Chicks keep scaring me!

[babyrnlc]

These chicks keep scaring me. We had one out on a towel. It was rolling around on the town and would not walk on its feet. I thought, oh no, something is wrong. I pick it up and it perches fine on me and then walks on the side of the chair. I put it back on the towel and it starts doing it again, then I realize it was "dust bathing" on the towel lol!

They are so funny! I am used to the dead chick look in the brooder when they are sleeping. Now they have to fake spraddle leg on me!

 

[columbiacritter]

I know what you mean. I've gotten more than a few frantics shouts from my DH when something is WRONG with his chicks!! LOL!

 

[nurseronda]

I'm brand new to chicks and I totally can relate to the scare they send when flopping down to rest, they look dead. I keep checking on them to see if they are breathing.

 

[noodleroo]

I'm right there with you; I came home from lunch the other day and one of my grown hens was on her side in the yard with her legs stretched out in 'rubber chicken' form. I thought riggamortis had already set in... but no, she was just streched out in the sun...little stinker...

 

[ChickadeeMom]

my chicks all do the rubber chicken in my brooder....it freaked me out the first few times now its normal and i get to laugh at everyone else who freaks out when my fuzzy butts do it.

 

[llnmaw]

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me too! Kind of like I did with my kids....

~L.

 

[Rubyegg]

Mine do the "Rubber Chicken" thing too and they scared me half to death the first time I saw it. At almost 3 weeks now the newest thing they do is trying to fall asleep on the perches like 'Big Girls'. Theyre heads droop....down, down, wobble a bit........down an half an inch further, down...........Cripes! I fell off! This is cheaper than an aquarium!