Weird Chick Noise...Any Idea What it Means?

[hokankai]

So I have a 2 week old silkie in a hospital tank who is sneezing. I can't tell if she has rales or not, but if she does it's very minor.

Anyway, she has kind of stopped peeping...and instead makes a kind of cackle sound most of the time. It basically sounds like a choppy chirp, like breaking one long peep into 4 short ones. She does it all the time, especially when I take her out and hold her. Any idea what it means? She peeps sometimes, but it's mostly this sound lately...

 

[hokankai]

Anybody? Anybody else's chicks make this sound?

 

[Anianna]

Maybe she's a roo? Several BYCers have mentioned their roos trying to crow very early, making strange pre-crowing sounds as early as 2 weeks old, though most of them are older. I don't suppose you could get a recording of it, perhaps put a video up on YouTube?

 

[Pele]

Is it like a trill? Trilling is chicken version of "man I'm sleepy/comfy"

 

[Nicole01]

Possibly a respitory infection? My maple sounded very hoarse when she had a RI for about 2 weeks. Her chirping was very scratching sounds.

 

[hokankai]

It was kind of like a trill I guess, but more of a distressed sound rather than a content sound. It's kind of hard to explain, maybe I'll try to get a video of her doing it when I get home.