Do some rooster not crow at all??

[Chickens in Elmwood]

My 14 week old BO cockerel is even quieter than all the girls. He rarely makes a peep of any kind. The only time he ever says anything is if someone tries to steal his treat. Then he BWACKS and puffs up his feathers. Otherwise...nothing.

 

[chookchick]

Dream on.....If someone has a rooster that truly doesn't crow, please contact me, because I would loooove to have a rooster. Any rooster will crow if he is not kept is his place by the top roo. Some take awhile to find their crow, but it will happen!

 

[Chicken Ninja]

I'd personally be thankful that he's not started his crowing yet...

I've heard that rooster crowing can be quite annoying: random fact (I heard it's true) a rooster can't crow unless his neck is fully extended.

 

[Attack Chicken]

You all are lucky. I have a leghorn who started crowing at 2 weeks old...wasn't much of a crow, but it was a crow.

 

[Jameberlin]

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I was going to ask the same thing.

My RIR didn't crow a peep until i got rid of my packing peanut turned attack chicken. Now he only crows when i'm not out there (i take this to be submission).

 

[saddina]

A second place roo often won't crow untill alpha roo is gone. Ours looked pretty androygnious (it's 2 am i'm sure i spelled that wrong), untill alpha roo was gone, within 2 weeks our 2nd place roo was a crowing manly fool.

Someone designed a "cock box" basically a nesting box that shuts, so her roo can be in there at night, since he can't extend he doesn't crow till she lets him out later in the AM.

 

[ravencreek]

Well for 13 months I thought I had all hens...Then one day my Turken roo decided he would step up to the plate and he crowed for the first time. After he crowed I had 3 others decide they would take a stab at it. All my "hens" turned out to be mostly roos. So out of 15 I ended up with 3 hens and 12 roos. So I go from all hens to almost all roos in just 2 days.

All but 1 roo was rehomed to save my poor hens.

 

[raspeary]

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I agree. I had a cornish rock rooster and a buff orp rooster that was crowing (or at least attempting) to crow at 2 months. My 2 rhode island red roosters at 12 weeks haven't started crowing yet.

I won't know then the RIR's will. All my roosters but the cornish was sold because I can't keep roosters. DH says I can't have more then 6 chickens (I have 7 girls now). The poor cornish is now in the freezer.

 

[highcountrychickens]

Aaah the quest for the crowless rooster...

 

[Jen4]

Only our lil bantam rooster crows... we have 3 Buff Orpington roosters that are the same age (15 weeks old) and I havent heard them crow yet?