One chick won't stop chirping! Help for a new chicken farmer?

[Turner_Family_Flock]

This question is actually 90% of the reason I joined this site.
Me and my family decided to get 4 baby chicks in order to become more self-sufficient by the time winter comes(and we intend on getting two more of another breed within the next few days).
We've been researching this for at least 2 years, have set up a brooder, and we LOVE our babies. Even our 90 pound pitbull loves the chicks after only a day and a half home!

All of our chicks have access to food and water in their brooder, and we've seen that all of them eat and drink about the same ammount. They do not hide from the heat lamp nor do they huddle beneath it- just kind of chill wherever they feel like. They have a toy in the brooder (an all-natural parrot toy which they seem to enjoy pecking at). They also have a wooden block that raises up their food and water dishes, and pebbles in their water dish that are supposed to prevent them from drowning and prevent them from pooping there. (whatever the rocks are for, the girls have kept the dish very clean.)
All in all, our four girls are lovely and they seem very comfortable in their new home! Our girls' names are Unice, Chickety, Tiny, and Cluck Noris (aka "Nori").

The question I have is about my girl. Cluck Noris.
See, Nori is just as developed as her sisters- tiny wing feathers coming in and all. She eats and drinks and sleeps just as much as the rest of them, and she's not agressive with any of her sisters.

But Nori is very, VERY loud.
Whenever you hear peeping coming from the brooder- it's Nori. In fact, she's *so* loud that when she wants to, she can fill the whole house with her call.

The chicks we got were "pre sexed" from the store Wilco, and are Novogen chickens. There's supposed to be a 90% accuracy rating on the sex of the chickens- so there is a 10% chance we ended up with a boy.
What I'm concerned about is: could this behavior be an indicator of having ended up with a rooster? Obviously our family doesn't want a rooster. We only want the girls to be laying edible eggs, and for that matter my father was traumatized by a particularily mean rooster on his mother's farm as a child. Not to mention we have neighbours that don't want to wake up to a rooster's cawing.


I've been watching her since we got her- Nori doesn't seem to mind the temperature of the brooder at all, she eats, drinks, and sleeps normally, she poops just as often as the rest of them (yes, we check them for pasty butts too, her butt is clean!) so we aren't sure *why* this one chick in particular is such a peeper! I haven't been able to find much information on one member of the flock being so noisy, and we haven't been able to find any information on why Nori might be acting this way, which is why I'm concerned 'she' might really be a rooster, which would be awful because she's *my* baby and *I* got to name her and if we ended up with a rooster? We fully intend to fatten him up and eat him by the time he's 6 weeks old.

Then again, we're first-time chicken farmers, we might be totally wrong! Any tips on how I can make her feel more comfortable and/or how to correct this behavior to prevent future noise complaints would be greatly appreciated!

 

[freedom chick]

What breed did you get?
Photos?
What is your brooder temp?
Chicks are chicks and behavior cannot be necessarily corrected. She needs something.

 

[Turner_Family_Flock]

We have 4 (5 day old) novogen red sex-link chickens- a cross between Rhode Island Reds and White Leghorns.

The temp. of the brooder is 90 degrees, and each of the chicks stay at around 80-85 degrees (We got a lazer temperature gun to figure this out. Did you know baby chicks will chase lazers? I sure didn't know that. precious babies)

But again, Nori is the only chick that seems to be wanting for anything. They're all eating, drinking, sleeping, and playing normally- Nori is just the loud one, and we want to make sure she's not in distress.
Today she's still eating and drinking and pooping normally, her vent is still clear, and the feathers on her wings have even grown a little bit bigger. She appears healthy as can be, and she's friendly as ever.


We're really just trying to make sure that there's nothing wrong with her. Perhaps she's just a chatty bird, but we're just trying to make sure that she's chirping because she's got a chirpy personality and not because she needs anything. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
(Photo of Nori taken yesterday attatched. It's hard to take pictures of birds on a laptop isn't it? Sorry I couldn't get better pictures! I'll be sure to practice getting some better shots.)

 

[rosemarythyme]

Some chickens are chattier than others. Sounds like she's completely healthy, so hopefully that's the case, rather than there being something wrong with her.

 

[AngieDawn]

Some are noisy. We have one called Loud Laila and I’m sure you can guess why.

so if she seems healthy, no part butt, eating and drinking and active and alert and able to get in and out of the heat then I would just watch her

 

[crowber]

I had one that would peep loudly when she lost everyone, like they would be under the brooder pad, and she would be on top of it. We would have to physically show her where everyone was at. She's a bit smarter now.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Some chicks are needier than others. I have seen chick wanting other chicks to feed them.

 

[333113]

I've had this happen occasionally. Sometimes a chick just needs quality parent-time. I gather up the little peeper and hold him against my chest in a washcloth (think "warm" "heartbeat" "terrycloth feels like feathers"); also (think "terrycloth means no poop on my clothes"). After a half-hour to sometimes two hour nap, the peeper goes right back with the sibs, and we don't hear a peep out of them again!

We always think we have given them everything they want, food, water, a warm, dry place. But, let's face facts, we aren't giving them what their instincts are calling for, a snuggle in a dark forest of warm feathers that sounds and smells like mom or dad.

However, if someone gets a little stressed or overtired, a long nap can cure that. It works for me!

 

[clinfitt]

This happens to us a lot. My kids like to play with the chicks and there's always one that seems to still want attention at night haha. If no one was in the room, the little one would chirp sooo loud. Incessantly. We finally resorted to placing a blanket on the part of the cage that she could see out of and she quieted down.

 

[chelseachook]

Yes, this is happening to me too! We have two chicks, 2 weeks old, and Baby has always been very noisy when she is left alone. She was 1 week old when she got a friend, which is why I think she is more dependent on my. I have recently moved them to the chook pen (they are in a cage with a heat lamp and hot water bottle) and I was up at 2 am due to the rooster crowing. When I went on the deck, I could hear her chirping - the pen is at least 30 meters from the house - so I went down to check on them. They were completely fine! I guess some chicks are just attention seekers.