In Oct. only one Blue Orpington chick hatched. Yesterday I was holding the chick, and it does all the motions of a rooster crowing but no sound. At this post the chick is 16 days old and was wondering if this chick might be rooster.
I have a chick that hatched yesterday and there is a clump of afterbirth dried on it head. I've tried soaking it but it won't come off. Any thoughts on how to get it off or should it be left alone. It is not obstructing anything on the chicks head. It sort of looks like the chick is wearing...
so our rooster has finally figured out how to crow, and not sound like a teenage boy... the problem is however that now he wont stop! at first it was a few times a day and now, he is crowing several times an hour! any thoughts on why or how to make it stop. we would hate to send him to "freezer...
I am new to raising chickens. He/She is 10 weeks old, as a chick it was a little but not much compared to the other RIR. If it helps it had chipmunk stripes when a chick.