My Speckled Sussex cockerel is 19 weeks old and for the first time today began crowing. I suspect his technique will improve with practice. Hopefully his SS siblings, EEs, and Doms will begin laying before too much longer. One Dom hen's comb and face are red now, and the other Dom and both SS pullets' are getting darker pink every day. Only one EE has developed any pink in face and comb, but I understand they may be a bit slower maturing. Patience is a virtue; not one of mine but a virtue nonetheless. http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j166/jmidjr/49b57d04.mp4
Those endearing first attempts sound sort of like someone gargling or clearing their throat. I have a speckled sussex pullet who has been laying for a few weeks now. The other day she began making the loudest, most tortured sounding noise! By the third morning of this, I've decided she's trying to crow. The "boks" get louder and higher and closer together and end in a long, tapered, wheezing "eeeeeeh!" She has adopted this as her morning ritual along with the two roos crowing their real crows.
