The Muffin Man has started crowing!

[DobieLover]

As some of you already know, I've had to work out what to do when I ended up with two cockerels in my flock of 11.
I gave the boys time to mature a bit and see how things worked out. Long story short, I found a wonderful new home for the Delaware cockerel, Dexter. He has a flock of his own 6 hens now and his new owners love to hear him crow.
Because Dex was the alpha cockerel, my beta, Fabio, never made a peep... until the day after Dex went to his new home! Fabio is a salmon Faverolles so he has the nick name Muffin Man.
I wasn't expecting such pathetic attempts from the Muffin Man at his initial crowing as Dexter's first crows were so good. Not perfect, but pretty darn good. Poor Fabio sounds awful! But he is sure trying hard.
Anyone know typically how long before these young boys develop a more distinguished crow?

 

[Farmgirl1878]

Lol, the Muffin Man... I love it! My five-month old cockerel started crowing a couple of months ago and still wheezes at the end of each crow. He sounded pretty good from the start and only skipped or hurried one note (the “doodle”). He has plenty of other roosters across the crick valley that he can hear, so his song filled out within a few weeks. Don’t you love to listen to him try?

 

[naf_appaz]

They can have some pretty strange crows when they start out but in my experience they get their poop in a group in a few months of practice....Are you a Frank Zappa fan? One of my many favorite songs of his is "The muffin man" lol

 

[DobieLover]

Lol, the Muffin Man... I love it! My five-month old cockerel started crowing a couple of months ago and still wheezes at the end of each crow. He sounded pretty good from the start and only skipped or hurried one note (the “doodle”). He has plenty of other roosters across the crick valley that he can hear, so his song filled out within a few weeks. Don’t you love to listen to him try?

Yes! He makes me laugh.
And he is so much gentler with the girls that Dex was. Dex never "asked" he just jumped them. Fabio is a crazy courting fool. He is dancing around the most receptive girls all day long. No one is squatting for him and he just keeps trying to impress them. I think he is going to mature into a fine rooster.
Now, if only his voice would match! I did love hearing Dex crow and I do miss that.

 

[DobieLover]

They can have some pretty strange crows when they start out but in my experience they get their poop in a group in a few months of practice....Are you a Frank Zappa fan? One of my many favorite songs of his is "The muffin man" lol

Ha ha! No, I'm a P!nk fan! She's never sung about the Muffin Man but you should hear her rendition of Me and Bobby McGee. Amazing!

 

[Farmgirl1878]

Lol, Javier just jumped the girls. They had no idea what was going on as they were still several weeks from laying their first eggs! So now he’s relegated to “juvenile detention...” He has his bachelor pad and the girls get the big coop to share with the Littles. He’s dancing a lot now when the girls come to tease him through the fencing. And he coos, and calls them over when I throw scratch grains down for him, and now sounds the alarm every time a leaf falls. Hope we don’t have to have him isolated for a year like some folks have said.

 

[Maria's Chickens]

As some of you already know, I've had to work out what to do when I ended up with two cockerels in my flock of 11.
I gave the boys time to mature a bit and see how things worked out. Long story short, I found a wonderful new home for the Delaware cockerel, Dexter. He has a flock of his own 6 hens now and his new owners love to hear him crow.
Because Dex was the alpha cockerel, my beta, Fabio, never made a peep... until the day after Dex went to his new home! Fabio is a salmon Faverolles so he has the nick name Muffin Man.
I wasn't expecting such pathetic attempts from the Muffin Man at his initial crowing as Dexter's first crows were so good. Not perfect, but pretty darn good. Poor Fabio sounds awful! But he is sure trying hard.
Anyone know typically how long before these young boys develop a more distinguished crow?

Love that name, the Muffin Man. Give him time...