My pullet's voice is changing - and sounds like a goose

[Back2Roots]

This is my first year with chickens of my own. I have 4 hens: one is a 4 year old Silkie, one is a 1 year old Appenzeller bantam, and two are 3+ months old - a Euskal Oilak and a Barnevelder_Wyandotte mix.
The EO pullet still has her "little girl" voice, but my little "Barnedotte" has been sounding different over the last few days. The first day I noticed she sounded a bit like a frog, and yesterday she sounded more like a goose. It sounds quite funny, but I am wondering if this is normal ... will it continue to change until she sounds more like a chicken?

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Any chance she is actually a rooster beginning to crow?

 

[Back2Roots]

I REALLY hope not! I absolutely can't have roosters here. She doesn't have spurs and not much of a comb or tail, and I thought that Barnevelder pullets generally grow their tails out later than cockerals of the breed do.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Post a picture? Maybe some experts will weigh in?

 

[Back2Roots]

Good idea - thanks! I will take a photo of her and post it when I get home from work this evening. I only have photos here from a couple of weeks ago, so not very current.

 

[Mac14]

Ya, the goose sound is the chicks getting their grown-up voices. One chicken that I had still sounded like a goose even when she was an adult. Haha! But maybe a couple pictures would be nice just to check on its gender.

 

[Back2Roots]

Thanks! That makes me feel better - I really hope she's a she. I will definitely still post a photo this evening.

 

[Back2Roots]

Sorry, have been trying for over an hour to upload a pic and it's just not happening. Given that, I will itemize what I think may be pertinent: rounded hackle feathers, no hint of spurs, small comb, very little tail development, and although her (yes, I still believe it's a her) voice has lowered, it's more like hen clucks than rooster crows,( or attempts at it).
Will try to upload again tomorrow.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

This a cool mystery. Looking forward to the pics.

 

[Back2Roots]

... so here are two not so great photos, but they are recent, (as in they were taken yesterday). The black/blue coloured chicken is the one who was honking. When I let them out this morning, she sounded much more like a pullet than a goose - proper "boop boop boop" noises - so I'm cautiously optimistic that I have a girl.