Do you deliberately scare your chicks?

[Goose and Fig]

I do! I have never gotten over the way they sleep like they're dead. It totally freaks me out. Every time I walk by the brooder and they're doing it, I sneak up and yell "baby chickens!!!!" so they all pop up and run around.

I hope I'm not being mean by doing it. Almost all my birds grow up to be ridiculously friendly.

 

[Ms.FuzzyButts]

It sounds so wrong and super mean.... But,

 

[Mandalina]

I personally don't need to, my kids do that more than enough LOL.

 

[debilorrah]

I thought my entire flock had died today - I turned on the hose that is in the coop with the wide sprayer on it. They ALL jumped up.

 

[CalebtheChicken]

I love watching chicks run around before they have their wing feathers, They flap the little stubs wildly while they run. It's even better when there's 28 chicks running around like that. It sounds like an earthquake!!!

 

[Brindlebtch]

Sounds like they are gonna have the ASPCA on speed dial on their little chicken phones!

 

[PineappleMama]

Naw, but I do REALLY get a kick out of starling cats... maybe because it's such a challenge to sneak up on one? Maybe because of the way they spaz. I don't know, but my inner mischievous child just can't resist.

 

[Miss Sebright]

I often come up behind my polish hen, Hippie Chick, and pet her. Poor dear, it's just to cute when she jumps six inches in the air and turns around.

 

[pdsavage]

I never try and scare any animal makes em stress,they do get scared about things but I never do it on purpose.
Now I do whistle some times in the pens if I think I hear a sneeze,it makes em all stop and be quite so I can hear if there is any sickness.

 

[chickensioux]

Never, seems mean.