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I recently noticed my year old leg horn hen started crowing like a rooster but at first , I thought maybe a neighbor has a rooster but we live in a neighborhood that does not allow residents to have roosters and only limited to 5 chickens per household.
I have 4 chickens 3 rhode island reds and one white leg horn .

My leg horn is quite the tuff cookie of the 4 and will jump on any other chicken for no apparent reason.
I monitor them though out the day with a few cameras but when I noticed the white leg horn position her self and started crowing , I stood there mouth opened asking my self what just happened and could not stop thinking about a fellow I heard on social media talking about frogs turning “happy” from drinking tap water.
is it possible for a hen to do such thing ?
can tap water actually mess with hens hormones to that extent ?

since then I switched to filtered water and currently monitoring my leg horns behavior just incase , after all we do consume the eggs they lay : )

Just thought I share this experience incase someone knows what causes a hen to sound like a rooster.
 

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Sportsrican said:
I recently noticed my year old leg horn hen started crowing like a rooster but at first , I thought maybe a neighbor has a rooster but we live in a neighborhood that does not allow residents to have roosters and only limited to 5 chickens per household.
I have 4 chickens 3 rhode island reds and one white leg horn .

My leg horn is quite the tuff cookie of the 4 and will jump on any other chicken for no apparent reason.
I monitor them though out the day with a few cameras but when I noticed the white leg horn position her self and started crowing , I stood there mouth opened asking my self what just happened and could not stop thinking about a fellow I heard on social media talking about frogs turning “happy” from drinking tap water.
is it possible for a hen to do such thing ?
can tap water actually mess with hens hormones to that extent ?

since then I switched to filtered water and currently monitoring my leg horns behavior just incase , after all we do consume the eggs they lay : )

Just thought I share this experience incase someone knows what causes a hen to sound like a rooster.
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The tap water thing sounds silly, but maybe? Crowing hens is fairly normal though. If there is no rooster, sometimes hens will try to take their place. It’s annoying, but I don’t know if there is a way to stop it. Maybe somebody else does. There is also the possibility of sex reversal, but that’s rare
 


It's not the tap water, it's no rooster in the flock and she's trying to fill that role. I used to have a bantam pullet who crowed, had a few RSLs who grew spurs, and I currently have an Olive Egger who was mounting other hens up until I got rooster who stopped her.

Is she laying good? You might want some evidence proving she's a hen or you may have some troubles on your hands because your neighbors think you have a rooster. To most inexperienced people, her big comb makes her look like a rooster, despite it being a breed thing.
 
Squawkers said:
Is there a way to stop the crowing from a hen? Other than getting a rooster
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My bantam hen who was crowing crowed despite there being three roosters in her flock at the time. The only thing is she'd only crow when she was separated from the flock, which it appears to be a different senerio here. There are "no crow" collars, but those only muffle the crow, not stop it, and doesn't really take care of the problem.
 
Tap water will not make any animal change gender. SMH.
Hens crowing is not unusual, whether there's a male around or not.
Even more common for hens to have spurs.

@Sportsrican which of the pics you posted is your crowing leghorn?
 

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