My Hen just crowed!

[daisy mae's dad]

My year old EE "Daisy Mae" just crowed? It was a good crow. Not loud but she had all the right inflection! Any thoughts as to why/how? I've seen her lay an egg so I'm sure she's a she!

 

[jdavis]

i have had some asian game hens to try and crow i asked the same question to some of the old guys around here and they say it happens sometimes, that the hens are just trying to mimmick the roosters, also said that years ago people believed it was bad luck and would put the crowing hen in the freezer. i have only had it to happen a few times and only with my asians, one malay hen and one saipan hen, i have also seen my asil hens try to crow but no noise comes out past a kind of a screech. it is pretty neat in my oppinion to see a little hen trying to crow i dont see it as bad luck at all, just the jungle fowl coming out in them.

 

[MamaMarcy]

Just wanted to let you know I have an English Mastiff named Dasiy-Mae.

 

[Birde]

Ive heard that if they have no roo that they will sometimes do that

 

[GoldenSparrow]

Congrats! now if your neighbors complain about the "rooster" you can honestly answer "I only have hens! "

 

[ChickenPeep]

 

[Roosterlover5]

Iv heard of hens doing that.Sometimes they even grow feathers like a rooster.

 

[GoldenSparrow]

Quote:ChickenPeep wrote:

Quote:Roosterlover5 wrote:
Great signatures!!! people!

I believe there is only one way to fix a crowing/rooster hen.
gosh I cant remember it. I will see if I can find it.

Like roosterlover5 said.
sometimes when they molt they will get rooster feathering. as well as larger wattles and combs.

 

[ChickenPeep]

Great signatures!!! people!

Thank you!

 

[daisy mae's dad]

Thanks for replies folks. She hasn't crowed again and it's not because she's in the freezer! I thought it was very interesting, funny and strange. She has never heard a rooster crow so for her to make this new sound I was very surprised. I work at home and my hens can see me from their run while I'm sitting at my desk. They often give me what my daughter calls the "Chicken Eyeball" when they want some free range time; which is always or at elast anytime I look their way. It was as if she thought "let's try this and see if he gets off his rump". It worked.

Looked through a few Googled pages and saw stuff like she's going through a gender change, she'll stop laying, etc. All a little extreme. No more crowing, and I'm still getting eggs.
I'll never forget it though.. neck stretched, head through the fence, eyeball looking right at me and err, ah err, uh, errr! twice.