Crowing at 7 weeks?

[Lauriejill]

I am brand new to this site and to chicken keeping ....but I am already in love with my girls!!! I got 8 chicks from MPC but only one was supposedly sexed (the brahma) I have 4 silkies, two easter eggers, 1 brahma and one unknown. One of my easter eggers started crowing at 7 weeks. Is this usual for the breed? I cannot have any roosters where I live (suburbs, CA.). Now I am worried that there are several roosters. At what age do they usually start to crow? Thanks for your help.

LJ

 

[peepacheep]

My EE started crowing at 9 weeks and has not missed a day in the past 2 years. This morning my 9 week old Buff Brahma pullet let rip something between a gargle and a crow. "She' seemed quite pleased with 'herself'.

 

[Lauriejill]

Thats funny I didn't know pullets crowed..........this IS confounding me. Very Interesting. There is alot to learn. Thanks

LJ

 

[mboreham1]

can start crowing from 6 weeks to 26 weeks or later, my EE started crowing at 24 weeks, once he started he didnt stop, i live in Sacramento, in my suburb, no roosters so gave it to a friend who lives in Fair Oaks where they can have roosters.

 

[mboreham1]

no pullets dont crow, the above poster put the she in "", she thought it was SUPPOSED to be a pullet but like most people, she has found that her pullet has ended up as a rooster

 

[Brown Farmer]

Have not seen pullets crow. However, I once had an older hen who stopped laying, began crowing and made rooster like advances at other hens.
I once heard a strange sound come from a batch of 2 days old. While I watched, one of them took up the stance of a crowing rooster and let out the strange sound. It was quite comfortable doing it. It soon grew out of it and was not traceable.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Sexing is only 90% accurate. If it's crowing at 7 weeks, it's a boy. And no, it's not unusual for them to crow at that age. My main rooster started crowing at 4 DAYS old.

 

[Marshchick]

Looks MPC owes you one girl chicken!

 

[Katydid2011]

I'm waiting to see if any of my sexed pullets (now 7-weeks old) are cockerels. I have ten. As the mod mentioned above, sexing is 90% accurate, so odds are I have one cockerel in the group, albeit I can't see it and haven't heard a crow yet.

(I can't begin to tell pullets from cockerels until they're about ten-weeks old. If there's a boy in the bunch, I wish he'd hurry up and crow so I'll know!)