How young will they crow?

[Chickem707]

Napolean sounds like he's going to be a real character.
I've got 8 roosters/cockerels here now and over the years I've had a lot more and I've never had one try to crow at 11 days!.....a month maybe.

8 roosters? Wow! How do you handle them all? Or how many hens?

 

[BantyChooks]

I've had maybe 50 roosters, I don't keep track. None of them started crowing very early, but I had one start sparring my hand at under 24 hours old.

 

[Folly's place]

My earliest crower was a Fayoumi, at 28 days. It was hilarious! He was never aggressive, just cute.
The cockerel that I had who was charging me at eight weeks of age was a real jerk, and went elsewhere and into the crock pot.
Mary

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

The earliest one of my cockerels crowed was about 2 1/2 weeks.....
I have one cockerel now at 13weeks and he has YET to crow!

 

[Folly's place]

I've noticed that the younger boys in my flock may crow later, being more submissive to the adult roosters. One of my EE bantam cockerels hasn't said anything yet, and he hatched in early May. He is interested in the girls, but very cautious.
Mary

 

[BantyChooks]

The earliest one of my cockerels crowed was about 2 1/2 weeks.....
I have one cockerel now at 13weeks and he has YET to crow!

I've had some take over 6 months.

 

[Chickem707]

My head cockerel still hasn’t crowed at 5 months!

 

[Shadrach]

8 roosters? Wow! How do you handle them all? Or how many hens?

I have a rather different arrangement for the chickens I look after here. I have small groups or tribes which have their own coops. Each tribe has a rooster and some have two or more roosters/cockerels, father and son/s. I’ve had five tribes at most and now I have three with a new tribe about to form.
They are all free range during the day.
I rarely have any serious problems with the roosters; If they’ve got hens they’re usually happy.
Each group/tribe has at least four hens. The overall population fluctuates between twenty and thirty.
I tend not to have many of the problems I read about on these forums regarding ‘difficult’ roosters or overly aggressive hens.
Yep, it gets very noisy at times.

 

[Raptorchick]

My head cockerel still hasn’t crowed at 5 months!

He looks sweet My youngest rooster, Raptor, is 6 months, hes missing a wing and I wondered if hed ever crow... he's been trying to mount chickens the last month or so, but still no crow. Theres a stag pen with his brothers alongside, who crow like crazy, it could be that he lets them do the talking lol...