SCORING the crowing of laughing chickens is no less difficult than scoring a humans’ singing contest. The jury needs to consider six things: Initial sounds, cluck and intonation, variation and rhythm, type of sound (strong, fast beat or slow), melody and diligence in crowing. “Laughing chickens have five different classes of sounds, namely gaga, garete, makkau, mapparaka and dodo kinds,” said Amir, a chicken farmer from Kanie Village, Sidra