Sit quietly in the large brooder for a long time, let the chicks get used to your presence. They will approach you, climb on you, look up at you with those adorable inquisitive eyes and you will think you're making such WONDERFUL progress in the way of acclimating your new girls to being around and handled by humans.
Then sneeze.
They will scatter as far as possible, flatten themselves to walls and floors and you will experience the chicken facial expression of pure shock and horror from your little chooks. Laughing at them will not calm them down, by the way. They will remain as flat, silent and frozen in terror until their little chicken hearts defibrillate and return to a normal rhythm.
(i felt really bad, but do wish I had it on video)
Then sneeze.
They will scatter as far as possible, flatten themselves to walls and floors and you will experience the chicken facial expression of pure shock and horror from your little chooks. Laughing at them will not calm them down, by the way. They will remain as flat, silent and frozen in terror until their little chicken hearts defibrillate and return to a normal rhythm.
(i felt really bad, but do wish I had it on video)