Do baby chicks just sleep really sound??

[AnitaElliott123]

I have a Frizzle that is a week old...this morning I checked on her and she was fine...up running around in the brooder and eating but when I went back in there to check on her a couple of hours later she looked nearly dead! Like head turned to the side and just flattened out. I picked her up and she just fell back over...but I could tell she was breathing. So I went out and had a quick errand I needed to run and came back expecting her to have passed...I mean I had already made plans to go to the next town over and pick up another Frizzle...so I go in and check on her and she is up running around and has been fine ever since. That has been 5 or 6 hours ago...so my question is was she just so sound asleep?

 

[jeepguy982001]

sounds like it to me. Mine would go from running like crazy to almost instant nap time.

 

[Mountain Peeps]

sounds like it to me. Mine would go from running like crazy to almost instant nap time.

Mine too!!

 

[gander007]

Just like a baby

I went in to check on mine a cool dozen and I thought aaaaaa noooo
and I hit the table kind of up set and off and running all of them so I
just came back in the house to get a drink ya them baby's can just
scare the day lights out of ya ol right .....

 

[stephsgirls]

Not our pekins, I worry about the fact that they don't sleep enough! I can hear them when I lock up for bed, and she I wake in the am!

 

[SXWWK]

I have 6 female Goldline hybrids, 2 week old and those chicks are hilarious.... they run around like mad things and will sleep in the strangest floppy positions and just crash out like they are all dead... the best time waster in the world to watch a batch of sleeping chicks laying all over the floor! Yet my 2 Orpingtons were crazy from day 1 and hardly ever slept... there must be a difference in breeds, cause my little ladies are so chilled out!

 

[flickerloo]

I found mine crashed out in the weirdest places and positions. Sometimes it seemed like they would fall asleep while eating! Come to think of it, my kids did that too when they were babies!

 

[gander007]

That is true my kids did the same thing .....