confession time!

[Sonia]

Who else does 'wierd' things with/for their birds? Its baby season here and I swear I've got some strange critter in bed with me every night. I've got one yokhama chick and one sumatra chick that always manage to figure a way to get in a window or out of the brooder and end up in bed with me. Rather than get up multiple times I. Just snuggle up and enjoy it. Tonight I'm joined by a peachick...anyone else have a confession? I know I can't be the only one that is a bit...unconventional

 

[scratch'n'peck]

Although I haven't kept a chick in bed over night, chicks and goslings have visited the bed for cuddle and play time. The goslings in particular required some old towels to visit the bed though. We have a cat so chicks are not allowed to sneak out of the brooder.

 

[Dowie]

Who else does 'wierd' things with/for their birds? Its baby season here and I swear I've got some strange critter in bed with me every night. I've got one yokhama chick and one sumatra chick that always manage to figure a way to get in a window or out of the brooder and end up in bed with me. Rather than get up multiple times I. Just snuggle up and enjoy it. Tonight I'm joined by a peachick...anyone else have a confession? I know I can't be the only one that is a bit...unconventional

So jealous! Aren't you afraid of squishing them though?

 

[Sonia]

I tend to not move much once asleep and have yet to squish one. Most times I'm already in bed sleeping when one of the little brats either escapes or flies in a window and I don't even know till morning that I've got compamy lol.

 

[gryeyes]

I have outside flock chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese. I also have babies in brooders AND an official House Silkie. She is raising her second brood of four chicks she hatched in the house. Her first four "chicks" (all flock eggs, because hers are not fertilized) are outside all day and come in to sleep on the day bed in the "Nursery" at night.

Three hens from the outside flock come inside every day to lay their eggs in an empty brooder bin. One gal lays her egg in what was originally the clean laundry bin...

One of the brooder chicks got out and went exploring; it ended up sleeping on my shoulder as I watched TV from my recliner.

My cat and two small dogs are quite used to having a full grown chicken snuggle up against them on a blanket over the back of the sofa.

I feel lucky and blessed.

 

[Sonia]

Glad to know I'm not the only one lol. I used to worry about the tiny chicks because we have three cats but they could care less about the birds. I've even got videos of my male running away from a banty chick...wimp!

 

[Cleoandclover]

I've smuggled my Serama hen May into school several times. She also perches on my headboard at night. Once I smuggled her into a hotel in Oregon(she wore a diaper at all times, plus I was very careful to make sure she didn't leave fathers or cause trouble.). I'll take her down to the park so she can run around and dust bathe(although the other chickens aren't calm enough to be allowed to be off leash so close to a busy street. But May is not only calm and fearless to a fault, but I've taught her basic commands(comes of having a mother who trains service dogs for a living). She goes pretty much everywhere I can get her to be allowed.