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    Hen is now a rooster?

    This describes my situation as well although she is a Buff Orp. Interestingly she is not the boss, the Silverlace is. I'm going to play this out for a little longer. As noted in my other reply, closing them in at night seems to be working and fortunately no day crowing yet.
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    Hen is now a rooster?

    Aart, There is no male in the flock..all hens. I have only six chicken at this time. two are silver lace, 2 are australorps, and the others including the "Rooster" are Buff Orpingtons. I can only hope she stops. I've now been locking them all in the coop each night and so far that has stopped...
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    Hen is now a rooster?

    She is two years old so I'm petty sure she's a hen. She's been laying up till a month or so ago. I guess I'll wait and see although time is not on her side.
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    Hen is now a rooster?

    One of my hens recently started crowing at 5am religiously. I thought it was some weird anomaly and looked it up online. Apparently there is a condition due to hormones, where a hen will take on the characteristics of a rooster including crowing. I can't tell if she stopped laying since I'm not...
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