do cockerels make chicken noises too??

[lynda66]

i'm confused, do cocks make noises like girls do?? cos elvira/elvis was just in a flap over something and was running round the garden making chooky noises, like a proper chicken, i'm wondering (ok hoping) if maybe the strangled goose noises the other day were just erm i dunno getting her adult voice?? none of them have perfected it yet lol

[shirlthegirl43]

We used to have a chicken that laid eggs and crowed regularly.

[lynda66]

oh gawd ....... so he might be a she after all?? .... why is it so flipping hard to tell ........ someone needs to invent chooks with danglies

[HayleyB]

They have got danglies - under their beakies

[Eyren]

Hens often crow or otherwise make a fuss after they've laid an egg. They all make different noises, though - one of my pekin bantams makes honking noises like a tiny goose instead of clucking!

The difference should be obvious when they are a bit older. Cockerels have longer legs, bigger tail feathers, bigger combs, wattles under their beak - and then of course they behave differently

[HayleyB]

And of course cockerels don't lay eggs

[lynda66]

buttercup and coco are definitely boys, (well coco is lol, theres absolutely no doubt about him, he's ALL man buttercup is a bit shall we say less manly) elvira still looks like a girl, and they are too young for eggs yet lol ....... wish they'd just get normal lol, i NEED to know

[Nicos]

Before my girls became mums, the cockerels would call the gals over to eat a juicy worm or something....usually something to do with food.
Yup- they were similar ,but not the same.
Now my mums do lots of clucky sounds which they never used to!

Difficult isn't it???