The No-Crow Rooster Collar is a safe and effective way to reduce both the frequency and the volume of your rooster's crows! When it comes to tameness, Faverolles roosters tend to be very nice, but again, there is no guarantee since they are individual creatures with individual personalities. For instance, Golden Retrievers have a reputation as a very friendly breed of dog, but there is no guarantee that any individual puppy you buy will be friendly.
Not only will it depend on the personality of the dog, but also with how the dog is raised and treated. The same goes for roosters. As far as breed reputation goes, stay away from Rhode Island Red roosters. They tend to be aggressive. If you want to choose breeds with a reputation for calm or friendly roosters, Faverolles are my favorite, and Barred Rocks are also very nice. Orpingtons and Cochins and Brahmas also have a reputation as nice, calm birds.
Caponizing is the removal of the male testes which will stop him from fertilizing the ladies and may calm him down, but it will not stop him crowing. This procedure can be done by a veterinarian. Some folks do castrate their own roosters without anesthesia , but needless to say this would be painful for the bird. Since roosters also crow to make certain demands of their caretakers, you might want to consider uncovering the reason your rooster is crowing, to begin with.
If this becomes consistent, you may want to take a midnight walk to the coop with your LGD to see what the fuss is about. Removing the predator may remedy the off-peak crowing. Additionally, if your rooster is hungry, thirsty, or stressed, try your best to meet his needs. Some roosters crow due to illness, so take the time to rule out other underlying problems if you have an overly vocal rooster. Bored roosters may also crow more often than a busy rooster. In winter, when we confine our free-range chickens, the barn becomes extremely noisy with rooster crows.
Giving treats and toys to your chickens can ward off the winter blues. Lastly, if you have a surplus amount of roosters, think about cutting back a bit. It will be much quieter if you have 1 or 2 roosters, as opposed to 10, competing for the hens in your flock. It is how they communicate with the flock, you and the surroundings.
We have said numerous times: good roosters are hard to find. Meanness in a rooster is much about the way you handle them — you have to be the boss. Friendship and trust may come later. So yes, roosters can be loud, but now you know why and you have a few ideas to work with on lessening the noise. Let us know in the comments section below if you have any other tips to stop roosters crowing so much!
He is outside free-ranging with the hens in the fenced-in backyard between AM — the evening before sundown. Then at night I bring him indoors in the house downstairs. I have a ten-person tent that I converted into a coop. Sometimes I bring a couple hens inside at night to be with him. I figure that by AM neighbors are up and about so I then let him outside in the backyard with his girls.
He is so sweet and friendly. Nice article. I tried the collar and my rooster went berserk. My neighbors said they liked hearing him crow. It was loud and frequent. I HATE the crowing of roosters. I moved here because I like quiet.
Now, a new neigjbor brings his noise with him. I am thinking, maybe a slingshot, or poison may be the answer. You moved to farm country and want them to please YOU by removing the farm animals?
But if you talk to your neighbour, maybe you can sort something out. Killing the rooster would only cause neighbourhood dissent because I know if anyone killed my rooster I would be having them charged. You can buy a No-crow collar it is not a shock collar very humane and cuts the sound of the rooster by a lot the cost about I live in Hawaii on the island of Kauai.
Think of it as a small town in the setting of Jurassic Park; this is where they filmed. There are more chickens than people, sparrows and pigeons combined.
There are many varieties of Bantam chickens all beautiful and unusual birds. The houses are 20 feet apart and packed in like most cities. I have a large mango tree in my backyard as well as an African tulip tree where many of the neighborhood roosters and hens roost. They crow throughout the night and all day long. Unfortunately my bedroom is on the second floor with a window facing the mango tree. When one rooster crows usually the one in my tree, of course several others from a couple of yards in each direction join the cacophony.
I also have six barking dogs bordering my property. I say this all tongue-in-cheek but I assure you there is no exaggeration in what I say. We live in a apartment complex. We have a noisy rooster nearby that disturbs many of us, but the single-family homes up the hill from us where he lives are zoned such that they can keep a rooster.
If no help, the next step will be a petition signed by my fellow tenants to appeal to his sense of community. We had a beautiful rooster and every night would fetch him from the coop and put him into a medium size cardboard box and cover him with a blanket so it would be very dark. We have a rooster now who gets brought into the house along with our hen and put in a large cage until mid-morning. He is outside my window now and has been crowing repeatedly.
We might try the collar. I love my rooster—i got two baby chicks in hopes of having two hens, but here he is. So on this one i have tried a 2 inch velcro collar—it is very difficult to fit but it did work.
You have to stretch his neck and fit it under as many feathers as possible, as low as u can go, and quite tightly too—it took many fittings until we got it right—a two person job!
For about a month he was only coughing when he tried to crow but still being happy, talking his chicken talk, eating, drinking and running around with the hens. Last night we tried to tighten the collar, unsuccessfully. I will try again today and then if it does not work i just might have to make him into soup, sigh… I have no garage that can be used that way nor resources to build a soundproof enclosure for him. Michigan has awesome farm laws in our constitution more for the farmer then the lazy complaing neibors buck up and pull your britches up and stand up for your constitutional right to farm.
We live in the city with a huge yard, and I wanted to get some chickens, I absolutely love them. I'm probably asking the impossible here - I seem to have memories of my mother's cockerel waking us all up by bellowing at the top of his voice at 4am every day in the summer - and that was in the middle of the countryside My friend has a cockerel and it crows all day.
The little ones won't have quite so much bass, but they often make up for it with the chook version of "small bloke syndrome"! I have heard that a cockerel in the flock stops the hens fighting, but mine don't fight without a boy to keep them in line, so do go into it with your eyes open. I borrowed a banty boy till my pure bred comes of age purely to keep my girls from wandering off into the sunset - he does his job but lets everyone know about it. All day long. I have a cockerel and 5 hens.
Lucky thats his name because we decided to keep him the cockerel has recently discovered his crow and is at it all day on and off. Fortunately we are not too close to our neighbours, but I feel sorry for the hens though, when they are in the cube and he crows early in the morning.
I have to say though, we have had him since he was a chick and he is much tamer than the hens we bought at point of lay. He flies onto our laps for a cuddle. They do make me laugh when they do that Lesley's cockerels have a 'my cojones are bigger than yours' type of crowing competition.
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