My pullet is crowing

[Abriana]

Read it somewhere online and then someone said something about it on another thread.

 

[Abriana]

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

Thats funny, "I know she just crowed but she isn't a rooster. I'm not kidding!"

 

[ChickNanny13]

I just realized I already had one picture of her handy -- I realize this isn't a great one for evaluating her type, but it's all I have right now. At least you can see part of her!
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She is BEAUTIFUL and a definite SHE. I had an Orpington pullet crow Checking with the breeder, told some pullets/hens do crow and I read about it on BYC! She was not soft either She went back to the breeder, no one believed it was a pullet crowing...

 

[andreanar]

They are both beautiful birds! I had a Brahma hen take over the rooster role after we got rid of him. She watched the sky and yard, called the others for food and alerted to any danger. But she never crowed, lol.

 

[Abriana]

I have a hen that probably would do that if i got rid of my rooster. She hardly listens to him, and she enjoys telling the hens what to do. She is very small, petite, much smaller than the other hens, but she has a big attitude. When a mean rooster was in my flock, she was the only one he would not mess with. She has not crowed but my Bantam has (i know she's a hen because she has raised three batches of chicks and will soon be working on her fourth).

 

[debid]

I had four butch Welsummers in my first batch of chickens. None crowed but they had beastly spurs even as pullets. I posted pics and was told they had a hormonal problem. All four of them.

They all laid normally and I still have one (she's still laying well after all these years!) Her spurs are occasionally clicking together when she walks now so I was just reading about trimming them.

Her manly behaviors include tidbit calling and mounting the others but she submits when I'm around and lays eggs so I'm thinking gender fluidity isn't such a crazy thought.

 

[Abriana]

I have a hen who is very submissive but has large spurs (large for a hen in my flock). She is so quiet i have no idea where she is on the pecking order, somewhere in the middle, but she does not try to mount and doesn't tidbit.

 

[imjustme247]

I have a pullet who is crowing too!