I just did a search for why roosters DON'T crow and found myself here. I know this is an old thread but I'm gonna add my 2cents anyway.
I've got an 8 month old crossbeaked EE rooster who is also pretty much silent. He's very docile and sweet. He'll make sweet little "puck puck puck" noises at you and just follows you around everywhere hoping you're gonna put more fermented feed in his bowl from that glorious glass jar that comes from inside the place I take him to trim his beak with the dremel, aka, the house.
We had hatched out 5 chicks and were hoping for at least a couple of pullets. This guy, my daughter's baby, Peedles was always everyone's favorite though no matter what. And when it started to become apparent that he was probably never going to lay eggs we'd all sit and cuddle with him and beg him that if he wasn't a hen that was fine but please PLEASE don't crow. Because if he did we might have to get rid of him. Now when he first started "going through puberty" I guess he did crow a couple of times but only first thing in the morning if I was late opening the coop door or if I didn't get the fermented feed down in the bowl as quickly as he wanted. But for like three months now he hasn't made a peep at all. He does do his thing with the hens, at least his favorite two, so I know he knows he's a rooster.
I honestly don't know if he's quiet because he's content in his position as king of his flock and knows all of his ladies adore him and there's no questions and no reason to feel threatened. Or if all those talks about please being a quiet rooster if he had to be a rooster at all actually sunk in and he really understood us. I mean, I know some parrots actually ARE capable of not only understanding human speech and interactions but will also USE human words in communicating with their owners on an intelligent and not just trained performance level. But I wonder sometimes if other birds, chickens specifically DO actually understand us at least to some extent.
Anyway, it is nice to know that for whatever their reasons there are some roosters who do choose to not keep popping off every five seconds and annoying the neighbors. If mine wasn't crossbeaked I'd be hatching all these fertile eggs and working on a line of "crowless roosters", that's for sure!
I've got an 8 month old crossbeaked EE rooster who is also pretty much silent. He's very docile and sweet. He'll make sweet little "puck puck puck" noises at you and just follows you around everywhere hoping you're gonna put more fermented feed in his bowl from that glorious glass jar that comes from inside the place I take him to trim his beak with the dremel, aka, the house.
We had hatched out 5 chicks and were hoping for at least a couple of pullets. This guy, my daughter's baby, Peedles was always everyone's favorite though no matter what. And when it started to become apparent that he was probably never going to lay eggs we'd all sit and cuddle with him and beg him that if he wasn't a hen that was fine but please PLEASE don't crow. Because if he did we might have to get rid of him. Now when he first started "going through puberty" I guess he did crow a couple of times but only first thing in the morning if I was late opening the coop door or if I didn't get the fermented feed down in the bowl as quickly as he wanted. But for like three months now he hasn't made a peep at all. He does do his thing with the hens, at least his favorite two, so I know he knows he's a rooster.
I honestly don't know if he's quiet because he's content in his position as king of his flock and knows all of his ladies adore him and there's no questions and no reason to feel threatened. Or if all those talks about please being a quiet rooster if he had to be a rooster at all actually sunk in and he really understood us. I mean, I know some parrots actually ARE capable of not only understanding human speech and interactions but will also USE human words in communicating with their owners on an intelligent and not just trained performance level. But I wonder sometimes if other birds, chickens specifically DO actually understand us at least to some extent.
Anyway, it is nice to know that for whatever their reasons there are some roosters who do choose to not keep popping off every five seconds and annoying the neighbors. If mine wasn't crossbeaked I'd be hatching all these fertile eggs and working on a line of "crowless roosters", that's for sure!
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