bcorps
Songster
I'm an appalling novice, but everything I read says roosters usually start crowing around 4-5 months of age. Not girls doing it at 6 weeks.
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes and ears. First "heard" it a few days ago while I was in the other room getting ready for work. Four long screams about 10 seconds apart. Not "cock a doodle doo", obviously, but completely different from any other noise that comes out of there during the rest of the day. And just a minute or two after I turned their lights on and went to make my breakfast.
It happened again yesterday, but I didn't get to see it until today, being Saturday and being off work. After the first one, I ran out of the kitchen to see who was doing it, hoping to re-identify the cockerel in my flock, since the blue mark the hatchery put on his head had long since faded (but I do know he is one of the two chicks that are a bit "behind" the others in growth...their combs haven't started coloring up).
To my surprise it was my biggest pullet (The Abomination) craning her neck out and giving the cutest little baby death scream.
Which makes me wonder of course....did my hatchery botch the sexing? Only time will tell. If the Abomination is actually a cockerel, I am going to have one extremely friendly rooster on my hands. "She" is always the first to jump out of the cage to sit in the crook of my arm.
I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't witnessed it with my own eyes and ears. First "heard" it a few days ago while I was in the other room getting ready for work. Four long screams about 10 seconds apart. Not "cock a doodle doo", obviously, but completely different from any other noise that comes out of there during the rest of the day. And just a minute or two after I turned their lights on and went to make my breakfast.
It happened again yesterday, but I didn't get to see it until today, being Saturday and being off work. After the first one, I ran out of the kitchen to see who was doing it, hoping to re-identify the cockerel in my flock, since the blue mark the hatchery put on his head had long since faded (but I do know he is one of the two chicks that are a bit "behind" the others in growth...their combs haven't started coloring up).
To my surprise it was my biggest pullet (The Abomination) craning her neck out and giving the cutest little baby death scream.
Which makes me wonder of course....did my hatchery botch the sexing? Only time will tell. If the Abomination is actually a cockerel, I am going to have one extremely friendly rooster on my hands. "She" is always the first to jump out of the cage to sit in the crook of my arm.
