Unusual sleeping / napping posture

[BigBlueHen53]

Shelly's a great name, BTW!

 

[centrarchid]

This emmersion in close chicken interactions around the clock are yielding additional observations. Firstly, consistent with a student trial a few years back, no cecal poops produced at night. Secondly, Shelly is very prone to “cuddle” with even a modest drop in temperature. She is in very good weight and yet I can still feel her shiver to keep warm. When she cuddles the shivering stops in relatively short order. As of yesterday she started dropping her second set (1st juvenile) of tail feathers. She spends a lot of time preening while in close proximity to me.