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Barnyard Buddies:  Relaxing chicken or ill chicken?  |
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CascadeFootHillsFarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
133 Posts
Stephanie
Granite Falls
Wa.
USA
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 Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 3:17:45 PM
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We just put our chicks out full time 3 days ago. They are 11 weeks old. I have one Dominique that is laying down in the sunny part of the run. She is not laying like she is nesting, it is a bit sideways, I can see one leg off to the side. Then all of a sudden she perks up and runs around like normal. No one is picking on her or pecking at her. She is eating and drinking, scratching and pooping like everyone else.
Do they have different positions of relaxing? I remember one of the chicks used to lay "odd" when they were about 6 weeks old and it's turned out just fine. It laid kind of like a duck with it's head tucked back on it's back with a foot out, not tucked under.
Thank you for your thoughts,
Stephanie & Amelia Bedelia ( we think her voice is changing too, heard some grown up noises yesterday! )
Oh, I also have a Buff that quacks like a duck! What a funny farm!
"A cabin with plenty of food is better than a hungry castle." Irish Quote |
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1badmamawolf
True Blue Farmgirl
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Teresa
"Bent Fence Farms"
Ca
USA
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Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 3:39:19 PM
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very normal, just relaxin
"Treat the earth well, it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children" |
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msdoolittle
True Blue Farmgirl
1152 Posts
Amanda
East Texas
USA
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Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 4:21:30 PM
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Stephanie,
Chickens love to 'sunbathe'. They will often lay on their sides, and look very, very much dead, lol. Suddenly, they will pop up and run around. I have gone outside several times to check on them and they run off at the last second. I think they laugh at me! Lol.
FarmGirl #1390
www.mylittlecountry.wordpress.com |
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farmmilkmama
True Blue Farmgirl
2027 Posts
Amy
Central MN
USA
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Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 6:35:05 PM
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Yup just relaxin! My mom will call me all the time to say "Something is wrong with one of the chickens!!" and I just giggle and her they are just hanging out enjoying the sun!! ;)
--* FarmMilkMama *--
Farmgirl Sister #1086
Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
-Oscar Wilde
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Lessie Louise
True Blue Farmgirl
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Carol
PECULIAR
MO
USA
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Posted - Jun 28 2010 : 7:13:23 PM
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Mine do that when they are sunnin'. It took me a while to realize they weren't half dead.
Forget buns of steel, I'd rather have buns of cinnamon!
Don't out smart your common sense!!
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CascadeFootHillsFarmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
133 Posts
Stephanie
Granite Falls
Wa.
USA
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Posted - Jun 29 2010 : 4:07:13 PM
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Thank you very much for all the replies. I was worried, I felt a lump in my throat the first time I saw her like that. Then the 2nd time I felt it in my tummy, till she got up and scurried off. Then I knew I better ask the experts! & you all came through.
I am glad she is so happy and comfy in her new surroundings that she can sunbathe with no worries.
Stephanie
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Relaxing chicken or ill chicken?
