can hens crow???

[tiki244]

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That's sounds very interesting and very gross at the same time. I always hear about bits of reproductive system coming out attached to eggs etc. Did it hang out, shrivle and drop off or did you have to had it removed once it happened?

Maybe It's like when fraternal twins are born as one person. Eg the flesh has one set of DNA and the blood the other. They have to stay on immuno-suppresants their whole lives to stop their body rejecting itself. Perhaps this was the same in your hen but the reproductive system was the bit with the different DNA so the body rejected it and forced/grew it out of the body. Like some people get with earrings, the skins shifts around it until the skin is so thin it just falls off.

I bougtht her as an older hen so don't know what she went through before I got her. Her egg laying aparatus was 'layed' by her one day and was stuck on her a little but then became detached. I didn't know what it was at first but on further inspection it looked exactly like the pictures. And she seemed fine afterwards and lived a long life.

That was my first hen that crowed and I had many since then. Nobody else expelled anything that I know of.

 

[mekaboyer]

I have never heard any of my hens give the traditionally thought of "cock-a-doodle-do" crow but have heard them give an almost parrot type "brock", if that makes any sense.

Mike

 

[speckledhen]

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That's my point, one maybe, but three? Not much chance of that happening. I keep coming back to see some pics of these birds, too. Hope she can get some up for us curious folks!


Hens make all sorts of sounds-they have a varied language, certainly. However, a crow is distinctive. Yes, some hens do crow, I'm sure-have seen the Rosecomb video and that is a definite crow, but any old slightly different loud noise by a hen isn't a crow to me, even my dear departed Maxie's cow-like bellowing.

 

[tiki244]

My hens do make quite a few noises, but when one crows or attempts to crow it is definitly distinctive.

But I agree with Speckledhen that 3 hens crowing is a bit much. pics please

 

[mekaboyer]

This is what my hens sound like, this usually lasts about 2-5 minutes, I caught her as she was finishing.

 

[juliechick]

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That's just cackling. All chickens do that, male and female.