BornFelder
Chirping
Hi all,
Spoiler alert, not interested in people's opinions regarding the ethics of collars.
This post is hopefully to troubleshoot a sporadically effective collar, which if can't be resolved will result in said rooster being et!
We have opted for a DIY collar, 1" wide velcro job, started it loosish, gradually made it tighter, and thought we had it pretty good for a few weeks, then BAM! Full noise crowing at 4AM! Tightened the collar a bit more as there was a bit of slack, and now it seems to work on 2 out of every 3 crows, but the 3rd one is FULL noise.
Reluctant to tighten it again as it is where I feel it should be, and is working perfectly 66% of the time.
As for darkened coops stopping him crowing in the morning..... I went so far with this that now the hens have stopped perching as it is too dark inside the coop! Ergo todays job is installing a nighht light for them to go to bed with
TIA
Dan
Spoiler alert, not interested in people's opinions regarding the ethics of collars.
This post is hopefully to troubleshoot a sporadically effective collar, which if can't be resolved will result in said rooster being et!
We have opted for a DIY collar, 1" wide velcro job, started it loosish, gradually made it tighter, and thought we had it pretty good for a few weeks, then BAM! Full noise crowing at 4AM! Tightened the collar a bit more as there was a bit of slack, and now it seems to work on 2 out of every 3 crows, but the 3rd one is FULL noise.
Reluctant to tighten it again as it is where I feel it should be, and is working perfectly 66% of the time.
As for darkened coops stopping him crowing in the morning..... I went so far with this that now the hens have stopped perching as it is too dark inside the coop! Ergo todays job is installing a nighht light for them to go to bed with
TIA
Dan