Someone gotta warn us Newbies that chicks sleep like THIS:

[grnthmb]

I was born and raised on a farm in south arkansas and never have i seen a chick sleep like that. Mama would buy babies sometimes and they would huddle and squat but never lay prone. If i saw one like that i would have sworn it was dead.
Michael

 

[tebs78]

i know I have a bunch in the brooder and it looks like a bomb went off most nights when they go to sleep lol. you would think they were dead!

 

[Fox]

I know! It scared me the first time too... then it was just adorable!

 

[texasbartrambaby]

I can't wait until mine hatch!!! I only caught my EE's like that, ONCE. I shook the box too!!!!

 

[Hiedi]

I love those pictures! I do remember the first time one of mine kind of fell over and went to sleep like that. I thought, "Oh no, one has died already". And then when they started flopping and rolling around in the brooder, simulating a dust bath. I had no idea what that was either. lol

 

[Suellyn]

Hi, all... I LOVE the other pixs that got posted, and am glad to know that I am not alone in having a Newbie heart failure....

I will also keep in mind the warnings about dust bathing and HOPEFULLY not have a coronary

the first time I see THAT!!!!!!!!!! (forewarned is forearmed...)

Oh and FYI, I know it looks like 2 different chicks, but is actually the same one, with darker & lighter camera exposure... The flash woke it up, it gave me an ANNOYED sleepy look, then flopped over again for pix #2!!

It is actually a Serama (my only one out of the bunch), and the pix with the "crumbles" next to it is actually just chick starter that I crunched up extra fine to accomodate his itsy-tiny size (someone on this thread asked if it was oyster shells). He (or actually SHE, I hope) is my 4 yr old daughter's absolute FAVORITE, and will flop over & zonk out in her toasty little hand like this, too!! Otherwise has tons of energy & causes a general ruckus among the other (larger!!!!) chicks, likes shiny things including their eyeballs

.... good thing they are much taller than he/she is!!!!!!!!!

 

[agnes_day]

yep i remember the first time i saw them dust bathing too..i just knew that poor old blackie was having a seizure right there in the back yard!

 

[jimnjay]

And sometimes they sleep like this

I looked for this photo whey I first saw this thread and could not find it. I guess I needed to clean out my Photobucket

 

[tunaoftheland]

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awww! One of my girls fell asleep like that her first day here and couldn't get back over because the others kept coming and standing on her. I had to flip her back over

 

[chickenlover50010]

They are all ADORABLE!! It makes me want my parents to agree with me even more!! If they saw these they would fall head over heels....at least my mom would

. It just makes me want to reach into the picture and give one a hug!!