In The Absence of a Rooster, can hens ever crow???

[SandyC]

I THOUGHT I had all pullets, but my two white Buffs have started crowing. It isn't very loud and they only do it when I come into their coop. They are about 20 weeks old and are larger than my americaunas hens. I am getting suspicious though. I have looked at some pictures of White Buff Roosters, but I just can't be sure. Any thoughs?

 

[AtRendeAcres]

do you have a picture?

 

[SpottedCrow]

A picture can be worth a thousand words.

I DID have a crowing hen, but she was a true Hermaphrodite. One in a million and I didn't buy a lottery ticket.

Buff is a colour not a breed, just so you know...

If you have White Orpingtons or White Rocks, they're a heavy breed so that may not mature as fast as your EE's.

 

[SandyC]

THanks for the correction on color! OK...I have White Orpingtons. I am pretty sure they are roosters now. I wll see if I can get a picture, but from what my chicken friend told me to look for on them, I think someone goofed!!!!

 

[SpottedCrow]

Even if you get sexed chicks at a hatchery there's a 75% chance that you will get girls, but there's still that 25% of a boy slipping through.
You're welcome.

 

[rooster-red]

Do they have the beginnings of spurs on their legs?

 

[Frozen Feathers]

I have a hen who has spurs...I know it's a hen because of her feathering and the fact she lays eggs, so it's not always just roos who have spurs.

 

[SandyC]

Hmmm...I am pretty sure they are roosters. I am going to get a picture and post it.

 

[buckbeak]

I thought for a little while that I had a crowing hen, but that was just when I was in Rooster denial.

 

[thndrdancr]

I have a hen that crowed one time. Not sure what was up with that, but I think she was just feeling her cheerios and didnt know how to express it.