My pullet is crowing

[MrDeMaistre]

I have come to the following conclusion: your pullet is crowing. You might try giving her dolls to play with, maybe get her a frilly sun dress or put up pics of Zac Efron in the henhouse. Maybe change her name to Pinkbell. Worth a try.

 

[member 373180]

I have mostly bantams and I've noticed quite a few that try out crowing when they're young, most knock it off pretty quickly. However, I had a flock of sebrights and a lot of them crowed regularly when they were at laying age. I can't have that so when I processed them I confirmed they were full of eggs. For a while I'd take a crower out and a week later the next one would start. I think it may be a dominance thing in the absence of a roo.

 

[aart]

I do believe that chickens can be hermaphrodites...
.....with both male and female aspects in appearance and behaviors.
Will be interesting to see if she lays.

I have a hen that crows (a real cock-a-doodle-doo)even with a cockbird present.
She did it a lot when she was out of lay, and also acted a bit like a guardian as a cockbird would, then less after she started laying again.

 

[AUtiger]

I have a hen that always crows after she lays an egg, and won't be quiet till you come outside and acknowledge her achievement. It's embarrassing with the neighbors lol!!! I have to keep telling them she is not a rooster

 

[aart]

I have a hen that always crows after she lays an egg, and won't be quiet till you come outside and acknowledge her achievement. It's embarrassing with the neighbors lol!!! I have to keep telling them she is not a rooster

Cock-a-doodle-dooo crow or bakbakbak bagaw eggsong?

 

[AUtiger]

It's kinda both! Squak-bok-bok-a doodle doo (that's quite an onomatopoeia lol)

 

[Abriana]

As promised, here are pictures. The first two are my crowing pullet Bluebell. The third picture, just for comparison, is her full brother, who is the exact same age, the same colour (blue-based lavender) and clearly a cockerel. I don't have the patience to get a picture of her in the act of crowing -- she doesn't do it as much as a cockerel does. But you can see she is clearly a female!

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From these pics I'd say hen. Sometimes a hen will crow if there is no rooster, but obviously you have one. try rebalancing her hormones with some layer feed, if she is not already on it. My Dutch Bantam jumped up on the roosting bar and crowed, but she is a hen for sure because at the time of the crowing she had a brood of chicks. Maybe your hen just likes to crow?

 

[aart]

....try rebalancing her hormones with some layer feed.....

ssaaaaayyy WHAT?!?!

 

[Abriana]

Read it online. The layer has calcium, which hens need. If they don't have it, they slow down in laying and can pick up other habits, such as crowing and even mounting other hens.

 

[aart]

Read it online. The layer has calcium, which hens need. If they don't have it, they slow down in laying and can pick up other habits, such as crowing and even mounting other hens.

Oh, well, then it must be true.

Never heard of calcium affecting hormone levels...yes, hens need calcium to shell eggs and for the contractions that move them down the pike...but don't think it has anything to do with crowing or mounting.