4wk old chick wing dancing older hens

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Has anyone seen this before? My Sultan chick, who I now assume is male, is about 4weeks old and he is doing a wing dance for my 1+ year old hens. He makes a trilling or cooing noise at them and does the wing dance. I've never heard this noise before, I'm not sure if it's a breed specific sound? (first sultan)

Is he flirting or is this aggression? My hens think he's dumb, peck him on the back and walk away.

 

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Can you try to capture the behavior on video?

Precocious behavior sometimes does occur when testosterone hormones are present in a small chick at higher than normal levels, usually temporarily. I had a chick of similar age "tidbit" and try to mate his chick mates. A few weeks later, around six or eight weeks, he was belting out squeaky crows.

The chick from my flock with this behavior was a Golden Cuckoo Marans.

 

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I will try!

 

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He's not wanting to go anywhere near the big girls. He must have got the message haha