when do chicks get thier grown up voice?

[foxmfan1]

I got my ladies in March, so they are about 8 or so weeks old, my bf keeps asking me "when do they start sounding like real chickens? because they still sound like the little peepers they were, lol he teases me and says, "its because I baby them to much"
So when do the peep peeps, become bock bocks ?

 

[TwoCrows]

Funny, because I wondered the same thing and I think I even started a thread years ago asking the same question. LOL

If I can remember correctly, everybody told me that they will sound like peeping chicks till they were about 6 months old. And how correct everybody was! All of a sudden, about the time my Aussies were to start laying, the girls FINALLY started sounding like adult chickens. LOL

So you have a ways to go. Enjoy all the peeping for now!

 

[TwoCrows]

And if I remember right, at about 4 months old, their peeps started to get lower in tone just a bit. As the weeks went on the high pitched peeping slowly got deeper and deeper. By 6 months old, they started the baaak bok bok bok thing. LOL

The first time I heard it was one evening when one of them started baaaak baaaak ba gakkkk really loud. I was inside at the time and thought one of them had gotten hurt or something had a hold of one of them. But when I went outside, one girl was just standing there staring off into the distance practicing her laying voice or something. LOL They never stop talking now. LOL

 

[shmccarthy]

Some of my 3 month olds are getting their big girl voices and some aren't. The ones that are, are red/golden comets but my EEs and BRs and leghorns are still peeping. It really surprised me because I wasn't expecting the "bawkbawks" when I went in the coop.

 

[CGChickMama]

DH was asking me the same thing earlier and I told I would come here to ask. Great timing on the question. LOL!

 

[SobbaChickens]

I was wondering this too!

Mine are only 4-5wks old but two of my chicks, 1 black sex link and 1 red sex link have been making some different sounds lately. I'm not sure what their deal is .


Katie

 

[LTygress]

I've also got some barred rocks that are only 3 months old, and sounding more adult now. Two of them still sound young with their peeps, but the others are more of a "bok" now.