Do hens crow?

[rebelINny]

I know this should be a very DUH kind of question but........we have a chicken that is a cukoo maran cross with a rose comb and I have heard it crow. Not many times and I know for sure it was this chicken. The chickens are starting to lay now and my daughter (she collects the eggs everyday) swears up and down she got eggs that this chicken laid and the egg/eggs have been warm and dark brown (this is the only chicken that would be able to lay a dark brown egg). So seriously, do hens crow sometimes? I must add that when I heard this chicken crow we did not have any roosters.

 

[Desert Rooster]

Sometimes when there's no rooster the more dominant hen will take the rooster roll, they will even sometimes try and mount a hen

 

[annep]

Mine used to announce that she'd just laid...Thank goodness it was in the middle of the day, and not daybreak!

 

[MareeZoCool]

Chickens DO sing loud & strong! Some people MIGHT confuse the hen's song with a rooster's crowing?

 

[rebelINny]

Whew that is good to know! So I guess it really is a hen then! I thought for a second I got a he/she chicken LOL

 

[elmo]

Yes, you're not imagining things. The characteristic notes of a crow are quite different than the notes of an egg song, though. One of our now indisputable female chickens tried out an experimental crow a couple of times last summer. Scared the dickens out of me, because I had already rehomed all the teenage chickens I knew were cockerels and I worried I might have missed one.

The impostor's crow didn't sound exactly like a crow from a real rooster, but pretty close. We were never able to pin down which chicken was the culprit, because when we ran out there, she clammed up. Good thing, too. Roosters are illegal where we live, and I was just imagining how I was going to explain...


"But, officer, this crowing chicken is actually a hen, not a rooster!"

 

[ilief]

Years ago I had a black banty hen that would crow occasionally. The first time i saw it, i did not believe my eyes, and then i started watching her like a hawk. She didn't do it often, and never in the morning like a rooster would, just at random times. She also raised two clutches of chicks and she was a great mom.
We had a small flock of free range chickens and several roosters. She was not a dominant hen in any way, she stayed out of the way of the big girls.

 

[ilief]

There is a saying,

"Whistling girls and crowing hens
Always come to some bad ends."


So yes, some girls can whistle (not me) and some hens can crow.

 

[vigario]

Funny as I am new to the chicken raising and I purchased an Ameraucana that was labled a hen. She is supposed to be 4 months old. Today I went to let her and a couple of Rhode Island Red pullets out of their coop and I heard a crow come out of the coop. I am not sure what I have, I am only going by what the owner stated, but she has a small comb and no tail feathers like the pictures of an Ameraucana hen I found on this website.

Not sure what to do. I guess I just wait a while and see if she/he lays any eggs.

MV

 

[jaketheeggman]

I have a hen that is very noises but i know she is a hen