What percentage of YOUR hens crow?

[tiki244]

I am glad to hear that chickiebabie. In this day and age then it should be appropriate for my hens to crow all they want. Thank goodness for womens lib!!!

 

[AHappychick]

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Im sorry but when I read that I had to laugh, was she a really supersticious woman? I am sorry you had to go through that growing up in the city I have no idea what it would be like to see my Grandmother snuff out a bird like that I imagine I would have cried for days as well....

 

[lichick28]

I had a RIR that crowed all day long. I had her since she was a chick. She was very tame, eating out of my hand & one day she turned on me and attacked me. I'm looking at the scar on my hand as I write this. She bite the vein on top of my hand & I almost passed out from the pain. After that I gave her away. I read in Hobbby Farms years later that a hen may assume the duties of a rooster in flocks without a rooster. She will stop laying and begin crowing.

 

[tiki244]

That is interesting lichick28. Well I do have roosters too, but some are pretty whimpy.

I noticed the hens that crow do seem to be a bit more aggressive than the others. Do you think I have something in my water? I better watch out. Sorry about that hen attacking you.

 

[lichick28]

It was hard to give her away too. She was my pet and they are not disposable but I couldnt keep her quite & didnt know what else to do. I even put insulation in the coop with double wood inside to keep her quite in the morning but she crowed all day long.

 

[modenacart]

Two out of six hens are very very noisy, but I wouldn't call it crowing. The rooster we had that did crow was much, much, much louder. I couldn't believe that much noise could come out of such a small bird. It was a white crested black polish rooster.

 

[lichick28]

My RIR crowed. I even went to a farm and questioned them about hormones in hens changing their sexuality if a rooster is not present, but they just looked at me like I was crazy. They never experienced it but that doesnt mean it cant happen!

 

[clayhill]

I've got 1 BR roo and 13 BR hens and when they were younger, about 4 mos. old, one hen crowed for a while. I think see was imitating the roo who, at that time, was still learning to crow properly. After a few weeks she stopped and hasn't crowed again - go figure!

 

[swampwander]

My OEG mix will crow on occasion. She prefers to fly to the top of the fence, arbor or pergola and makes a high pitched strangling noise. Scared the tar out of me the first time I heard it. Thought something was after my birds!!!

 

[tiki244]

I have had OEG crow too and bantam cochins. They usually sound different but this hen sounded just like a roo.