Do roosters cluck?

[FenDruadin]

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Crowing occurs long before the clucking sound. Harem leaders (mature roosters) only make clucking sound. The "tid bitting" call sounds similar and is made by both sexes even as juveniles. It calls flcokmates to a particularly good food source.

Okay, so what I'm hearing is "tid bitting" then? When does crowing & true clucking begin? And thank you!

 

[SteveBaz]

Im beginning to cluck and make weird sounds after living around these

LOL

 

[centrarchid]

My male games (fighting chickens) begin first bouts of crowing at about 7 weeks. Initial efforts are barely recognizable as crows although they do hold body upright with neck in s-shape characteristic of crowing. This lasts for a week or so and then become reduced in frequency until birds are about 12 weeks when it spikes up again and sounds a bit more like proper crowing. A final spike starts at about 20 weeks which typically continues with further improvement in quality. FUlly mature crows usually not realized until birds older than 6 months (24 weeks).

Clucking by hen does not initiate until first clutch of eggs within days of hatching. The "clucking" by rooster is made only by fully adult roosters and mine do it only in a free-range setting when harem is made up of hens trying to set clutches of eggs.

Let your birds breed naturally and record sequence of vocalization changes. You will notice many sounds made are produced throughout life but birds voice changes with maturation process.

Not all breeds mature at the same rate and some breeds seem to make fewer sounds. My red jungle fowl seem to have a broader vocabulary than any domestic breed.

 

[Momma on a Mission]

My SLW roo is 10 weeks old and is still peeping and a occasional clucking. He has not crowed yet. I have a RIR pullet (10 wks) that is clucking like crazy and the rest of the flock is peeping.

 

[centrarchid]

Some of the sounds people may be calling "clucking", especially with younger birds, is a contact call. It means all is clear, I am here. It the same call chicks make while foraging with mom.

 

[jlmrazek]

Haha i had a rooster that clucked all of the time and a hen that crowed really loud. well it was more like a scream....she did lay eggs Mabey i should have put her on hormones!!

 

[aoxa]

I find my roosters are very vocal and have different sounds for every situation. There is a certain sound for a warning, certain sound for showing them food, certain sound for 'flirting' and lots of other sounds they don't want us to know what they mean

 

[ADVaughn]

Gah...so we have this one Cochin bantam who has started clucking. Before this started we thought she was a roo because she sounded like a prepubescent boy. Squeaky and broken peeping. She is definitely clucking though. I need a straight answer, does clucking start before crowing or should crowing come first? She's 10-11 weeks old.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

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Crowing occurs long before the clucking sound. Harem leaders (mature roosters) only make clucking sound. The "tid bitting" call sounds similar and is made by both sexes even as juveniles. It calls flcokmates to a particularly good food source.

The funny thing is, with my chicks at this point, the only "I found something good" call I hear usually involves grabbing the food and running around like mad so nobody can take it from them. Which of course, the call only makes everybody pile on to try to take whatever tidbit was found.

 

[MigraineMan]

Our Black Australorp roo started making "rusty barn door hinge" noises at about 7 weeks. We took the birds out for regular field trips in the garden out back, which made the neighbor's dog bark. The roo started making a "bark" noise, probably patterning after the dog. He's making more rooster-ish noises now at 12 weeks, and one could definitely be classified as a "cluck."