Baby chicks chest bumping?

[cary 1973]

now my chicks have me and my daughter doing it to as matter of fact today at the $tree store we rounded the corner island at same time at oppist ends looked at each other lowered are head raised our wings and ran and chest bumped and peeped at teh same time copying what the chicks do needless to say my mother turned around and walked away from us so while we were standing in line to pay sebrina and I keep peeping and bowaking like chickens lol


and I can say with 100% certin we are girls

 

[msmechanic58]

now my chicks have me and my daughter doing it to as matter of fact today at the $tree store we rounded the corner island at same time at oppist ends looked at each other lowered are head raised our wings and ran and chest bumped and peeped at teh same time copying what the chicks do needless to say my mother turned around and walked away from us so while we were standing in line to pay sebrina and I keep peeping and bowaking like chickens lol


and I can say with 100% certin we are girls

 

[angel8035]

That was the first clue that my Delaware Lucy might be a "he." He has since been renamed Lucifer Now that they are a few months old, they all kind of do it though and it is fun to watch. The roo started at just a few weeks old though.

Six weeks old: Lucy with his chick-a-saur girlfriends

 

[chickenteacher2]

I hope chest bumping isn't a sign they are roo's. All of mine do it. I think they are just setting their pecking order to see who rules the roost.

Mine, too.....I hope it's just a chicken pecking ordering process, because a LOT of my babies do it.

 

[MeghanShane]

I am so glad I found this post. I am new to BYC as well as owning chickens in general. I have Silkies, Sizzles, Cream Legbars, & Ameraucansa, Easter Egger/Marans/Orpington mix. They are all (11 total) about 5 weeks old. We have had them since they were about 2 weeks and just told we noticed (mainly two of the silkies) flapping their wings and then bumping chests. A few of the other chicks would get in on it but it was always the 2 silkies that started this act. Being a "first timer" I was not sure if they were fighting or playing. I have to say... I was pretty funny to watch. Thank goodness I found your posts!! I guess I have to stop calling these two "shes". LOL

 

[chickenteacher2]

You know, it's definitely a rooster thing, but even the girls do it. I just have found the roosters tend to do it more.

 

[Don Andrews]

My girls get into it when I put them outside. Couple of fluttery bumps, then they go around one another and maybe encounter someone else.

It doesn't persist, though!

 

[Sutherlandfarms]

Mine did it all the time, especially during their "teen" stage. All mine are girls.

Praise the lord I thought I had 14 roos