Singers enjoy taking grit. Fresh water and greens are important to their diet including seeding grasses. Soft fruits may be taken. They will use a variety of nesting receptacles and make a cup-shaped nest. Two or three nests a season can be expected.
Singers suffer from mosquito and mite bites which often become infected.
They will live for around ten years with their best breeding from two to six years. First year hens can suffer from egg binding. The Grey Singer is monomorphic. There are very subtle visible differences the best method of sexing is to watch for the males to sing. The upper parts are grey-brown, crown lightly flecked and throat, breast and flanks are grey with darker flecking.