crowing hen

[3cutechicks]

Ok this morning I heard one of the step sisters crowing like a rooster. I went out there and she just kept crowing it was cute but annoying since we have neighbors. Eventually she stopped when I gave them some apples. What's up with that?

 

[enola]

My hen used to crow too ! Now, if she tries, the rooster pecks her on the head and she shuts up.....

 

[lisahaschickens]

how old are your chickens? Are you absolutely positive she's a hen?

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

If you are certain she's a hen, then this really isn't that uncommon. Basically, the girls are deciding that the abscence of a rooster means someone has to take charge. Your girl says, "Listen to me, you follow my orders now," and in return crows like a male would, trying to stimulate her status. If this continues, you may even notice her trying to mate the other hens, sometimes they will even grow spurs and stop egg-production.

 

[ticks]

Yeah, when there is no rooster hens will sometimes crow, I have experienced this after I took my rooster away from my birds. It's funny, not quite a full cock-a-doodle-doo, but you can here a crow.

 

[Alley]

One of my two girls crows and they have never lived with a rooster! Every morning she wakes me up, crowing at the top of her lungs! It cracks me up but it drives me nuts! LOL

 

[3cutechicks]

I have had them since august I think and they came from a ranch with roosters so they were use to roosters and hatching eggs. After I went out there and fed her apples she stopped. A friend of ours in 4H said she is probably the Alpha female and she is because she is always the one to tell me someone laid an egg.

 

[nakactress]

I have a crowing hen and she likes to mount the other girls and she's also my best layer.