My hen is crowing?

[Granny23]

My little rescue chicken from July 5th is trying to crow? She was approximately 5 to 8 weeks when I found her. The past 2 weeks we've been hearing these weird noises from the coop and today I heard it LOUD AND CLEAR. LOL. She was trying to crow! I understand with no rooster that hens will try it??

 

[Granny23]

Heres my oldest chicks. Pepper, the black australorp looks like a dang dinosaur. She is the one attempting to crow.
She's so sweet. Rosie is too the Aracana.

 

[Mamatomany123]

Can you get a clearer picture. I don't think that's a pure australorp. He looks to be around 5 weeks old and judging by that come is indeed a cockerel.

 

[JustBabyMargo]

Looks like he has a giant rose comb? If it is a rose comb than that is indeed a cockerel seeing as pullets don’t grow their rose combs out that big until they are at about laying age!

 

[Embracethechaos21]

Your hen is not a hen it is Roo, if your hen starts changing into roo it is because of Certain medical conditions—such as an ovarian cyst, tumor or diseased adrenal gland—can cause a chicken's left ovary to regress, the production of androgen would cause the hen to undergo behavioral changes and make it act more like a rooster. However Hens don’t act like cockerels because there isn’t a cockerel, there is always a dominant hen and hierarchy no need for a male presence. So if your then hen starts to act like a roo get some masculine features it’s because she has a health issues. But at that young an age it’s a roo and was always a roo

 

[chikins]

My little rescue chicken from July 5th is trying to crow? She was approximately 5 to 8 weeks when I found her. The past 2 weeks we've been hearing these weird noises from the coop and today I heard it LOUD AND CLEAR. LOL. She was trying to crow! I understand with no rooster that hens will try it??

can depend on the breed, but are you 100% sure she’s not a roo? that age is very possible for her to just have been mistaken as a hen. and some breeds hens crow

 

[Granny23]

Ok, hold on..This chicken was probably somewhere between 5 and 8 weeks when she showed up in my side yard. We questioned her breed too because of her facial coloring...very similar to a tortoise shell cat. Some thought she was a turkey because of her dark legs and odd colored face! My community chipped in and from pictures we decided she looked most like an australorp or a mix of one.
We bought a 3 week old chick for company, an Aracana, named Rosie and they are attached at the hip. Where one goes the other follows. My granddaughter hand raised them inside while we were trying to build something outside that they would be safe in. Then we bought 2 more after we got a coop set up and Pepper immediately started to be really bossy so we've kept them more separate until the 2 smaller ones are big enough to defend themselves as Pepper can be relentless.
Her comb is barely there and has just started popping up.
Do roosters hang in such closeness with the hens scratching and peeping to one another ALL THE TIME? I thought they were more solitary. These 2 sit together, dust bathe together too.
Hope these pictures are helpful. It will suck if Pepper is a rooster because we can't have loud crowing where we live.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Ok, hold on..This chicken was probably somewhere between 5 and 8 weeks when she showed up in my side yard. We questioned her breed too because of her facial coloring...very similar to a tortoise shell cat. Some thought she was a turkey because of her dark legs and odd colored face! My community chipped in and from pictures we decided she looked most like an australorp or a mix of one.
We bought a 3 week old chick for company, an Aracana, named Rosie and they are attached at the hip. Where one goes the other follows. My granddaughter hand raised them inside while we were trying to build something outside that they would be safe in. Then we bought 2 more after we got a coop set up and Pepper immediately started to be really bossy so we've kept them more separate until the 2 smaller ones are big enough to defend themselves as Pepper can be relentless.
Her comb is barely there and has just started popping up.
Do roosters hang in such closeness with the hens scratching and peeping to one another ALL THE TIME? I thought they were more solitary. These 2 sit together, dust bathe together too.
Hope these pictures are helpful. It will suck if Pepper is a rooster because we can't have loud crowing where we live.


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He’s a cockerel and not a pure australorp due to his pea comb. He actually looks like a gamefowl mix. The brown pullet with him is an Easter egger.

 

[Painted Calls]

He’s a cockerel and not a pure australorp due to his pea comb. He actually looks like a gamefowl mix. The brown pullet with him is an Easter egger.

Agreed.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Ok, hold on..This chicken was probably somewhere between 5 and 8 weeks when she showed up in my side yard. We questioned her breed too because of her facial coloring...very similar to a tortoise shell cat. Some thought she was a turkey because of her dark legs and odd colored face! My community chipped in and from pictures we decided she looked most like an australorp or a mix of one.
We bought a 3 week old chick for company, an Aracana, named Rosie and they are attached at the hip. Where one goes the other follows. My granddaughter hand raised them inside while we were trying to build something outside that they would be safe in. Then we bought 2 more after we got a coop set up and Pepper immediately started to be really bossy so we've kept them more separate until the 2 smaller ones are big enough to defend themselves as Pepper can be relentless.
Her comb is barely there and has just started popping up.
Do roosters hang in such closeness with the hens scratching and peeping to one another ALL THE TIME? I thought they were more solitary. These 2 sit together, dust bathe together too.
Hope these pictures are helpful. It will suck if Pepper is a rooster because we can't have loud crowing where we live.


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I agree he is definitely a he. That comb at his young age as well as the crowing cannot be denied.

To answer the question of if it is normal rooster behavior to hang close to the hens....YES, yes indeed.
Chickens are flock animals. Males gather a harem of females and protect them, dance to them, tidbit for them, show them where a good place to lay eggs is and much more. They are a part of the flock just as another hen is. They have a roll to fill within that flock.