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.

 

[Karen Glatz]

I logged in to ask a similar question. I gave my Cochin broody hen 4 chicks, 2 Brahmas and 2 Welsummers at the end of August. At 11 1/2 weeks she still clucks to them and shows them food items during the day, and at night all 4 of them try to get under her wings on the roost.

Last week I went out to shut the coop door in the dark, and found a big lump on top of the coop. It was her and the 4 chicks. For some reason they hadn't gone in with the other hens and rooster and were hunkered down on top of the coop, all 4 pullets trying to get under her spread out wings. The chicks must be strong enough flyers to get themselves up to the 5' roof when mom called. It was about to rain. I popped them all in the coop and shut the door. They STILL want to be under her wings at night and she shows no signs of pushing them away, even though they are 2/3 the size of full grown hens and Brahmas are bigger than Cochins so that's no small thing.