Crowing pullet...?

[azygous]

Cockerels all sound like anything but roosters when they are practicing their first crows.

I zillion years ago, before I grew up sufficiently to have a proper flock of chickens, I got myself a banty hen and rooster. They immediately produced eleven chicks, nine of which were cockerels. They roosted in a hedge beside my bedroom window and starting at 3am, practiced their incipient crowing which sounded like heavy smokers coughing up mucous, or at best, a crowd of seals with serious sinus infections.

After that, I rehomed them all and never got chickens again for another forty years.

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

Cockerels all sound like anything but roosters when they are practicing their first crows.

I zillion years ago, before I grew up sufficiently to have a proper flock of chickens, I got myself a banty hen and rooster. They immediately produced eleven chicks, nine of which were cockerels. They roosted in a hedge beside my bedroom window and starting at 3am, practiced their incipient crowing which sounded like heavy smokers coughing up mucous, or at best, a crowd of seals with serious sinus infections.

After that, I rehomed them all and never got chickens again for another forty years.

Oh my goodness @azygous you absolutely slay me! I'm imagining this unimaginable scene of horror playing out beginning at 3am.... 9, no, 10 banty cockerels!!! Good grief. I don't think I'll be letting them hatch any eggs! Yikes

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

*them-my banty couple!

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

She's a pretty little thing!

Thank you!! She's a purebred "Parking Lot Chicken"!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Thank you!! She's a purebred "Parking Lot Chicken"!

Lucky you, having something so unique!

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

When I bought Sunspot a Cochin chick for company (dubbed "Princess Poofy Pants" by my son, Fran strongly recommended I buy the two remaining banty Cochin's as well. I looked at the tiny peeps, looked at Fran (I was totally embarrassing & gushy when I first met her, I actually called her the "Chicken Oprah" ), then asked her, why? I didn't think Sunspot needed  three pets! Fran just shook her head and said it wasn't for Sunspot, it was for the Princess.
I had no clue, until that night, and the next night, and every night after!
Like clockwork...
Sunspot starts meeping around dusk, and when the shadows grow long, it turns to screaming if I haven't responded. She wants to fly up onto my shoulder, to snuggle with me. (Clearly I didn't learn not to allow chickens on my shoulder when that dang chicken ate my sapphire nose stud!)
Sunspot will completely ignore these frantic, pitiful cries from her own species, callously flying away so she can come inside the "Human Coop" as I call the house
Once she's on my shoulder, she will fall asleep so hard, it looks like I'm wearing a dead chicken. This bird is unreal.

The picture of them lined up on my arm is from a bit ago, but you can see Sunspot teaching her new friends how nice and warm humans can be!!

 

[gimmie birdies]

I hatched out 30+ chicks a couple months ago then got some straight run chicks, 50+ from hatcheries. I rehomed many hens and a few cockrels too (by request). I have processed about 9 roosters. I will have to address the rest of the roosters soon enough.

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

I hatched out 30+ chicks a couple months ago then got some straight run chicks, 50+ from hatcheries. I rehomed many hens and a few cockrels too (by request). I have processed about 9 roosters. I will have to address the rest of the roosters soon enough.

After moving to the place I'm at now, and after seeing just how many extra roosters there were, I made a mutually beneficial arrangement with a local family.
(I've processed and eaten my share of roosters, and I'm happy to pass it on! I just don't eat/like meat now.)
They're absolutely great, I'll call them every few weeks, and they'll happily take as many roosters as I can give them!

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

I also think

a proper flock of chickens

Can this be a technical term from now on??

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I also think

Can this be a technical term from now on??

Yes!