My Roo Doesn't Crow

[Bec]

I have a RIR bantam who was hatched out in the end of April, he doesn't crow either! I have a bantam cochin the same age and he crows alllll the time! He is my most frequent crower!

 

[joebryant]

If you have a rooster that doesn't crow now and never will, and it proves out to pass this genetic anomaly on to all its male progeny, you have a very serious problem. It's more than likely that you could get in trouble with ASPCA, lawsuits from unhappy egg customers who want to hatch fertile eggs and only to end up with wierd roosters. The list of potential problems is endless.
It is because of all this that I feel an obligation to try to save you from the foregoing described fate. Send that rooster to me, and I will see to it that it is managed in a manner that will never be a problem to/for you whatsoever.

 

[Shannonwbl]

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You are too kind!

 

[farmerlor]

We have a Buff Orp roo who doesn't crow but I believe it's due to some injury. He was a few months old when we found him laying on the ground and he couldn't seem to get up on his own. I know I should have culled him right away but he was supposed to be my breeding roo and he was so pretty I thought I'd give him a day or two. For weeks he sort of wobbled around staying rather stationary though he'd eat if you kept the food and water right by him. And inch by inch he started to get a tiny bit steadier every day. At this point he was still too young to crow so I really didn't think much about it but we finally put him back out with the girlies who for once didn't pick on someone new and he still didn't crow. To this day he's a little OFF, sorta walks off center and his run is especially comical but he's never crowed. I know he sustained some kind of neurological damage but I can't figure out what it could have been. Oh, but he is doing his job and he's still very beautiful so we keep him.

 

[Ariel301]

I have a 'no-crow' rooster too. He's a bantam EE. I bought him, a hen, and two of their offspring a few weeks ago and have not heard a crow out of either the rooster or the 10-week old cockerel. Which is fine by me. I'm going to hatch some eggs out of the pair when the hen starts laying again, so we will see if I have a crowless line. That would be great! My big Jersey Giant cross rooster starts crowing his head off at 2 am and goes off every couple of minutes until 7 or so, then crows again at breakfast time, and then in the afternoon for about half an hour, and then any time someone walks past the pen...I keep him in a covered cage inside the horse trailer all night so he won't crow until we are ready for it. And every time he crows, our neighbors' dogs start barking!

 

[CMV]

Ahhhhh, the fabulously elusive crow-less rooster. I need one of those.

 

[SC_Hugh]

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My Blue Cochin was hatched on May 5th, then officially first crowed on Oct 5th and I thought that was a long time...

Little Ricky crowing in the backyard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIsQzuvMIMI

Please post up a pic of your rooster,

--Hughster

Here he is: King Richard, the handsome, silent type. I think I may download the video of Little Ricky and play that for King Richard as a demo! Now THAT would be a funny video. Wonder what he would do?

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Good looking rooster! You sure you want to teach him to crow?

Let me know if Little Ricky's video does the trick

King Richard is a pretty fabulous name, maybe with a name like that crowing is beneath him?

A no-crow rooster sounds awesome (pun intended),

--Hugh

 

[rosco]

post a picture and let me know if he is for sale.

rosco

 

[rosco]

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oops, never mind. i thought the post was made by the rooster's owner. i wanted first dibbs on a non-crowing rooster.

rosco
ps. i love the surfing around santa cruz. we surfed "the Lane" and pleasure point last march. hope to do it again soon. when i lived in Norcal, i drove from SF down there for the surf. love that town!

 

[SC_Hugh]

I have been lucky enough to live here since 1984 when I moved from Los Angeles to study at UCSC (that makes me old!)

Weather is good, people can be a little weird (entertaining), surf is almost always great, my 3 kids were born and raised here and my daughter just finished college today from UCSC and graduated 2 quarters earlier than 4 years, that saves me some $$ for sure as tuition is going up next month by $1000 per quarter, ouch.

Back to chicken interest talk...

--Hugh