Help! Live in neighborhood. Need to know about quieting or eliminating rooster crowing. I raise phesants and pigeons - no noise. But can't have rooster crowing in neighborhood.

The only thing I have found to quiet my rooster is a stewpot.

I had 5 different roosters on 5 different parts of my property. One rooster would hear another crow and they would start up a round-robin of crowing.

New year. New batch of chickens. One rooster. He starts crowing a good hour before sunrise. As if this isn't bad enough he crows whenever I hammer, drop a board, start a car, a cow moos, a truck goes by on the road....

I've had a vet friend suggest a surgical procedure but I'm too cheap for that.

Please post any alternate methods when you find them. He is much too handsome to wind up in a stew pot.

Wayne

Why get a rooster if you can't stand the crowing? It's just his natural instinct--he can't help it. Don't think I don't know what you're going thru tho...I have 6 adolecent roosters--when one crows it sets the rest off for a good twenty minutes of nonstop crowing (this happens at least 5 times a day, even sometimes @ night)

Same problem neighbours dont like the noise although I find it quite appealing in a rural sort of way. There is an operation called de-voicing and a local vet said he would do it for free as he thought it would be interesting,just the cost of anaesthetic. I didnt go ahead though. The way round it I have found is my little peking rooster he has all the benefits of a cock but a very quiet crow so I can breed without upsetting the neighbours too much.

I work around my roosters crowing by putting him in each night. After dusk when the chickens cuddle up on their box to go to sleep, I come in grab the rooster, put him in an animal carrier that I keep clean with straw on the bottem, add a bowl of water and put him in the shed. I then cover that with a towel. I also keep a fan running in the shed to help prevent over heating. I let my rooster out in the mornings after 10am or so. He sometimes crows a bit in the afternoons, and always at dusk, but I figure most people are awake by then and no one has complained yet. Keeping the rooster in the dark keeps them from crowing. You could do the same thing in a garage, or even a pantry or closet in the house.

Rhonda

i have the same prob as rhonda. my rooster is rather large, i was told that he was a ca white, later, i found out that ca white isn't even a real breed, its a legern/cornish cross. ne way, even when he was at the fair, he was the loudest 1 there, we put him in the shed every night, i'm the only 1 he has NEVER woken up around our nieghborhood. i could use some help or i'll have 2 get rid of him, and he's 1 of my fave birds i have out of 36. e-mail me!

Speaking of crowing, I'm still trying to find out which of the 10 chicks (well, they are 5 months old now) I got are roosters and which are hens. I gave away the 5 that I am positive were roosters (had well developed combs, and flappy things hanging on the sides of their faces), but of the 5 left, somebody (or 2 or 3) are crowing in the early morning. VERY early morning. None of these have side things and their top things are more the size of nasty scars than combs. Is it possible for hens to crow?? It's a clear "er, er-er, er-er", not just a squawk. 3 of the remaining ones hold their tails up in a real cocky way, could this indicate they are males?? Aaargh!!! Any advice would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Heidi in San Diego

Heidi, I have the same problem. I have one that has a comb and flappy things hanging on the sides of the face and I was certain that it was a rooster. Then yesterday I heard her squacking because a grown rooster was trying to mate with her, so what gives.

I also live in the city(Los Angeles). The chickens I have are Cochin Bantams and Japanese Bantams. They only crow one time and that is at sunrise. The way I control this is by locking the coop in the night when the chickens go in. The coop remains completely dark until about 7AM when I open it. The roosters do not crow and rarely when they do, it is muffled by the wood covering the coop. This is my way and it has worked for me...

Ebrahim

what can i use for a substitute for an incubator??

You might want to buy poly 'peepers'. This might help a bit.

Which breeds have the quietest crow? I live in a really really nice neighborhood in the subs of Boston. I'm the only one in the town with chickens!! and i don't wanna bother anyone! I do have about an acre of woods in my backyard.

MarTin
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they all crow and though batams are quiter their sound travels further. I have heard of an opperation that removes the "crower", but it suposedly cost alot. If you don't need a rooster then don't bother with getting one. Hope it helps.

YoYo

My friend had a rooster and he didn't like it crowing so he cut the tongue off and the rooster stopped the crowing. But I don't know if you want to do that to your rooster but it works.

I just acquired four Sex-link chicks (they are one week old yesterday- Sunday), and although the man at the feedstore told a friend of mine that they are all females, I'm not too sure, and I'll tell y'all why: My friend's grandmother, who has supposedly been keeping chickens for 30 years, declared the two Golden Sex-Links (with the other two being Black Sex-Links) to be cockerels instead of pullets!! I mean, I certainly can't beat 30 years in the chicken business, and what gets me is that she didn't tell us *why* she thought they were going to be roosters. I've read you can tell the Sex-links by the feather pattern/length when they're young, but is that totally dependable? Help!

Thanks from Raina and Memphis (my new "rooster," methinks).