How do you coax a rooster into crowing?

spiffwilkie

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Mar 22, 2011
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We have several 11 week old chicks. We don't want to give some of them away if we're not 100% sure they aren't pullets. We know that at least one of them has found his crow, but we're not sure which one. Is there a way to coax a cockerel to crow? We just want to be able to identify exactly which one it is.

Thanks!
 
Well, we think we probably have 5 cockerels out of the 6 chicks that hatched (I had another thread on identifying them). My wife wants to make 100% sure which are cockerels, though. Specifically, there are 2 barred rocks. One of which we know is a cockerel since my wife saw it crowing this morning. But since she just saw it out the window and we can't really tell them apart, I'm not allowed to get rid of either of them until I can 100% identify which one was crowing.
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I actually just downloaded a couple of audio clips from YouTube of roosters crowing, and I spent 10 minutes out in the yard seeing if I could get a little something out of any of them. They mostly just seemed scared.
 
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I am unable to convince them to crow on their own. My temp solution is to tag the leg of one of each kind of chick (we have 3 pair) so that if I see one crowing out the window in the morning I can at least tell which one it is.
 

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