O/T Chicken question

[souNdguy]

I rais chickens on my farm.. but I'm by no means a 'chicken farmer'... Here's my question..

Are there any breeds of 'hen' that will crow like a rooster? Here's why i ask.

Long story short.. I've removed all my roosters from my pens and taken them to my other farm property. ( neighbors! ).. I have banty, silkie, rhode isle red, sexlinks, cochins, cornish rock, a few fancies and game roosters and some 'mutts'. In any case.. I moved them a few weeks ago.. missed a couple that were young and dind't 'look' like roosters.. so every morning I listen while walking the dogs.. been all quiet for 3 weeks.. All the chickens i have are now mature adults, or still 'bitties'.. nothing inbetween.. anyway, have had no crowing for 3 weeks now... All of a sudden, this am I hear crowing while walking the dog.. I slip down there with the binocs ( they stop crowing when i walk / drive down there usually! ).. and low and behold.. I see what looks like a hen... crowing. i watched for 10 minutes.. and it was the only one crowing. Would rustle it feathers and flap it's wings like a rooster.. however.. it looks like all my other 'mixed banty' hens...

I figured i can't have it crowing so thru it in a box and on my way to work took it to my other property.. like I have done every time I found a stray rooster.. or one that had escaped and was wild on the property. Every time I added a rooster.. not much happened.. they walk in and take their place... ( all these roosters 'know' each other )... Anyway.. I add this 'rooster' this am.. and imediatly all the other roosters set on it like it was a hen.. it acted like a hen.. anyone that raises chickens know how the hen moves and acts when engaged with the maile.. etc.

So this thin acts like a rooster when around other hens... kinda.. but acts like a hen around other roosters... Is 'he' so low on the pecking order that they are showing dominance to him ( he is the youngest and just matured.. probably crowed his first time today! ).. or is this a wacked out hen that is now locke dup with an all male population that have been celebate for a few weeks!!!

what gives?

any hens crow?

soundguy

 

[sedanpilot]

[color=darkblue:1f6699217f]HA!... Sorry, don't have the slightest idea, but... You tell a good story, got me smiling...

DVD[/color:1f6699217f]

 

[Dunk]

hermaphrodite

 

[GB in MT.]

[b:4ac60baa9b][i:4ac60baa9b]

Maybe it moved to yer place as a funny bunnie from So Cal, San Fran. area!!!????? Well, could be!!!!???
LOL

Gary :shock: [/i:4ac60baa9b][/b:4ac60baa9b]

 

[rbel]

Found this on the net. I have road island reds, and have not seen a hen crow, (but I have a couple of roosters so who knows .
This morning I was woken up at 4.36am by a croaky, rusty, "cwaaaka-cwaka-waa" (as opposed to your textbook "cock-a-doodle-do"). My 70 year old aunt - born and raised in the country (though a city girl for the last 50 years) was here last weekend, when one of the black birds made a similar noise mid-afternoon. She said that a dominant chicken would make a noise like that - and she was very definite that all our birds are girls (she gave their wings their first haircut to stop them flying away, and generally spent a lot of time with them). Now, I have no reason to think my aunt is loosing her marbles (yet....*waves to Aunty Sylvia*...*big grin*....) but it has been half a century since Aunty Syl actually had a lot of hands on, and maybe she's gotten rusty? (hehehe - and I'm her favourite niece!!)

 

[Ed S.]

We have a leghorn hen which does a passable imitation of the rooster (an octave higher, tho :lol: ). She's pretty dominant in the pecking order, which lines up with rbel's post...

es

 

[old]

Simple answer is yes a hen can crow, doesn't happen often but I have seen it before. Of course it could also be like Dunk said and you have a double $ex chicken

 

[Anonymous-0]

My mother use to tell me if a hen crows there would be a death in the family before dark.I thought it would be kinda safe if I stayed in the house when I heard one and try to put it on some other family member..R.M. In AL.

 

[souNdguy]

Sounds like I got a crowing hen that is now in the 'general population'. over at the 'boys' prison!

soundguy

 

[Den N Ms]

The rhyme has at least three common variants.

A crooning cow, a crowing Hen and a whistling Maid boded never luck to a House. The two first are reckoned ominous, but the Reflection is on the third.
[1721 J. Kelly Scottish Proverbs 33]

A whistling woman and a crowing hen, Is neither fit for God nor men.
[1850 Notes & Queries 1st Ser. II. 164]

‘A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men,’ is a mild English saying.
[1891 J. L. Kipling Beast & Man ii.]

A whistling woman and a crowing hen will fear the old lad [the Devil] out of his den.
[1917 J. C. Bridge Cheshire Proverbs 28]

Royal teased her, Whistling girls and crowing hens Always come to some bad ends.
[1933 L. I. Wilder Farmer Boy xi.]

A whistling woman and a crowing hen, Will bring Old Harry out of his den.
[1979 G. Duff Country Wisdom (1983) 55]

I was the wrong sexx. Boys whistled. ‥As grandmothers used to say, A whistling girl and a crowing hen Both will come to a bad end.
[1995 B. Holland Endangered Pleasures 116]

 

[Hal (CT)]

Soundguy - You're not going crazy. One of my hens has recently started crowing in the morning. She only does it while she's still in the henhouse so I don't know which one is doing it. I remember reading about what causes this a while back but I can't remember where it was. If I find it I'll let you know.