Ameraucanas and crowing

[wjallen05]

I have an Ameraucana rooster (yes an Ameraucana, not Easter Egger...) who is nearly one year old. He has never crowed. I have read that they are quiet or slow to mature. Do you think he'll continue to not crow? We are not "supposed" to have livestock (other than horses) where we are moving (though technically, chickens are not livestock, isn't this correct?) although it's 5 acres and in the country. I am going to pretend like I didn't know, but if I have roosters crowing that might become a problem.

 

[texasgal]

I'd say you're lucky ... mine is 4 1/2 months old ...



... all ....day ... long .... lol

 

[Goose and Fig]

I have a splash wheaten roo in one coop with all the girls, and he does not crow. I have a wheten roo in another coop by himself (waiting for the girls to get big) and he crows alllllll day long. And I can hear him at the house 1/4 mile away.

They're funny like that.

 

[cottagegarden]

I never hear a peep out of most of my Roos. The only one that crows is a cockerel in with some gals and an EE cockerel.
My DD has a pair of Bantam Blue Wheatens and he crows in the am for a little bit.

 

[speckledhen]

Whether chickens are livestock or not depends on the laws for your location. In Georgia, poultry and livestock are two different things, at state level, but covenants will supercede the state definitions most of the time. He'll crow eventually, I promise. He's just a late bloomer.

 

[wjallen05]

Do you know how I can find it wether they are "poultry" or "livestock"? Also, isn't the legal definition of livestock "any animal that is raised for profit"? I will not be raising them for profit. Also, the neighbor raises Beagles. How is that any different?

 

[speckledhen]

To you and me, raising dogs is worse than raising chickens in a neighborhood, but the laws are weird. Go online and check out the ordinances for your county in GA, then go into your city's ordinances, if you are in the city limits. Check out "___County, GA ordinances" in a Google search or something similar. Mine are online and I'm in a teensy town. For instance, in my county, the definition of "animal" excludes livestock, but there is no mention of livestock after that. There is a vague reference to obnoxious noise common to the species disturbing the peace of a "generally accepted residential neighborhood or subdivision" here, but I rather doubt they could enforce that since we are not zoned out here in the county for or against anything like poultry.

 

[Tailfeathers]

I have a Wheaten, Blue Wheaten, and Splash Wheaten Roos. The W & BW roos were named General Grant & General Lee respectively. Given the propensity of my BW to crow, I am not calling him Johnny Reb! Let's just say he's loud and non-stop all day long! The other two aren't two bad.

With regard to "poultry" vs. "livestock", that reminds me. Washington State is now trying to pass legislation to allow the State to fine anyone transporting livestock without "the proper permits". When I asked, I was told poultry and waterfowl qualified as livestock. That will make it illegal for folks to travel to shows now without some "proper permit".

God Bless,

 

[Mahonri]

I had a Splash Ameraucana roo that didn't crow for 9 months... I then sold him.

My BW crows non-stop from about 6:30 to 7 AM and then infrequently the rest of the day. AND he's not loud like my GC Marans.

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Well I have about 30 juvenile chickens together right now, we're just waiting for "spring" so we can separate them into coops. I have about 10 to 12 roos. The ONLY roo who crows is the smallest one. My grandson's Fawn Golden Duckwing OEGB. I have Mottled Cochins, Jersey Giants, other OEGB's in there but the tiniest roos has the biggest mouth! Go figure!

Laurie