Do your 8-week-old chicks do this?

[bawkbawkbawk]

They're still trying to sleep underneath her: http://polloplayer.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/chickens-not-so-little/

It looks so uncomfortable!

 

[chicken-whisperer]

Loved you pictures. I have a little white Silkie broody hen that hatches my Black Copper Marans eggs and the chicks want to get under her when they are bigger than she is.

 

[debid]

Hilarious!

My silly EE cockerel was NOT raised by a broody but he was raised with a few pullets that were two weeks older. He chose the largest one and started trying to get under her. I was still seeing this behavior from him at 12 weeks even though he was pretty much the same size as they were by then!

 

[tiny529]

*laugh* That is too funny! One of my EE's seems to instinctively miss being under a Momma, even though she's never been. Even tonight, she kept trying to push her head under her same aged (all 7 weeks) flock-mates. This particular EE also likes to burrow in my hair, which I haven't let her do at all since she moved out to the coop.

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

Tiny - my Belgian Mille Fleur D'Uccle chick was trying to get under the Black Copper Marans tonight - same thing!

Here was tonight's ultimate line-up: my BO is rueing the day she went broody!

 

[SilkieSerenade]

One of my full grown EE hens still tries to get underneath my darling little Silkie at night. Even though she's twice the poor things size.

 

[shepan2]

Soooo cute!

 

[Prisserbabe]

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[stormylady]

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Yes I have 9 week old silkie chicks that still sleep under and ontop of Momma silkie.

 

[bogwitch]

That is the cutest, funniest thing I have seen in awhile. I have children but I am not super maternal, so I can relate to poor Hope.