Cockerel Crowing

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Kessel23 said:
The amount of crowing will change with the seasons. If there are other rooster nearby then that can increase crowing to, my neighbor had a rooster a few years ago and every time he would crow all of my roosters would respond. Crowing is at its highest around March and April, this is the "breeding season" for chickens and the roosters will sometimes crow 5 or more times a minute and then take a little break and go at it again. Rooster will crow all day long to communicate with other roosters. A rooster can determine the strength of another rooster based on how loud and how often it crows. Roosters crow to say "this is my territory" and they try to intimidate other roosters. Cockerels usually start to crow at dusk and at dawn, when they are just off or still on the roost. When he gets older he will crow all day long.
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Thank you for all that information! That is exactly what I was wondering about!
 
Mine didn't get a real crow until around five months. The boys this year are three months and are crowing in parts still honestly it sounds more like a sneeze cocka....a....cheeeew.:)
MotherOfChickens said:
At what age, approximately, do they start crowing more and develop the "cockadoodledoo" crow?
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I have one young Sebright that started out only crowing in the morning. The other cockerel crowed at night. Then the first one started waking up at 4 a.m., before the sun was even remotely thinking about coming up, and crowing then. Put him outside, he stopped entirely. Got some older pullets, and he started up again, despite his voice being in the middle of changing, serenading them from the main coop (they're in a quarantine coop). Now he crows whenever he feels like it, but he's so quiet that I can't hear him in the house, even though I can hear the rooster a mile away whenever he lets loose.
 
Zinjifrah said:
I have one young Sebright that started out only crowing in the morning. The other cockerel crowed at night. Then the first one started waking up at 4 a.m., before the sun was even remotely thinking about coming up, and crowing then. Put him outside, he stopped entirely. Got some older pullets, and he started up again, despite his voice being in the middle of changing, serenading them from the main coop (they're in a quarantine coop). Now he crows whenever he feels like it, but he's so quiet that I can't hear him in the house, even though I can hear the rooster a mile away whenever he lets loose.
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I love my lil cockerel lol... But he will probably be going to my dad's lol
 
Depends how old he is, cockerels that first begin crowing hardly crow at all, then they really start crowing a lot once they mature. Mine use to crow 5 times a day when he was young. Now it's like 24/7.
 
alexa009 said:
Depends how old he is, cockerels that first begin crowing hardly crow at all, then they really start crowing a lot once they mature. Mine use to crow 5 times a day when he was young. Now it's like 24/7.
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Yeah he is just a young thing at 11 weeks. He has only been crowing for 3 weeks
 

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