I can't decide how to feel about this...

[Contessa]

We got our first chicks last night. The seemed to be really tired and were flopping over dead asleep in the brooder. I got up this morning and was thrilled to see all of them eating. The funny thing is however that if I go in and start talking to them, they stop whatever they're doing and go to sleep... Is that a good thing or a bad one?

Sorry if this is ridiculous, but I don't know much about baby chick behavior (obviously)....

 

[gritsar]

Sounds totally normal to me.

 

[Contessa]

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OK - whew! I thought I was scaring them to sleep or something, hahaha! Thanks!

 

[Chieftain]

Sounds normal, I have 2 Golden sex links in the brooder right now and they occasionally do the same thing.

I had one of my older chooks scare me last week; she looked like she was in convulsions in the run, thrashing around on one side and kicking her foot in the air. I really thought she had broken her neck somehow, but she was just taking a dustbath. She's done it several times since, and she just likes groveling in the warm sand...

They are like kids, and will do things you least expect...

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Maybe what you talk about is really boring for them. They're so bored they fall asleep.
Try talking about mealworms and grapes...

 

[Pet Duck Boy]

Mine did that a lot for the first few days. They would eat and play for 10 minutes and take a long nap, and repete. They are over a week old now and do it far less.

 

[Contessa]

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Hahaha! Thank you for sharing that because I probably would have thought the same thing if I saw it and you hadn't mentioned it!

 

[Contessa]

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You don't think they'll get overstimulated?

 

[Contessa]

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Ok - good news. A lot like human babies, hahaha... Just they grow faster and the poop smells worse!

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

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OK - whew! I thought I was scaring them to sleep or something, hahaha! Thanks!

Gosh, if you could develop that skill, you could make a killing with some parents I know.

"Contessa, the Sleep Whisperer"