Looked like my chicks were bombed!!!!!

[wayneh]

We got our chicks yesterday from TSC. 6 little RIR's. having to get up all night and check on them, I got a scare aroung 2:30am. we have a tin roof and it was raining pretty hard and the sound was very calming. so calming infact, when I checked the chicks, they looked like they just fell where they lay. It was so funny, looked like a war movie, little bodies laying everywhere. wish I had a picture. kinda scared me at first, but they were just sleeping. I guess they liked the rain also.

 

[Tanichca]

oh that is SO funny!!!

 

[booker81]

Hee hee - they are so funny when they sleep as little ones! I think the first week I had mine, I was always nudging the brooder or staring intently to make sure they really WERE alive, since they like to sleep all flopped over!

 

[BookWorm243]

awww....

Glad to hear your new additions are doing good. We have our chicks/duckling together that we got from tractor supply. I decided yesterday to put the heating pad under there brooder box and they where sprawled out everywhere LOL. I had to poke them to make sure they where still alive, but even then they did not move to much that is until I put more food in. Wish I had my camera to.

 

[NickyPick]

I love how they will stretch their necks out, even over something like the stick or another chick. Makes them look like the quintessential rubber chicken

 

[Lawnman127]

I found out just how instinctive there survival knowledge is.
I was watching them one night, a few were sleeping but most were running around or eating.
I had to cough, as soon as I did, every chick in there jumped up and froze solid as a stone.
they held the pose so long several started sagging and falling over sleepy, finally after about 45 seconds
1 lone cheep came out, then another and another until they got back to there routine.
I guess they thought I was a monster

 

[funkdog]

LMAO!! Just got my new babies and I kept saying "they look like they're dead" but clearly they aren't--just a funny way of sleeping. I can't stand how cute they are and now when I watch them sleeping I visualize them storming Normandy in "Saving Private Rhode Island"!!