How chicks sleep...:D

[gogoalie]

It's just too cute...they'll all lay 'round lil' lil' dogs all spread out, wings & legs, all over each other, & some on the outside of the heap just look dead! Pretty neat to see!

 

[Shannon33]

It is cute once you KNOW about it, lol. First time I had chicks though, I walked in the room and thought half of them really were dead!

 

[EncinoMan]

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When I got my chicks home, they were exhausted from peeping away during the 40 minute drive home. I gently placed them in the brooder, and my White Leghorn peeped once and then just faceplanted!! Within seconds all three were sprawled out and motionless, it looked like a chicken reenactment of the Jonestown Massacre! But I looked closely and saw they were breathing...after a ten minute nap under the heat lamp, all three were happily eating and drinking.

 

[<3ChickenForever]

Here's when my babies were 5 days old

 

[cmom]

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I know what you mean.

 

[chickmama320]

I LOVE the one in the feeder! Too cute!

 

[Jencleg]

What's I love is how limp they are when you pick them up after they get all sleepy! Sometimes I am late putting them in the coop & when you go to grab them...they just let you! Mine are so sweet when they are 1/2 asleep! Also expains why they are such a target for predators @ night though!

 

[AKsmama]

It always cracked me up to watch them at night. They'd be all piled up asleep, and one would jump, and then there'd be a little chick ripple as the others did the same thing and settled back down. Very amusing

 

[theoldchick]

My husband swore all of mine were dying when he saw them sleeping. He kept nudging them to see if they would move.

 

[Kansaseq]