At what age did your rooster start crowing?

[urbanchickmama]

not sure. he came from a ranch that had over 30 different bantam breeds, so there's no way to know for sure. he's getting some nice red feathers on his back though....

ms.cluckling :

@urbanchickmama,
what breed is he?
hes very pretty​

 

[farmerChef]

My Ancona rooster started at 4 weeks. All the others (EE, penedesenca, Dominique ) started at 6 weeks.

 

[shellyga]

our second rooster didn't start crowing until just recently.. he is about 7 months old. He has done his rooster "thing" for several months but doesn't crow very often - still a rasping imitation of a crow..lol. I think he is more timid since he is not the dominate roo at all. Any crowing is done on the opposite side of the yard from our number 1 rooster.

I am relatively new to chickens so I don't know for sure. But I would imagine a roosters desire to crow may or may not be influenced by the presence of another- more dominate Rooster.

Both of my grown roosters are Buff Orpingtons

Shelly

 

[arenea74]

16 weeks for my boys. At 5:15 on a Saturday morning.

 

[Kidsdogsandchickens]

I have an 11 week old light brahma that I have suspected of being a roo for several weeks because of the bigger size and red comb and wattles. The "crow" started a couple of weeks ago. Was one time of what sounded like a child crying (scared me to death because I thought it was either mine or the neighbor kids!). Then nothing for about two weeks. Another couple of "crying" episodes this time witnessed it sitting on a perch and responding to the neighbors roos. Then again nothing for another week or so and yesterday, several minutes of "crying" again as if answering the neighbors roos.

Is this a normal pattern as a rooster learns to crow? I know people have said they sound funny...that is very true!

 

[CrestedGirl]

Mine started crowing at 4 weeks

 

[Faith Hope]

I had a silkie that started crowing around 14 weeks. At least I didn't have to wait too long to find out he was a rooster!

 

[Barrdwing]

We had an Andalusian that started crowing at five days old: "Pbbreepareep!" So did both of his sons. Precocious little stinkers.

Most of our other young roos start making noises like a flute being strangled at around 10-12 weeks old. It takes them a while to get it right, and they act pretty embarrassed about it: "Oh, gee whiz, that was not sexy at all. --Wasn't me! It was him, over there!"

 

[kara_leigh]

I have two that are 8 weeks that started crowing the past couple days, and one that is 7 weeks that started crowing today. Luckily, so far they only crow when I roll their brooder outside and get it in place. They crow a bunch of times, and then once they get out of the brooder they stop crowing. Hopefully they keep that up. lol

 

[cmom]

Most of my roosters started to try to crow around 8 to 10 weeks. They sounded terrible at first but got better with practice.