Chicken Hormones?

[LilChickCoop]

I have a crowing hen.... from all of the reading I have done here, it seems as if people are successful with the addition of hormones. I am not sure this is the route I want to take, but would at least like to know my options....Where do you get them? Do they really work? Should I just live with it?

 

[CMV]

Hormones are generally not used in the poultry industry. When folks talk about adding hormones to a flock I think they might be referring to getting a rooster. I have never heard of treating a crowing hen with hormones. It likely would not work because the crowing is a dominance thing and not a hormonal thing. I think you may just have to get used to the crowing hen.

Good luck.

 

[pgpoultry]

If you get a real rooster she will not crow.

 

[elmo]

Gee, there's one I've never heard of...giving hormones to a hen. Where did you hear or read about that?

 

[LilChickCoop]

I wish I could get a rooster... alas, I am running on the DL with the hens. I guess we will just put up with it- it's not that bad really. About 7-8 times each morning, she crows. Not quite as loud as a real rooster, but she does have quite the set of lungs on her.