Hubby told me that hens can crow!!

shay20

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Hello, so i have learned from my hubby that hens can crow, he raised a poultry farm in Puerto Rico growing up, and he has seen it happen.
So when i see post on here about there hen crowing, i say yep it can happen,
( but i have not seen it yet in my own eyes) THAT IS TILL NOW!!! LOL

I have a golden seabright that layed out a pathetic crow the other night, she is young. i told hubby, he sayd to me are you sure it is a girl? I said most definitly, has no saddles nor hackles.

he says watch it be a boy, i said no way,

well guess what, he went to check on them last night and guess what he found in her area, HER FIRST EGG!!!!
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I said HAHAHA Told you.

So now i see it with my own 2 eyes,- A HEN CAN CROW- Actully she is a pullet, but yep.
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I have a golden seabright that layed out a pathetic crow the other night, she is young. i told hubby, he sayd to me are you sure it is a girl? I said most definitly, has no saddles nor hackles.

Seabright roosters can come "normal feathered" and Henny feathered (Hf).

Henny Feathering: Hf
An autosomal incomplete dominate gene causes female-type plumage structure and (if applicable) plumage pattern and colors on males.
It works by affecting the hormones in the feather follicles, and is a breed characteristic of Campines, Henny Game, pullet-breeder Pencilled Hamburghs and Sebrights.

As for hens crowing, I read on here that they can if conditions, hormones etc. are right.

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I have a Golden Sebright hen that crows. Let me tell you it is not weak or pathetic she belts out those crows.

We are not allowed roosters where I live which we knew but the old neighbor turned us in. You should have seen the AC Officer's face when I told him that Lilac is a hen not a rooster.

Here she is, my little crower.
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Yeah, both my golden sebright hen (the junior one in the pecking order) and my boss hen, an old Australorp, tend to crow. Usually first thing in the morning. Margaret Hatcher, the Autralorp, is pretty loud, but doesn't sustain it more than a couple minutes. Stella, the banty sebright, will happily crow all day long, especially when she's laying.
 
When I was a kid and my sister whistled all the time. My mother thought whistling was very un-ladylike and would tell her “A whistling woman and a crowing hen, neither one comes to any good end.”
One of our hens started crowing. We had chicken and dumplings for supper. My sister’s urge to whistle decreased significantly
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