Honking chicks?

[AtlantisPeeps]

My New Hampshire and my buff Orpington 9 week old chicks honk. It's not a cluck, it's like a squeaky fog horn... I'll get a video up later.
Do a lot of chickens make this noise?

 

[HEChicken]

I've only heard a honking noise when they're too hot. Best to find a way to cool them down pronto.

 

[AtlantisPeeps]

Ok. Now why don't the others do it?

 

[tridentk9]

My New Hampshire and my buff Orpington 9 week old chicks honk. It's not a cluck, it's like a squeaky fog horn... I'll get a video up later.
Do a lot of chickens make this noise?

Is it when you give them treats? I have a suspected roo that does that, then runs around with the treat.

 

[Suzie]

My Turken ( Naked Neck ) chicks all honk too....! They are of a similar age to yours....the adults cluck! I have over 40 chickens and the loudest by far are my Silkies......they screech for attention...

Usually for treats as the above poster says....

 

[aart]

My 15 week old chicks kind of honk too...and it's plenty cool here, so it's not the heat.
I think maybe it's an adolescence voice change thing....a stage between cheeping and clucking?

 

[ktn65]

I have 15 meat cornish/rock crosses out in the chicken tractor. There is one, that when I startle, honks like a goose. Cracks me up every time. I hear it.