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She crows like a rooster - I swear!

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One of our hens, a barred rock, has been making a noise the last few days remarkably similar to a rooster, maybe missing a syllable of the familiar  "cockadoodledo."  I think she did the same thing about a year ago for a little while.  Has anybody seen this before?  Just curious!  She's still laying just fine and everything else is normal. 

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Crowing hens are a bit unusual, but not unheard of. Usually it's the most dominant hen that does it; I'm guessing that you don't have a rooster? The only crowing hen that I've had to date only did it when she (and her newly hatched chicks) were confined away from the roo. Crowing is a territorial display, so apparently it's the responsibility of the top bird to do it.

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Good to know!  Thanks!  And that's right - we don't have a rooster, and she's the most dominant. 

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