Strange Behaviour?

[avroncotton]

My five week old chicks keep going onto one side and stretching out a wing, all three do it. Is this normal?

 

[cookinmom]

Hi avroncotton. Mine are also 5 wks. They stretch wings, stretch legs, lay on their sides in the sun. It's hard to say for sure that what yours are doing is normal, but it probably is fine. I think it's just a bird thing.

Sometimes when they dustbathe they wind up almost upside down.

 

[livestock101]

The laying on one side with a wing stretched out is totally normal.

 

[speckledhen]

They're taking a sunbath! Basking in the warmth, no problem. Even my adult hens do that on a sunny day.