My Hen Crows

[SunnyB1]

My husband brought home a young hen from the ranch of woman he worked for. She was the only bird left and rats had invaded the coop. She was around five months old. We introduced her to my other chickens, but the girls would have nothing to do with her. They cornered her in the coop and pecked at her. I placed her in an extra large dog kennel with a food and water set-up, shavings covered the floor and a nesting box. I would take her out and pet her daily. I named her Penny. After three weeks, I got my first egg, then four days later I got a second. She sings her egg song, which is soft and sweet. Two weeks later, I woke up to crowing. Not at the crack of dawn, thank goodness, well after the sun comes out which is a good thing. She doesn't fail to miss a morning
So, everything I've read stated, that it's a dominant hen that starts to crow or an older one. This is a young hen that just started to lay eggs, she is separated from the flock so she isn't being the leader of anything, and there have never been any roosters around her to learn how to crow. I can't put her in the coop, the other hens are mean, they were raised all together as chicks. HELP!

 

[sourland]

Crowing is not limited to dominant hens. In some cases there is a hormonal factor, but from her picture that bird is all hen. I have had birds a long time and unable to determine what causes crowing. I have had some crow their entire lifetime, some crow sporadically, and others crow for only a short span of time.

 

[PrettyChickens15]

One of my senior RR hen tries to "crow" sometimes. She lays eggs, but shes really dominant unlike your girl and we used to have a rooster so she has heard him crow.

I'm not sure Penny would have to hear a crow to know how to make one.

Is penny staying in the dog kennel all day?
Is your flock free ranged all the time/partly/not at all?
Are the chickens able to see penny in the dog kennel?
Can you put the dog kennel in your coop were your chickens can see her daily and get more used to her without them being able to peck her too much threw gaps in the kennel?

It can take a while for the pecking order to get established with a new hen. Sometimes there just has to be pecking and fighting to figure things out.