HiEverybirdy
Crowing
Our Brahma cockerel has a distinctive, low-pitched crow. I've not heard another like it...until yesterday, when he crowed, and there was a faint echo of his crow through the woods. It happened a few times, but we're building a little homestead, I'm exhausted, so I chalked it up to losing my mind.
Until this morning, when it happened again. My Brahma crowed, and someone answered from the distance with an identical crow. Is it possible neighbors have a cockerel learning to crow from ours?
We're on the side of a mountain in a rural county, and roosters are very much allowed. I thought we knew everyone who got new chickens this year. We haven't heard of new roos in the hood. So while it's confusing there's a crowing sound coming from the direction it's coming from, it's downright extraordinary it sounds just like ours.
Do roosters mimic each others' crowing styles? If nobody answers this post, I'll have to don the ghillie suit in the a.m. to find this mystery chicken for my own sanity. TIA
Until this morning, when it happened again. My Brahma crowed, and someone answered from the distance with an identical crow. Is it possible neighbors have a cockerel learning to crow from ours?
We're on the side of a mountain in a rural county, and roosters are very much allowed. I thought we knew everyone who got new chickens this year. We haven't heard of new roos in the hood. So while it's confusing there's a crowing sound coming from the direction it's coming from, it's downright extraordinary it sounds just like ours.
Do roosters mimic each others' crowing styles? If nobody answers this post, I'll have to don the ghillie suit in the a.m. to find this mystery chicken for my own sanity. TIA