Chest bumping chicks

[chickogolden]

I have seven chicks that are three weeks old. I have noticed four of them for over a week will run up to each other a bump chest. This is my first time with chicks. I am not duress if they are roosters or not.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Not an indication of sex. Pullets do it too. It's all about playing the pecking order game.

 

[LPeaslee]

I hope that's not the body language of a rooster, because if it is all I have is roos.
But seriously I think male and female alike, they are just establishing the pecking order.

 

[Serenity Sav]

Yep, both genders do it.

 

[chickogolden]

Thank you i was worried and not sure what I was going to do. I can't have roosters.

 

[subhanalah]

I have a pullet and a cockerel, both 4.5 weeks old and since the day they learned how to flutter, they've done this even to this very day.the funny thing is!he's almost twice her size,and when he is roosting on my husband's wrist,she will fly up and roost ON TOP of the cockerel. I can't wait to see how it plays out.