How Do You Stop a Hen From Crowing?

[blackwpk]

Some hens will crow, usually if there is not a rooster in the flock. It's something with hormones I think? @aart knows much more about it than I do I think. (Sorry if I tagged the wrong person)

Gracie does it first thing when they get up in the morning then again about mid-morning. I have no idea why. I shush her as fast as I can cause I don’t want any issues with the neighbors. We will have to wait and see what happens.

 

[aart]

Anything I can do differently???

There's really only one way to stop a bird from crowing.
Most don't want to know.

Spoiler

Remove it's Head

 

[blackwpk]

There's really only one way to stop a bird from crowing.
Most don't want to know.

Spoiler

Remove it's Head

How rude.

 

[I have 3 chickens]

I have a hen that does this almost every day at about 5 in the morning she is 6 and seams to have stopped laying, witch may be because she is old but I also have a 8 year old hen who lays up to twice a day.

 

[blackwpk]

I have a hen that does this almost every day at about 5 in the morning she is 6 and seams to have stopped laying, witch may be because she is old but I also have a 8 year old hen who lays up to twice a day.

I have never known them to lay twice a day, interesting. I also didn’t know hens would crow so that’s how much I know! LOL! This girl of mine lays every to every other day, big brown eggs, along with her sister.

 

[aart]

How rude.

Sorry...harsh but true.

 

[TheChickenGirl0816]

Welsummer hens and roosters have distinctly different feathering. I am expert enough to tell the difference.

I have an Americauna I've had for 3 years that just started crowing and she's definitely a hen, I've eaten her eggs!

 

[TheChickenGirl0816]

hens do not crow, you can say yes its a she, but if SHE is crowing then she is a he LOL maybe you better post a pic of her/he so the experts here can tell you what it is.

Hens can, in fact, crow. I have one americana who was regularly laying up until the lat season and started crowing last fall. She is five years old

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Holy zombie thread, Batman