Interesting Noises

[NCnarrator]

We picked up our first chickens on Saturday - 3 Barred Plymouth Rocks, and 2 EE (billed as Ameraucana...but I can't tell the difference LOL). The EE's were hatched mid-January and the rocks were hatched at the end of January.

Hubby and I noticed last night that they went from being basically quiet to a lot of little peepy noises as the sun went down and they started getting sleepy. We've also noticed that our little cross-beaked girl purrs when she's pleased with something, which is not a noise I expected to hear from chickens.

So when do they usually start making the clucks?

 

[keith brickhouse]

round laying age

 

[Fierlin1182]

You will be able to tell when their voices start breaking, it's both very cute and quite amusing. It starts to happen when they're around a month old, and they're fully clucking by two months.

Purring from the chickens sticks though, I often hear them do it when they're on the nest, laying an egg.