11 week old rooster crows all the time, is it normal?

[Shadowgrass]

I love my girls, my rooster, I could take or leave. He starts crowing around 6:00am and will pretty much repeat every 2-5 minutes until I let them all out. Once they are out, he crows in salvos, like every 1/2-1 hour he will crow 3-10 times in a row, then I guess he is satisfied with himself and resumes looking for food for his girls. Sometimes he will go a couple hours. He found a big juicy slug and held it in his beak and clucked and danced around and the girls came running and he dropped it for them. So as far as that stuff goes, he's a good man. He is also very gentle on the girls, he has 6 and none of them are missing any feathers. The crowing though, sometimes goes to my bones. If I had a rooster that crowed as much as yours, I wouldn't hesitate. One word for that rooster: Pot. I have one rule and my wife and my kids know it. All the girls are safe, all males are subject to being eaten at any time, with or without cause. That's life. My 2 cents anyway. Good luck.

 

[farmerinKC]

I wish so much that I could have a rooster where I live-I really like to hear them crow-even early in the morning. I know-you all who live with roosters crowing all around you would probably tell me it can get annoying-but I think you are the lucky ones!

 

[AUChick9202]

Mine will be 13 wks tomorrow and he crows all the time too. So far, I have not heard him start crowing until after 8 am. I shut them up in the coop at night and he seems to stay quiet until I let them out in the morning, but after that he crows off and on the rest of the day.

 

[earnhardtlvr]

I just had to share my story. I never wanted chickens. I grew up in the country and my aunt had chickens. Mom would help her slaughter them and I normally had to go along. I would watch cartoons in the house, but geesh, it's hard to ignore the noise and smell from a bunch of chickens going to freezer camp. I ended up having to move back into my childhood home last year to take care of my mother. The DH started talking about wanting chickens. He loves eggs. My Daddy had built a smokehouse years ago when we used to have pigs. We converted the smokehouse. I said ok, a couple chickens, but NO ROOSTERS! When we moved back it became very irritating to b woken by the neighbor's roo every morning between the hours of 3am to 6am.

I have chronic insomnia to add to all of this too. So, I invested in a pack of ear plugs! I put them in each night and no more DH snoring, dog snoring, or roo on crack thinking 3am is when the sun comes up! So then when our "couple" chickens turned into 28

I convinced the DH we really only needed one roo and since we were ordering easily sexed birds, he could order a roo. Turns out there is a possibility that my easily sexed breeds might have been wrong and we might have 2-3 roos! They r 11, 12, & 13 weeks old now. We will be finding out shortly have many roo's we really have...even if we do have 3 I think I'm gonna keep them cuz they r all very friendly. Sorry for the ramblings! LOL

 

[BeetleChick]

I think Roo is adorable, he seems to be looking out for hisladies already. He has chased them inside the coop, then stands guard at the door. The crowing doesn't bother me because I leave for work early, my brother works afternoons/nights and likes to sleep in so the early crowing drives him nuts.

 

[BeetleChick]

Just an update... Roo is now 6 months old, since moving to the big new coop about 5 weeks ago and the ladies starting to lay about 7 weeks ago, he has quieted down considerably. He only crows a couple of times a day now. He also has a cute noise that he makes to answer the ladies egg song.