Chicken trance?

[gabby3535]

I have heard that chickens can sometimes be in a 'trance' when they are sleeping?
Anyone else ever hear of a chicken trance?

 

[jenjscott]

Sounds more like my hens when they`re broody

 

[georgialee]

Yep. When it's dark out they kind of get comatose. I have a couple of ee's that hate to be touched/held during the day but if I go our at dark to check on them they let me pick them up to put them in their house.

 

[Young MacDonald]

Wow, I get to share the cool information from my daughter's book again. -- I bought my 8 year-old a book for children, a kid's guide to raising chickens.

It says you can hypnotize chickens by laying them on their back and stroking their breasts. They will fall into a trance and won't awake for several minutes.

Here's a website about it:
http://www.mindpowernews.com/HypnotizeChicken.htm

 

[ChickenNoodle]

I will have to try this so I can get the pinless peeper on my bully hen.

 

[australorpchick]

Pin their backs to the ground for a few seconds and they relax. My more docile chickens I can lean their backs against my chest and they relax.

 

[tallulahsmum1]

Hi,I have an indoor chook.....a gold laced Wyandot and she goes into a trance like state when she is eating a variety of different foods from my hand. I find that grapes,sugarsnap peas and anything that she maybe hasn't eaten before will do it. She will have an initial peck and then her eyes just glaze over whilst she remains still for anything up to a minute or so,between bites!!!!! Begs regards Wendy