It depends. Some roosters start crowing when only 2 months old while others start at about 5 months old.
Some breeds of chicken such as the Egyptian fayoumi have been know to crow at the tender age of 5 weeks. But most start practicing at 3 to 4 months.
My rooster TRIED to crow when he was a couple months old...lol it was a failed crow though XD
Roosters know how to crow instinctively. They don't have to learn it because it's inborn.
Between 3 and 4 months old
At 5-6 months.
The rooster could be ill, it could be the wrong season ( crowing is part of setting up territories and calling females into his group, if it is not breeding season his male hormones will drop and he will have no desire to crow) Or He could be a beta rooster - if there is more than one rooster on the property at least one will always be alpha doing most of the crowing, others down the pecking order may just stay quiet, accepting that they are not at the top of the pecking order.
No, actually it would take the same amount of time. A young male rooster will become ready when the time is right. It has nothing to do with interaction with other birds.
Not typically. Any breed of hen can make a crowing sound but it is often done by hens in a flock that has no rooster. The alpha hen in a flock of chickens without a rooster will often take over the "guard" duties of a rooster.
This is actually not such strange behavior. If there is no rooster among the flock the dominant hen will often take the position of guardian of the flock and exhibit much of the role of a rooster. In some cases where the rooster is timid and not up to the job, a dominant hen will take over.
No, Bantam roosters do not take care of eggs, his job is to fertilize those eggs, guard the chickens from predators, and crow.
He probably has a cold or something which is affecting his ability to crow as it I'd probably painful for him. When he's better I'm sure he'll be crowing all day and rule the roost once more! :D
Eww a crow! those things ate my cat. Alive! 3-6 weeks.
It takes them 5 to 6 days to hatch!!
If u play baseball then u must know what a crow is. take a crow hop and throw it aahard as u can!
he may for a second but theyre not dogs . roosters are gonna crow and that's that BUT you can make him quieter alittle longer in the morning. just keep it dark in his home longer. however im talking about instead of 4 am he will crow around 6am. they know when its morning. please know that roosters crow to call the ladies and to announce they are around.Squirting a RoosterIt might make him mean. a fact about roosters: a rooster can never be stoped in mid crow. he may quaver for a second but he has to get the rest outta there.No. You can't halt hundreds of thousands of years of natural behavior that way. The only way you can truly stop a rooster from crowing is to take him to a vet and have his voice box removed. Not all vets offer this service though.
a day
about a year