3 Day Old Chick... Crowing?!

[wayward]

This is Persimmon.


He is the only chick in our current brood that were %100 sure about sex. So obviously he can be expected to be strutting about like he owns the place in only a matter of weeks. Or perhaps, days?

I really want to try to capture it on video, but he's a tricky bugger. It's not completely unheard of, as I've seen video of it before on this very website. He perks himself up tall and belts out a sound what can only be described as letting all of the air out of a balloon into a whistle.

 

[iwiw60]

Can't wait to see THAT!!

 

[boyswillbeboys]

Lol, I had one in my last batch of chicks that I knew was male from day one, but them he waited till 13 weeks to crow

 

[blackgoat]

My 5 day old chick is crowing. He is an olive egger. His name is Danger. His companion is Gypsy. (kudos if you get the reference!) At first I wasn't sure if the trilling I was hearing was crowing or just another of the many noises chicks make. But, he does the wing flap and neck stretch and everything. If the below video doesn't work, here is a link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZqhFKXAw0&feature=youtu.be

 

[iwiw60]

VIDEO please!!

 

[blackgoat]

I put a link to the video in my original post

 

[wayward]

Gypsy Danger. Pacific Rim. Haha yes, solid reference.

Unfortunately many of Percy's siblings are starting to look like roosters, too. He hasn't crowed anymore since the first week of his life. It's been months now!

 

[CackleBabies]

I am new to this board and to chicken keeping, but I have a little buff brahma bantam that crowed at 3 days old too. We have it on video too, I'll post it. Poor thing has been hen pecked into silence though, since then.