical. My cats do the same thing.

 

[tarragon]

We have one chick named Johnny that we have nicknamed Johnny Whatcha Doin? because every time her sisters are on the other side of the brooder she zooms over and plows into the middle of the huddle. She's always last to the party, and seems to want to know what they are up to. Never mind whose head she steps on to get there. Love the term zoomies!

 

[Bonniejean83]

That is hilarious! I didn't know what to call it.... I have 5 chickies in my brooder, 2 Speckled Sussex and 3 Buff Orpingtons, and it's one of the Buffs who does it the most. My son keeps saying she's trying to fly! They are so much fun to watch, and they are getting more and more used to me and the whole family every day. We gave them some grit and mealworms for the 1st time yesterday and I think I'll have to get out the video camera next time we give them some. My familiy and friends would have a better idea of how much entertainment we now have in our home!

 

[britlitgal]

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One of my 6 day old Barred Rocks, Lydia, *sleeps* with her one leg stretched out...! It is the funniest thing! At first I was all freaked out, wondering if she had a leg problem...nope: it's just personality

 

[gryeyes]

I love it when they get the zoomies. Basically, I love everything they do (when they're healthy). I am one of those odd folks (maybe the only one??) who does NOT cover the brooder at all. I cheer 'em on when they manage to hop/flap to the edge of the brooder and look around. Then teeter along like a tight-rope walker, long the edge. If you watch them enough, you will see one or two actually use their heads and necks to pull themselves UP onto the roost or brooder edge, when they miscalculate the height of the jump they need to make. Wings a'flappin', scramble scramble, tuck head and neck into a shepherd's crook to get up there. Amazing.

The next stage after learning how to jump back into the brooder and then back up on the edge, over and over, is to risk a hop down to the floor OUT of the brooder. I rescue 'em at that stage, putting them back into the brooder, but cheering on their efforts.

After a while, they learn how to get back into the brooder on their own. Cracks me up to open the bathroom door to see a chick standing in the middle of the bath mat with a "Whut?!?! I'm not doing anything!" expression. Or discover a chick studying its reflection in the shiny chrome faucet.

Yup, they do poo around the place, but the bathroom is the easiest place to clean up.

 

[Raen]

Well, mine are in the living room; open floor plan house with four other pets...yeah, mine get covered!

 

[BWKatz]

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I don't cover mine either. Whenthey start to fly out thats when I know it's time to move them. Aren't they just the cutest. Can't wait to get my new ones.