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

[gooseontheloose]

Our rooster is really loud and annoying. Can you use a dog shock collar to teach a rooster to stop crowing?

 

[McSpin]

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.

 

[EweSheep]

Oh jeez! If you can find one small enough I do not know if it would work.

How would you attach to it?

Better yet, rehome him and you would do a kinder way of doing a roo's innate behavior of territory. Hopefully it is not a long crower LOL!

 

[al6517]

I think it may be possible but I have my doughts, hope it works.

AL

 

[Kittymomma]

I doubt it. Probably fry his little chicken brain even on low and since their response to something painful or different is to make noise I don't think it will have the desired effect anyhow.

I've heard of people building heavily insulated rooster coops (like a 2x2x2 box +/- ) and putting them in there for the night, but I'm not sure how well that would work since you would still need to have some ventelation holes in it......

 

[NurseNettie]

Roosters crow- it's what they do. They call to their mates, protect territory, and warn for predators. I wouldn't use a shock device on any animal to prevent it from making sounds it naturally makes. If having a rooster is a problem, you're best to rehome it, rather than deny it's natural instincts. All roosters crow. And you dont' need a rooster if you just want hens to lay eggs to eat.

Sorry-- I'm pro-animal, and hate to think of harming one just for being itself

No insult intended, there are just better ways of dealing with a crowing rooster

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[Morgan7782]

I agree with the post above mine. That would be like shocking a hen to get her to quit laying eggs. Can't train the rooster out of being a rooster.. (or shouldn't) I would rehome if it is so difficult.

 

[sydney13]

i wouldn't try shocking him

ive heard that some people have tried using a squirt bottle on roosters when they crows and eventually they stop

maybe try that and rehome him if it doesn't work

 

[rancher hicks]

I don't know where you are from, but unless you intend to breed chickens why have the rooster at all? You don't need him for eggs.

"Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, rooster's gotta crow or what's the point? "

 

[fancbrd4me02]

A rooster is a chicken, not a dog. Dogs have been selected for thousands of years for trainability and responsiveness. You can't train chcikens like dogs, they are not the same kind of animal. It may be difficult or impossible for a chicken to connect the shock with the behavior... If that is the case you would have a terrified rooster being shocked and he wouldn't know why. Don't do it.