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[Frazzemrat1]

Agreed... pullets don't crow... hens can.

OP, you have a pullet, and I wonder if she was doing an alarm call or practicing her egg song...
or if one of your other pullets is an unnoticed cockerel.

 

[MROO]

Thank you!!

Any idea about this fake hen crowing? Lol

Are you sure she's trying to crow and not growling? Both of my alpha hens were growlers; it was how they alerted. One stopped when the cockerel matured. The other still growls, on occasion ... and it's weird!

 

[Chickassan]

I have a pullet this year that tries to crow.
She just started laying last week and there are two males here.
She'd try to chime in with the boys when they'd do the morning crow down.

 

[Ventucky57]

Are you sure she's trying to crow and not growling? Both of my alpha hens were growlers; it was how they alerted. One stopped when the cockerel matured. The other still growls, on occasion ... and it's weird!

It could have been a growl... i guess the timing threw me off because it was exactly at sunrise. We recently had another pullet that turned out to be a cockerel so I’m on high alert for any similarities.

 

[aart]

I have a pullet this year that tries to crow.
She just started laying last week and there are two males here.
She'd try to chime in with the boys when they'd do the morning crow down.

Well, now I've read it.

 

[so lucky]

I have a couple of pullets that honk. They sound more like a goose than a chicken. But they don't stretch their neck out or flap their wings, like cockerels do when they are attempting to crow, so I just assume it is ….honking.

 

[aart]

I have a couple of pullets that honk. They sound more like a goose than a chicken. But they don't stretch their neck out or flap their wings, like cockerels do when they are attempting to crow, so I just assume it is ….honking.

I love the 'honking stage', between peeps and clucks...it always cracks me up!

 

[cstephens1987]

I have the opposite problem. I have a cockerel who won't Crow and has recently started doing an egg song. He gets me all excited and then I go down to the coop to find Bruce Henner messing with me again.

 

[Ventucky57]

I have the opposite problem. I have a cockerel who won't Crow and has recently started doing an egg song. He gets me all excited and then I go down to the coop to find Bruce Henner messing with me again.

omg that’s hilarious.

 

[FluffTheDuck]

Pullet..