How old are roosters when they begin to crow?

[cicene mete]

I have two 15-week-old cochins who have only crowed once or twice. On the other hand, I have a three-week-old cochin chick who is already crowing. Since the little guy is still in the house at night, and he starts at about 5:30 AM, I am ready to

 

[backforty]

My 2 slw are about 11 weeks old and I havent heard anything yet. Hmmm...maybe theyre shy.

 

[Cats Critters]

My earliest was 8 weeks but most of mine started at 12-13 weeks.

 

[jelmer]

I think it depends on the breed?

 

[PatS]

And maybe also on whether he's ever been exposed to other crowing birds?

 

[barngem]

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Must be common for these guys cause our Old English game Bantam still had his baby fluff and was crowing up a storm. Stupid me I erased the video clip we took of him doing his thing. He still is very proud of his crowing ability. He is a 1 1/2 years old now.
But we have a 9 week old Sumatra and he doesnt even attempt to crow yet? I was begining to wonder if he actually will crow at all even after being around our other Roo. I thought maybe he would start after he heard Scooter do his thing all the time but it did not seem to influence him at all.

 

[Vanessabuffsnsilkies]

My 14 week old silkie crowed this morning for the first time. He cracks me up

 

[Cindy in PA]

My standard chickens usually crowed about 12 weeks. My bantam rocks are 7 weeks old & I've been hearing the gargling sound for a few days now. Can't wait until the 13 roos start to crow! They do hear my EE rooster since they are outside the last 3 weeks. We just finished the outside run (well it's temporarily finished) and I opened the door at 7 this morning & over half are out on the grass already. Not looking forward to crawling in to put them back tonight when they are too dumb to go in.

 

[Gwen]

At what age do the hens stop cheeping and start clucking?

I had no idea roosters crowed that early! I have 6-week chicks and all are still peeping. Hopefully they are all hens.

 

[Giammona farm]

Mine normaly start to make squaking noises around 8-10 weeks old and they start there first crow at 12-20 weeks old. They don't always follow what I said because they can start to crow at almost any age. But normaly they start to crow the weeks I said.