Quiet chicks...should I be worried?

[mshirk]

Two years ago I raised 3 Buff Orpingtons, and they were SUPER loud compared to my 5 (1 buff, 1 light brahma, 1 barred rock, 2 ameracauna's) I picked up this morning. They are all eating, drinking, scratching, stretching, sleeping, and seem fine when I pick them up and check them out for pasty butt, etc. I keep going out to the garage thinking they've all dropped dead!

Should I be worried? I keeping thinking I'm going to wake up to dead chicks in the morning. I've never heard of chicks that peep so quietly and rarely!

 

[RonC]

Just make sure they have their needs met. Food, water and a warm cozy spot and all should be good. Count your blessings if they are quiet, they may not stay that way.

 

[mshirk]

They NEVER are quiet once they are older LOL! Thanks for the reassurance on these oddly quiet chicks.

 

[Coralietg]

I've found (in general) chicks are quiet when they are happy. Water full, lots of food, nice and warm. Wood chips in their water, food getting low, they start the alert. I have a brooder 5 feet from me with 20 chicks in, and not much noise at all. I was brooding bantams 2 months a go, and I could hear them from the bedroom. Buggers would wake me up in the night.
It also depends on the bird. I had a little bantam that was a complete foghorn. It would cheep constantly, VERY loud and would usually set its friends off, lol.