Cornish cross Crowing?

[Cheep a'lil Talk a'lil]

Do the Cornish Cross crow before they reach the 8 week mark?
I have a busy-body neighbor with nothing better to do then complain.

 

[Milliemay]

They sure do! Every morning at feeding time the cornish x's exchange words with all the other roo's. Quite funny to listen to.

 

[Judy]

Well, maybe you'll get lucky and yours won't. There's such a variation in when they start.

 

[cassie]

It depends. I have had a couple crow, but they weren't very loud and they didn't crow very much at all. Tell your neighbor if the crowing bothers her you will invite your motorcycle buddies over and they can drown out the chickens with the noise of their bikes.

 

[cheraboo]

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[UncleHoot]

From about 6 weeks on they may crow. But it's a pretty sickly sounding crow, and pretty quiet too. I have hens that make more noise.

 

[jaku]

In all the batches I've done, I've NEVER heard one crow, and I've had them get up to 10 weeks old.

 

[hildymarie]

Ours were probably 10 or 11 weeks when they started crowing. They started sickly sounding, pathetic and cute. After a few weeks they got really good at it, and loud and early and often.
After a few weeks I was ready to go out in the morning and wring their necks, daily.
The hens however are really quiet.

 

[lilmouthy]

My Cornish x are 14 weeks old today. I have 3 Roosters. One started crowing about 1 weeks ago,one just started the other day,and the 3rd has yet to crow. The 2 that are crowing,don't even do it everyday. The mornings that they do crow,they'll each crow 2 or 3 times then that's it for the whole day. They are not loud at all. They can be right outside the house and we can barely hear him.

 

[misspennyloise]

Yup! Out of 21 birds three crowed : 1 started at 5 1/2wks and the other two around 6 1/2 wks. It wasn't very loud but they definately crowed. I was concerned also about the neighbors but thank goodness they ran their AC alot. Oh, they were in the freezer at 7 weeks 2days and they weighed an avg. wgt of 7.2 lbs according to the processor...... So they weren't around long.

Good luck