crowing

I just bought a rooster to add to my flock of hens. I have 12 hens black australorp, araucana, and white leghorn. The rooster is an Orpington mix. I kept him apart from my flock for a few days, but now he’s integrated. He’s very nice and lets me just walk over and pick him up. He’s between 8...

Hi everyone, I have a bit of a weird question. I was wondering if Orpingtons take longer to mature than other breeds or not??? Like in terms of mating, crowing, etc. Because I have a 5 month old Lavender Orpington cockerel and he’s HUGE size wise but he still hasn’t done any of that stuff. In...

hi everyone! I have very small flock, consisting of one Rhode Island white, one Isa brown, one English bantam, and one Seabright. They are all females, as they have all laid an egg before. My two bigger hens aren’t laying right now, but the two bantams are laying consistently. However, my...

I have a sultan rooster who’s getting close to a year now. He is very lax and shows hardly any rooster tendencies. He doesn’t do anything to the girls and hasn’t crowed at all. I knew sultans were slow developing, but I never expected it to be this slow. I’m lucky he’s not a yeller, but also...

So let me tell you the reason I am asking this very question... our neighbors were complaining about are RIR Rooster and how it was interrupting them during unsociable hours (evening, early morning) because of it loudness of his crow and to be quite frankly it did annoy me a little, so sadly we...

I feel sort of guilty posting this when others have much more urgent problems, but I'll do it anyway. My eight month old silkie rooster, Peter, wheezes after he crows. I'm not sure, but I think this is new. I noticed it yesterday morning, because he crowed several times. He crows, then sharply...

OMG... 6 week old pure Australorp cockerel trying to crow already, maybe he can hear the rooster across the road. they are still in the brooder inside as we have a spare room right down the other end of the house, we cant hear them from the main part of the house. In the five years i've been...

Hi all! So I recently got a 5 month old Rhode Island Red mix rooster named Harvey from a local rescue. He’s an absolute sweetheart, very nice and not aggressive. But he crows, without fail, at the crack of dawn every morning. He’s fairly quiet the rest of the day though. We’ve been looking in...

Hi everyone- need advice about my cockerel ‘Poach’ Has anyone used a no crow collar? What’s your experiences with caponising? Or do any of you have any advice about how to stop a rooster crowing {loudly} or at least quietening him down? Can anyone share their experiences…

Hello friends! First post but a LOOOOONG time lurker! Sorry for the post length; TL;DR at the bottom. I know the title sounds like a clickbait article, but this has been a bumpy road for us! I have a small backyard flock in the suburbs of a major metropolitan city. We don’t have any laws about...

Hi I have a flock of 6 and recently found out my one silkie chicken is a rooster. The rest were able to be sexed as chicks and are all hens. However I have neighbors and I am new to the neighborhood and am doing my best to be a good neighbor but he crows so early in the morning. Do handle it I...

I came home to a woman trying to round up her dog yesterday. Her dog got loose and ran to my house and attacked my chickens... Killed one of my black chickens injured a couple others. One was my white silkie rooster... He seems to have gotten it worse next to the one that was killed... Ripped a...

We currently have 3 little roos that we were planning to re-home/sell or take to the auction when they're a bit bigger. The handsome cream boy is only 6wks old and just learning to crow but so far he keeps his beak closed and it's the most adorable muffled crow. I'm assuming he'll learn to open...

Like maybe putting cork up on the inside. My Serama roos start crowing at about 6-6:30am which means they will have to be brought into the house every night until I can rehome them.

Hi there! I have three little 7 week old d’Uccle gentlemen that I just adore, but also close neighbors that I’d like to remain friends with. Here are my questions...Are crow collars really that effective? How soon can I start using them? Would using them sooner, rather than later, help...

After a dog disaster (killed all but one hen) I bought a big fence along with 9 pullets...and got 8 hens (I hope) and one rooster. He is about 21 weeks now and is jumping on anyone who stands still long enough and doesn't get too angry. Including my one survivor hen, though she is willing to...

I just had to share this because it's too cute! "KnotHead" is 8 weeks old. He is from a Crested Cream Legbar Hen and Copper Maran Rooster. My daughter named him this because he has always had a knot on his head, right before his beak starts. All 3 guys are going to be joining their bigger flock...

I just found out that cockerels/roosters can die mating, what would cause that and how do you prevent it? I've also read that a rooster can kill a hen mating how?

Is there any cases of full grown roosters and hens where the rooster is not at the top of the pecking order (in other words being pecked on by the hens)?

i got two new baby chicks 2 weeks ago. they’re both barred rock. i got them from a breeder who did not check if they were hens. there is a possibility one could be a rooster. the one i’m worried about is named bee. she’s two weeks old. she’s extremely attached to me unlike her sister. i have...