Can you use a dog shock collar to teach a rooster to stop crowing?

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Ummmm....... because a rooster can fertilize an egg. I am suprised you didn't know that.

Plus they're protectors and such . But at the same time, roosters crow.. Everyone knows (or at least should, they teach it before kids can even read) that, so if you didn't really want to hear it I'm not sure why you'd get one? The OP did ask a pretty good question really, I'm sure a lot of people have wondered it but were afraid to ask.

I think it's a great question for a problem that many have had. I must say that the level of knowledge on shock collars is appallingly low in this thread. They are not like electric fences. They aren't meant to cause pain when used properly and they won't "light up" the animal. I've used them extensively on dogs and I've tested them on myself with every level on several models. Electric fences give a much larger jolt, even when compared with a shock collar's highest setting. The lowest settings, I can barely feel one. It's certainly not pain, more of a tingle at worst. They have a great many features, including buzzing prior to shock, buzzing only, beeping to warn, and settings that most animals will not even pay any attention to they're so mild. Proper use of a shock collar does not include hurting an animal or having it yelp in pain or any other such nonsense that permeates these types of threads. They are meant to grab the animals attention. I can see how breaking the attention of a rooster might stop it from crowing.

The biggest problem you'll have to overcome is attaching it. Depending on the size of your rooster, I'm betting it could be attached to the body somehow - maybe with the strap going between the legs. It wouldn't have to be on tight, since feathers are not nearly as dense as fur on a dog. I'd pick a light-weight model and not worry about the range (you'd be right next to it). If it works, I'll bet you could patent it and make millions.

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I do not attemp dog training methods on chickens. That is putting dog characteristics onto the chicken. I do not "correct" my birds". They are doing nothing that needs correction. The problem with the shcok collar is the mistaken idea that the bird will connect the punishment with the behavior. That is something dogs are naturally able to do much easier than other animals because they have been bred for it. Other kinds of animals will get varying results with varying types of correction. With birds, they tend to panic or shut down when in pain. I think that the rooster might "shut down" during a shock collar session, but that in now way would indicate the kind of learning that the OP wants, just misinterpretation of the birds reaction to stress. I see a lot of people advocate dog training methods on birds, and while a small amount of it may be useful, most of it ignores that birds think and react socially diffently from dogs. Just my opinion.

Just wondering if there has been any actual legitimate experiments with useing shock training on chickens. Obviously no one on BYC knows but the OP might have better luck searching the web. Maybe someone has done it and documented the results.

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I thought about getting one for my husband.....

Oh, and my neighbors on one side recently complained about my rooster crowing (it gets light here at about 4:30 a.m.) so we have to catch him each nite and put him in the shed on the other side of the back yard. It is a pain which I may not live with forever, but I'm not ready to part with him!

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I thought about getting one for my husband.....

I think the OP has enough answers to choose from at this point.

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