Diana1 Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 On two occasions now Pirate II has started crowing like a rooster while Annie is laying Has anyone experienced this? Luckily keeping the bedroom door of the eglu closed prevents her from crowing at daybreak. She did crow at daybreak - around 6.am the other morning when hubby didn't realise that the bedroom door needs to be shut as well now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clunie Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Hi Diana1 I can't actually help other than to say that when I was a kid I had a polish cross hen who would crow every morning when she was let out of her house and lay an egg later on. She was the only hen I had as her 'mother' died so it could only be her who laid. When I told an Aunt of mine she looked quite upset and said that she'd had hens like that on the farm but they always culled then when they crowed! I'm sure taht someone here will be able to help you. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana1 Posted March 7, 2012 Author Share Posted March 7, 2012 I quite like all chicken noises but don't want to disturb the neighbours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenW Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Hi Diana, Check out this video, the second noise you here is a hen, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qokGgTY70Nc&context=C3de75a0ADOEgsToPDskLl_DldNAL6Sj7jb8PtFULc Let me know if this is the sound. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizzieLloyd Posted March 8, 2012 Share Posted March 8, 2012 one of my ladies tries to crow. She rears up on her perch and postures just like a cockrel and opens her mouth as if crowing but thankfully no noise comes out (yet!) . I think it can happen where a more dominant female will 'assume the role' as it were where there is no cockrel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana1 Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 yep steve - thats the noise - I'll see if i can get mine on video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeloo Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 One of my hens started crowing three times in a row at sunrise when the other hen was broody. It wasn't as loud as a rooster, but she did her best and I could hear flapping wings as well like she was impersonating a male! Fortunately, it only lasted a few days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephenW Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 Thanks Diana, It sound really squawky Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavenders_Blue Posted March 17, 2012 Share Posted March 17, 2012 One of my hens started crowing three times in a row at sunrise when the other hen was broody. It wasn't as loud as a rooster, but she did her best and I could hear flapping wings as well like she was impersonating a male! Fortunately, it only lasted a few days! I have a hen who crows occasionally and she flaps her wings when she does it too! Stands right up on her tippy-toes as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana1 Posted March 17, 2012 Author Share Posted March 17, 2012 Well I've been observing Pirate II for a while and she is more remote than the others, the most shy and now I think she's doesn't know what she is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted March 18, 2012 Share Posted March 18, 2012 One of my ex-batts ( she was named Tinsel and re-named He/She) started to crow when she stopped laying eggs. She was so loud that we had to rehome her with my in-laws and their girls. She got worse after my in-laws got a cockerel. She attacked him and had to be homed with her own group of girls. After that she went on to live a long and happy life and has only recently died, nearly five years after being taken out of the battery cage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana1 Posted March 18, 2012 Author Share Posted March 18, 2012 hmm interesting. Not sure whether Pirate II is laying I only ever get three eggs from the four hens to date. No crowing today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LottyJ1 Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 Oh dear I heard my ex-battery sounding like she was trying to crow the other day because I was working from home - I have 3 ex-batts of which two don't lay anymore and she is one of those. I hope this doesn't happen too often! She is the top of the pecking order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millie Posted March 20, 2012 Share Posted March 20, 2012 When my boy crows, his sister stands next to him and does a doodle doo, doodle doo, she hasnt managed the cockle yet!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana1 Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 sweet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Janty Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 He/She used to stand at the top of my in-laws apple tree and do a full blown cock a doodle do....mainly to annoy Alfie, their cockerel. His tree in his patch wasn't as tall so she could get up higher than him and show off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diana1 Posted March 23, 2012 Author Share Posted March 23, 2012 That is so funny. Yesterday I was on a course and in the garden next door this fabulous cockerel crowed ALL DAY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
