What do your roosters sing/say when they crow?

[ChickiKat]

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That is funny. My other doodler, crows and then makes a sound like he is deflating. I wish I could type what it sounds like.

 

[gryeyes]

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That's IT, exactly! Deflating! That's the "inhale" versus "exhale" sound!

Big, ol' brassy crow (exhale) fading into the mumble part as his lungs deflate, and then he needs to take a big breath to crow again!

 

[Sunny Side Up]

The kids insist that our guinea hens say "butt-CRAAK! butt-CRAAK! butt-CRAAK!"

 

[TinyChickenLady]

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That's IT, exactly! Deflating! That's the "inhale" versus "exhale" sound!

Big, ol' brassy crow (exhale) fading into the mumble part as his lungs deflate, and then he needs to take a big breath to crow again!

My neightbors banty does that!! I think he's a D'uccle..... or is it a Mille? Gah! He's orange with black! And little! And sounds like he's deflating

He's a funny one to wake up to.

 

[ChickiKat]

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That's IT, exactly! Deflating! That's the "inhale" versus "exhale" sound!

Big, ol' brassy crow (exhale) fading into the mumble part as his lungs deflate, and then he needs to take a big breath to crow again!

My neightbors banty does that!! I think he's a D'uccle..... or is it a Mille? Gah! He's orange with black! And little! And sounds like he's deflating

He's a funny one to wake up to.

mine is an OEGB...

 

[spiritdance]

Well, the ones headed for freezer camp say "chick -en -noo-dle -soooouuuup!"

 

[TinyChickenLady]

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[Sunny Side Up]

Their crowing must have something to do with their respiration & their anatomy. I remember seeing a photo of a rather complicated many-lobed tube (esophagus? trachea?) that roosters have in their throat to enable them to crow. I just tried to look up more info and didn't find anything easily, please share if you have good info. It seems that roosters need to flap their wings several times before they crow in the middle of the night, I don't notice this behavior as much during the day. I wonder if they need to pump up their tubes with air before they can crow.

I don't mind the sound of most roosters' crowing, although once in a while there will be a bantam with an irritatingly shrill voice. We had a Sebright with a crow like a rusty wind-up toy, were so glad to see the end of him. There was also a handsome white Jersey Giant with a crow like Barry White, deep baritone and compelling, you could listen to him all day long.

 

[wbruder17]

"I just CAN'T keep ALL of you happy!"

Feisty has 16 hens, 5 of which are banties and the other are LF up to a 10 pound Brahma. He's currently the only roo of "lovin" age, but I have one of his sons growing up to help him out. I just hope his crow turns out as good as his daddy's or the dh will make him take the gas pipe.

Feisty is a little Mille Fleuur D' Uccle and he has the absolute cutest crow. It soounds liike the recording they use to put in the little stuffed toys. Its a perfect little Er er Er er Eeerrrrrrr! Then the deflating noiise as well. Iit seems to take him by suprise when it comes out, but he is a total showman. He will flap and crow. Fly up to a perch and crow. Run tto all four corners of the coop and let one rip, then go take a nap. Sometimes he crows in the nest boxes, pprobably saying the same thing I am.... "I'm doing ALL this work and you lazy ladies aren't giving me ANY EGGS!!"

Ps.... I think we need a little picture icon of a crowing rooster anybody know how to petition for this?

 

[stilldeb]

My Silky roo says, "My name is Haa-rrr-y" and my Sultans both say "I'm a Sul-tan", except one of them has a little air left at the end and has a 'sigh' after.