Do chicks lie down (really!) to sleep??

[acsteele]

they remind me of wind up toys, when the spring winds down they stop and snooze, sometimes in mid stride

 

[Stewarts]

If they go face-first into anything - food, water or bedding, I gently pick them up and move them. Sometimes they are so pooped out they don't even wake. Note - a chicks neck muscles are not weak, if they were they would not be able to tear around the way they do. Its just how they sleep.

 

[birdgirl11]

Last year I even had one that was laying on its back with it's little legs stretched up in the air!!

 

[Stewarts]

There like cats, they sleep in all kinds of weird positions!

 

[agadams]

Thanks for all the stories. I have to shake them or move their beds to make sure they are ok. It's is very strange but glad it's normal.

 

[Maikan]

My chicks are all laid flat out snoring at the moment, they always make me laugh when they sleep like this in a big fluffy line of chicks under the brooder in the brood box. But if I rustle the chick crumb sack man they all jump up real quick and come running for food.

They also look real funny when they dust bath in the shavings. I put some pebbles in there shallow water container so no one can drown should the fall asleep near it. All in all they are pretty darn cute n fluffy at this stage.

 

[Lady Grey]

Darn chicks scared me stiff the first time I saw them stretched out! I had just lost a duck and a goose before I got them, so I was paranoid and upset already-- I just grabbed a chick as fast as I could, and the little stinker chirped at me like I was crazy!! Lol. Hope I never fall for that again!