Baby crowing and STILL not weaned! What age is your oldest chick to wean from mama?

[z3lda3]

Hi, so I’m just curious. How old was your oldest chick that was weaned ?
Typically my chicks are weaned by 5 weeks old. But I’ve got a clutch, they just turned 7 weeks, one of which is CROWING and mama still mamas them. It’s fine with me, they’re healthy and happy. But it hysterical to watch a crowing baby running after mama!

 

[Evadig]

Hi, so I’m just curious. How old was your oldest chick that was weaned ?
Typically my chicks are weaned by 5 weeks old. But I’ve got a clutch, they just turned 7 weeks, one of which is CROWING and mama still mamas them. It’s fine with me, they’re healthy and happy. But it hysterical to watch a crowing baby running after mama!

I had a cockerel that was still following and sleeping under mama at nearly twenty weeks! In contrast, his brother went and got himself hitched to a group of pullets at fourteen weeks.

Edit: He’s fifteen weeks here.

 

[z3lda3]

I had a cockerel that was still following and sleeping under mama at nearly twenty weeks! In contrast, his brother went and got himself hitched to a group of pullets at fourteen weeks.

Edit: He’s fifteen weeks here.
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Omg how adorable!!! You know if that was a pullet she could’ve very well been laying. Can you imagine her running off to lay, and running back under her mama?!? lol
So my mama is a standard size and daddy is a bantam. The chicks are definitely taking after daddy, they’re small..well short but wide lol. They still try to get under mama. It’s so funny to watch this little cockerel poke his head out from under mama to crow. I’ve never seen anything like it.