Hi All. Wondering if anyone else has any experience with this and/or knows what this is about:
Last summer I bought a couple Welsummer pullets that were hatched in early April. They are the calmest, sweetest little girls! Well, one of them fell asleep in my arms right away when I picked her up to put her in the car. Not conked out like she was hit over the head, just settled into my arms and closed her eyes to sleep.
This sweetheart is healthy, beautiful, and she has just started laying in the past few weeks. She's laying an egg every other day - beautiful dark and speckled and nice shells. She eats fine, acts fine, is obviously very content. But she is constantly sleeping! She will scratch around, eat some, then just stand there and go to sleep. She even does the typical little 'zoom zoom' from time to time and flaps her wings...and gets up on the house to be up high. But then she goes to sleep. I go in the pen and hang out with the girls, she walks up to me and then stands in front of me and falls asleep!
Any clues? There are no signs of any illness. I think she is incapable of being stressed...she is just so calm and relaxed and sweet! She's just a sleeping beauty! Why so sleepy?
Would love to hear some thoughts on this...
Last summer I bought a couple Welsummer pullets that were hatched in early April. They are the calmest, sweetest little girls! Well, one of them fell asleep in my arms right away when I picked her up to put her in the car. Not conked out like she was hit over the head, just settled into my arms and closed her eyes to sleep.
This sweetheart is healthy, beautiful, and she has just started laying in the past few weeks. She's laying an egg every other day - beautiful dark and speckled and nice shells. She eats fine, acts fine, is obviously very content. But she is constantly sleeping! She will scratch around, eat some, then just stand there and go to sleep. She even does the typical little 'zoom zoom' from time to time and flaps her wings...and gets up on the house to be up high. But then she goes to sleep. I go in the pen and hang out with the girls, she walks up to me and then stands in front of me and falls asleep!
Any clues? There are no signs of any illness. I think she is incapable of being stressed...she is just so calm and relaxed and sweet! She's just a sleeping beauty! Why so sleepy?
Would love to hear some thoughts on this...