At which age will a Rooster start crowing?

[Namble]

I have 4 six week old roosters. But when will they start to crow? I can't wait to hear them crow! Its going to be cool.

 

[speckledhen]

I've had them crow as young as five DAYS old and as old as eighteen weeks old. Most seem to crow between six and twelve weeks sometime. No set time.

 

[Mahonri]

I had one that didn't even attempt to crow until he was 9 months.

 

[CarriBrown]

Stupid crowed at a couple of weeks. Kip didn't crow until he was a few months.

 

[Namble]

OMG speckledhen! one of your roos crowed a 5 days! how is that possible?????????

 

[speckledhen]

Well, it sounds more like "Buh-REET!". The first time it happened, I told my DH that we had one weird chick, that it stretched up its neck and made this weird trilling sound. He did it over and over and finally, the next day, my DH said, well, he looks like he's crowing. BINGO! Sure enough, he was. It was a black Ameraucana, a definite rooster that I kept for a long time. The second one I had crowed at seven days old, a Lt. Brahma and a third was one of the BBS Orpingtons, all were male.

 

[georgialee]

Well, I just heard on of mine crow for the first time yesterday - he's 7.5 weeks.

 

[tash]

Quote:

we just watched "Home on the Range" last night and in the begining there is a rooster sleeping on a roof and a little chick comes up and crows really loud and the roo falls off the roof...

 

[wendid1]

One of our roo just started day before yesterday. Still hasn't got it figured out all the way. He is 11 weeks.

 

[cybercat]

Hmm trilling. Yes, I heard that yesterday morning out of my two week old pullets that I know there is at least one roo. To bad I did not see it.