Yep, other than getting a rooster as we live in the city limits. Fortunately our neighbors don't mind. But my husband does since it wakes him up every morning! I'm wondering if when our younger hens start laying (and she isn't the only one) she may chill out a bit and stop.
We have 6 hens, 3 of which are in their 2nd year of laying. We strongly believe that one of them (the only one laying right now) is crowing in the morning. We've been hearing what we thought was a rogue rooster in the field behind our house, but this morning my husband heard the crowing coming...
I read in my chicken raising guide that the rooster passes his genes to the female chicks and the hen passes hers onto the male chicks. I have a chick with an Auracauna rooster dad and unknown hen as a mother. The egg was spotted and brown (so the mom wasn't an Auracauna as the egg wasn't...