Why should a hen kill a rooster when it learns to crow? What does the "hen crowing" portend?
Domestic poultry was the first to be bred in captivity, dating back at least 8,000 years to Southeast Asia.
Today, poultry is the largest and most abundant bird in the world, with 23.7 billion live birds in the world as of 2018, and the number continues to grow.
Unfortunately, they usually live on a farm with too much sunlight, constantly producing eggs and meat.
Obviously, because chicks are closely connected to our lives, they can occupy the largest position in the population.
However, it is precisely because of its close association with humans that we often find some abnormal behavior of chickens, for example, some chickens will make an inexplicable "oh oh oh" sound.
In our case, people call it "hen crowing", and the old people think it is very unlucky, and I had this experience when I was a child: one morning, an old hen in a relative's house suddenly learned the crow of a rooster.
The news soon spread throughout the village, and the women of the village were talking and saying bad things, and as a result, the unrepentant old hen was slaughtered the next day, and then slaughtered, and this seemed to be the fate of every hen who could crow.
I remember it vividly, and although the rooster imitated it well, it was not as loud as a normal rooster, but as if it was choking, and it was not elongated like a rooster, but simply "oh oh crow".
How do you call this chicken?
"Hen crowing" often gives people a bad sense of premonition, but in fact, this is not a strange phenomenon, after all, even hens can crow.
Chickens grow very quickly, usually after a few months to become fully developed, and then stop growing, and chickens without muscles can lay eggs, which is known as the "gold medal for avoiding death", while those without muscles are swallowed directly, resulting in a flock without a single chicken.
I'm sure you've all noticed that only chickens without roosters crow, and I remember the same last time, when only one rooster was slaughtered in our house.
The chicken is also a social creature, as long as it is a social creature, there will be a hierarchy, generally speaking, the leader is a huge rooster, followed by it.
The higher the rank, the higher the status, the more privileged it is, just like when eating, the leading chicken has the right to choose first, and in addition, it can go and eat other chickens.
Interestingly, it has been studied that the cries of each rooster are arranged according to rank, and generally the leading rooster crows first, and the others follow suit.
Although in a flock without roosters, the hierarchy is established. But if there is not a single rooster in a flock, then the hierarchy has to be rebuilt.
At this time, some hens will also imitate the "hen crowing", and they will also crow to determine their position in the group.
Every time a cry sounds, she will be like a leading rooster, declaring her supremacy and establishing her territory.
The chicken is getting bigger and bigger
The hen crows, which is a common phenomenon that when a chicken is turning into a rooster, it also crows when a rooster is present.
It is very common in a group of "male" chickens that they produce combs (but not significantly), and they rarely lay eggs, and their bodies resemble a pair of giant hammers, and their feathers are bright.
In fact, from the day they are born, they already secrete a large amount of androgens automatically, so they also have certain characteristics and behaviors of roosters.
Of course, this does not rule out that it is caused by the day after tomorrow!
Similar to humans, hens are born with two ovaries. The left ovary matures, secretes estrogen, regulates egg (or egg) production, and secretes it outside the fallopian tubes.
In contrast, the right ovary does not accompany the growth of the female, but in sleep, the right ovary is small and not fully developed relative to the left ovary.
Natural reversal occurs when a chick's left ovary is damaged or when it is unable to produce the necessary estrogen due to other factors.
Because the left ovary is the only place where estrogen is secreted, without this part, the amount of estrogen in the female animal decreases and testosterone (i.e., the male hormone) increases.
By this time, these hens will have some masculine traits, such as chirping!
However, these old hens have not really evolved into roosters, they are still physiologically old hens, and the androgen content in their bodies is not high compared to roosters, which cannot reach the standard of a thorough rooster.
However, it is interesting to note that when the left ovary of the chicken is dysfunctional and the right ovary is open, the female will begin to try to mate with other chickens.
Theoretically, technically, it is a transition from chicken to chicken, however, from the very beginning, a chicken is difficult, so the "hen crowing" that one often hears, belongs to one state: a female bird eager to establish her identity.
Do you have to kill the crowing chicken?
In fact, there is no basis for the so-called "rooster crows are unlucky", but it is very necessary to kill an old hen that crows.
First of all, this crowing hen rarely lays eggs, because she is strong, so she can eat more eggs.
The second reason is that these hens are very aggressive, and when there are no chickens, they will suppress other chickens, but as long as they are isolated for a while, they will return to normal.
