Our GLW hen is crowing! Idenity crisses?

tabatha_westcott

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Jan 18, 2009
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This morning we heard our hen let out a crow. (More like a scream) We thought she was in distress but she was just fine. Strutting around the yard crowing like a roo. We did have a roo that she was raised with and recently had to give him away because of the neighbors. Is she missing him or having an idenity crisses? She IS a hen. Been laying eggs for about a year now.
 
Maybe she is taking over the alpha role that had belonged to the rooster.
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Its called, boringly enough, "hencrowing." Often , in a flock without a rooster, or one that is yet to become dominant, a hen will step into to the dominant position. What people will call the "alpha position."

Never really a crow, per se, it can be pretty loud and in my experience, pretty wicked sounding. It reminds of what a banshee must sound like.
 

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