We have some 15-week old chicks. 2 appear to be cockerels. Here is the recent thread on the one whose behavior is in question: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/14-weeks-breed-gender.1284461/. In this thread all BYCers feel this is a cockerel (which I can believe, and am not doubting), in particular many felt it is a Delaware.
However, today as I was inside the coop cleaning this particular chicken was inside a nest box, and then came out and was clucking - similar to a chatty hen. Now, maybe this one was just expressing his displeasure that I was in the coop, maybe it was hiding from me in the nest box...not sure. My tween says that this particular chick will do this - cluck cluck when she is around/ in the coop. So, do cockerels cluck cluck like this?
We have had chickens for almost 10 months, and we have 2 cockerels that are 10 months and we never noticed either of those two cluck clucking. We butchered 2 very noisy cockerels at 14 weeks last spring, and I don't recall them cluck clucking either. This particular chicken has never crowed, but then again, we have 2 older cockerels so that may be keeping him quiet. Thoughts? Thx.
However, today as I was inside the coop cleaning this particular chicken was inside a nest box, and then came out and was clucking - similar to a chatty hen. Now, maybe this one was just expressing his displeasure that I was in the coop, maybe it was hiding from me in the nest box...not sure. My tween says that this particular chick will do this - cluck cluck when she is around/ in the coop. So, do cockerels cluck cluck like this?
We have had chickens for almost 10 months, and we have 2 cockerels that are 10 months and we never noticed either of those two cluck clucking. We butchered 2 very noisy cockerels at 14 weeks last spring, and I don't recall them cluck clucking either. This particular chicken has never crowed, but then again, we have 2 older cockerels so that may be keeping him quiet. Thoughts? Thx.
And clucking is one way they call others to treats. 
