This chicken is not dead

[2ndTink]

15 minutes out of the incubator and already practicing for a long life of stressing me out

 

[RoyalChick]

15 minutes out of the incubator and already practicing for a long life of stressing me out

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Oh that chick will go far! It has already fully mastered the technique. It is all in the legs and feet!

 

[N F C]

15 minutes out of the incubator and already practicing for a long life of stressing me out

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Setting a fine example for the rest of the chicks!

 

[janiedoe]

15 minutes out of the incubator and already practicing for a long life of stressing me out

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Lazy bum.

 

[Ponypoor]

Kelly, I can't remember your black hen's name, but she needs a guard rail..she looks like she's going to get shoved off the "mattress" any minute.

Dorothy - I love how she has her head propped up on the door she is also half laying on a brick paver that is on the floor by the door.

It’s hilarious the places the choose to sun bathe.

 

[Ponypoor]

15 minutes out of the incubator and already practicing for a long life of stressing me out

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Holy Dinah! Yep that one will be trouble

 

[redinator]

I didn't get a picture, but my chicks nearly gave me a heart attack in their first 24 hours outside. I had just put them outside in their new run the day before. I got them settled hung out while they got comfortable, a few hours later after everyone looked happy I went inside.

The next morning I go out to the run to check on everyone. One chick dropped right in front of me, flopped to the side and just laid there . . I went to touch it and it didn't move, this particular chick isn't keen on being handled so I was thinking it just croaked right there . . at my feet . . . then I here a strange "croaking" noise . . . holy crap it's dying . . .I killed my chicken . . .

Then another one, same thing, dropped to the ground flopped over and laid there . . . .then they both start thrashing around and croaking . . . what is going on, why are they just dying . . .

Stunned and not knowing to do I pick up the first chick to check it for injures . . . . a third chick dropped in the same spot . . .

I should mention these are my first chickens . . .and I only had 4 at this point . . . so I'm thinking they're dropping like flies and I have one left . .

I finish checking over the first chick, who wasn't happy about being handled, but it didn't have any injures and it walks off . . . uh ok . . .

I look at the other two still thrashing around in the dirt and realize they're DUST BATHING . . .

Friggin' weirdo chickens

 

[redinator]

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Maybe my chicks aren't so weird then, lol.

 

[redinator]

"blessed in the brains department"

I'm stealing that, just so you know . . .I spewed soda on my monitor, lol

 

[redinator]

I have to say, I love this thread. Thanks @janiedoe!

Same, now I know to check before digging a hole. Good grief!