Hen Crowing

This is a short clip of my 3+ year old hen, Pearl, crowing. She has been a steady egg layer since I adopted her 3 years ago, but she stopped laying eggs abruptly about two weeks ago.

And two days ago she started crowing. What the hell?

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Pets & Animals

Tags:

• chicken
• crowing
• hen

[uipar]

i no a lot about chickens and just to say that was a cockerel

[hipchickdigs]

A cockerel that has been laying eggs for the last four years? Nope, sorry she's a hen.

[barndiggler]

Well, this could be promising. My 3 mo. old silkies are crowing JUST like that.

[hipchickdigs]

I hate to break this to you, but your young chicks may actually be roosters :( It was odd when Pearl was doing it because she is over three years old and lays eggs, but with young 3 mo-6 mo chickens it's usually a sign they are males.

[PredatorHuntress666]

No - she is most likely trying to take on the dominant role of "head Roo". Do you have a rooster in with them? If not, the head hen will take over his responsibilities.

[meech923]

When she tried tried the first time she blew the other hen away

[eddy1210]

This is rare but true. Years ago I had a white Araucana hen that used to crow like that. She laid beautiful blue colored eggs, she was the top of the pecking order in that pen.

[MuddyClogs]

In this case Pearl still lays eggs, even though she is pretty old now. She just lets out the occasional crow - maybe once every six months or so. Silly girl.

[DaltonicStar]

Ive heard of hens that after a while stop laying eggs and turn into roosters! its like a 1 in a million probability thing. I had a hen that used to ...mate with other hens O_o

[Battledroidlover]

Sometimes you can get sex change chickens..... no seriously you can,

[wherestherub]

That's what I'm going through with one of my hens. She still lays eggs but she's started crowing and mounting my younger pullets. At least they're doing the egg squat for her, that's a good sign that they'll be laying soon. Silly chickens!

[warriors9601]

@barndiggler

did they trun out to be males??

[oxman0313]

some hens will take on the orles of the rooster. When they are older they will stop laying. She was past her prime. There are some breeds that are known for hens crowing. Being in the city I have to stay away from these breeds. It is funny though you can tell she isnt good at it.

[tonyzeuscody]

5 bucks on thats a rooster or that hen has some mager problums. lol

[DuctTapeWalletz]

@hipchickdigs haha thats funny