Crowing hen... really!

[Stephine]

I posted before the fire that one of the hens in my coop was starting to crow along with the roo. It was a lousy crow in comparison, but she was crowing. I heard it a few days in a row but she‘d only do it when in the coop ao I never saw who it was. Most of my eggs look the same so except for the Welsumers I can‘t really tell who’s laying what or who might not be laying at all. Now after the fire I have not heard the crowing hen anymore. Bizarre. I thought if it was a physical thing for the hen it wouldn’t just go away again. Or would a hen ever crow to assert her standing? The roo was relatively new and a year younger (still a cockerel, at 5-6 months). Just wondering...

 

[Kessel23]

Usually hens start to crow once they stop laying, I think it is the result of some hormonal thing, maybe.... I have a young cockerel who also only crows inside the coop, he just started a few days ago. I'm not sure why he does it but I have not seen him crow while out in the run or out free ranging, just in the coop.

 

[aart]

Have had a hen crow, during winter when she wasn't laying.
Took me a week or two to catch her in the act so I knew who it was.
Here how you can tell
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/