Kinda sad, Ollie has lost his crow

[gritsar]

We have grown used to the crowing contests between Impy, our turken cockerel and Ollie, our CX cockerel. These boys can go on for hours. Impy still sounds like a banshee, with a crow that's more like a screech, but Ollie had a fine cockle-doodle-do.
The other day I noticed that Ollie's crow was getting shorter. Yesterday it was down to just a cockle-doodle; today it's barely a do.
DH said he's worn out his crower by using it too much, but I feel that he's just gotten so large that he can't get the lung power necessary for a good crow going.
It's kinda sad.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

That is sad, poor Ollie.


If you had a recording of his crow, you could play it for him in place of his own voice.

 

[gritsar]

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You are really trying to give DH an excuse to have me committed, aren't you?

 

[Hillsvale]

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You are really trying to give DH an excuse to have me committed, aren't you?

Oooh

this bit would belong on the post about the weirdest thing you do with/for your chickens

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

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You are really trying to give DH an excuse to have me committed, aren't you?

Just thinking of poor Ollie and his missing crow.

Maybe practice with Ollie - getting him to beak-sync with this crow:

Make him the long crower of the flock.

I play this over and over for my gang - no one has extended their crow yet!

The first one who does, gets a free pass from freezer camp

 

[jettgirl24]

Ha! My boyfriend made a recording of our old BO rooster on his cell phone. He wants to figure out how to make it into a ringtone. LOL. I also caught him cueing it up to play for our new Blue Copper Marans roo.... I quickly ended that idea! That one needs to wait as long as possible (preferably until we move in January) so the neighbors don't kill me

 

[dandelionheart]

It'd be funny if you could train him to peck a button to get the recorded crow...