quiet chicks

[leight54]

This is not a concern, just a question. My 6-day-old chicks are so quiet! They make the very soft twitters, but never the loud peeping I've always associated with chicks. They are very active and healthy looking.

There are only 2 of them. Is it that chicks peep more when there are a lot of them together - they set each other off or something?

I hope this means they'll be quiet adults as well. (Neighbors)

Just curiously observing......

 

[rebeccabaird]

I have 4 brown leghorns and 3 make the usual peeping sound but one is very quiet. You can barely hear her peeping. She is healthy; eats well and looks well, but she is very quiet.

 

[Sorin]

I would say they are happy!

. From my limited experience, others peeping do kind if compound the noise. If I take one or two out of the brooder, they hear the others peeping and peep back. If I take them to another room where they can't hear, the two I took out quiet down.

 

[Bengalcats1]

A quiet chick is a happy and content chick

 

[gritsar]

Agreed. A quiet brooder, with only soft peeps here and there, means you're doing things right and all is well in your chicks little world.

 

[MarinMama]

my chicks only peep when they are scared.

 

[EricandJeri]

I looked into this because I have 3 new babies that are surprisingly quiet. They are hatched from our roo and some eggs that one of our hens decided to be broody on. They seem fine, eating and drinking, pooping and peeing, they are just quiet. The advice that they are probably just content makes me happy, thanks

 

[MigraineMan]

Our six chicks are generally quiet. Every once in a while, one will climb over another and "PEEP" goes the bottom one. Then they find their own spaces and go back to quietly burbling.

We did have one chick get very loud about a week ago. She was poopy-butted, and really let loose when we cleaned the crust off (both acoustically and fecally.) For the next half-day, she was loud every time she pooped ... probably was sore from being stopped up.

So yeah, "quiet" and "happy" seem to go hand-in-wing.