Our GLW hen is crowing! Idenity crisses?

[tabatha_westcott]

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.

 

[enola]

I have a hen that crows. Everybody said get a rooster, she will stop. She didn't. But, she only crows when the rooster is in the other pen with his "other" girls !

 

[yotetrapper]

Folklore says a crowing hen predicts illness in the household.

 

[tabatha_westcott]

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Oh no. I sure hope not... Im pregnant

 

[BarkerChickens]

Maybe she is taking over the alpha role that had belonged to the rooster.

 

[SandraChick]

It 's not too unusual for the lead hen to take on the role of a rooster (in the absence of one)...they will lead the flock and yes....they will often end up crowing.

 

[Davaroo]

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.