Crowing already!

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gardenergirl
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Crowing already!

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My little 6 1/2 week old bantam chicks are getting quite big now, but I was still surprised this morning to hear what sounded like strangled cries of pain coming from downstairs (they live in the sitting room for the moment). I ran downstairs expecting some terrible scene, but instead found Hopalong doing this...

https://youtu.be/00zT56pafQo

(Excuse the terrible state of the room. I was told chicks were dusty... they really are!)

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{rofwl} {rofwl}
I had the same the other day...we had this beautiful little bantam that I was hoping was going to be a hen....but in the last 2 weeks tail feathers and that strangled cockadoodle {rofwl}
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ha ha! that takes me back, sigh! I loved this part of hatching, once the mum had abandoned them & they slept in the house. I found the boys were the tamest ones. How many boys do you have?
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The boys are definitely the tamest ones! Especially that one, he's very bold. I have 6 chicks altogether - 4 Pekins and 2 bearded slikies. 3 of the Pekins are boys, and I suspect 1 of the silkies. That's going by behaviour more than appearance though (I know silkies are hard to s.ex). One 'chest bumps' with the other boys, and is more forward than the other one, like the Pekin boys.

I'm really attached to all of them now, so I'll see how long they'll tolerate each other. I want to keep them all!
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Hi , space and places to run around and get up out the way . I had 4 boys that lived together . They had their disputes , but mostly got on well. As they are brought up together , they will get a pecking order and then just except it . If you introduce a new one it is then a fighting match which can get nastie.
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