Unusual sleeping / napping posture

[centrarchid]

This 10-week-old pullet

spends way too much time with me. Stays in truck all day and roosts on fan in bedroom. Immediately after work we came in and I passed out doing the sheets. Woke up to find this.

 

[Perris]

does she think she's human? Have you been conducting imprinting experiments with her?

 

[Fluffy_Butt_Hutt]

I've never seen a chicken sleeping like this but it wouldn't seem to badly affect the chicken. Seems like a typical chicken sunbathing position. Somewhat looks like she's mimicking the way humans sleep!

 

[centrarchid]

The pullet was hen-hatched and hen-reared through six weeks post-hatching. There was limited contact between she and I when out in the yard. Free-range reared to that point. My son complained that hens brood was small and flighty to I took pulley and kept her with me around the clock except when in office for the next four weeks. If she imprinted on me, then not via the typical path.

 

[Bigdumogre]

She looks comfy!!!!

 

[Mrs. K]

Comfy??? I thought she was dead!

 

[centrarchid]

Comfy??? I thought she was dead!

I respected more responses like yours. I have never seen even chicks in a brooder laying down like that unless breathing there last.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Well, Cent, you need to give her (?) a catchy name and keep this thread updated so we can watch her grow into a trucker's companion. Will she perch on the steering wheel as you drive? Wear a trucker's hat?

 

[centrarchid]

Well, Cent, you need to give her (?) a catchy name and keep this thread updated so we can watch her grow into a trucker's companion. Will she perch on the steering wheel as you drive? Wear a trucker's hat?

Her name is Shelly. Great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Sallie, a hen that was the subject of such a thread. I’m a mad scientist, not a trucker.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Sorry. You did mention a truck. JK.