Pearl, our 2 yr old BBMFD hen just started crowing!?

[Godiva]

I have heard of this though I gather this is really unusual! She is the sweetest little thing and I just recently (a few weeks ago )separated her and two others from the main flock as I will be selling the others (moving). I heard some strange crowing the one day, I knew it wasn't Little Red as his crow is totally different. One of the three in the tractor is a really young pullet that I thought I had maybe messed up the sexing thing and that she was maybe a roo. But they are all laying as usual and then I caught her in the act the other day as I had her in broody jail and I saw her 'crowing'! How funny is that?! Do you think she will keep on doing this? Or is it just a temporary thing since they now don't have a roo with them? Is she just asserting her dominance? Is it some hormonal thing?

 

[OregonChickenGal]

One of my hens does that once in a while. It sounds alot different than a rooster, but it's still a crow. She cracks me up when she does it.

 

[sleepy]

she needs a roo or she will continue to crow theres lots of cases like this when the top hen starts to crow to fill the spot of the roo

 

[Mahonri]

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Yes.

I had to rehome a hen like that. Wish I'd have kept her until I got a roo.