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  1. Feathers of Eden

    Crow less Rooster? Have you heard of it?

    I think there is a viable market for selling crow less rooster specially if it is dialed after a few generations and breeds true.
  2. Feathers of Eden

    Crow less Rooster? Have you heard of it?

    True. Hens can feel something is wrong. They have that in them naturally and evolutionary. But imagine one mute rooster stranded with 5 hens in an island. Would hens avoid Rooster because he is mute and all together stop proliferation and all die from old age ? A coop with one crow less...
  3. Feathers of Eden

    Crow less Rooster? Have you heard of it?

    When the chickens were wild fowl of tropical forests the crowing may have been a vital tool for roosters to make a flock and mate with hens . In Today's practice, in a confined coop or space ,when there is no competitive rooster that can crow and steal your hen's heart and he is the only...
  4. Feathers of Eden

    Crow less Rooster? Have you heard of it?

    Valid question. I always refer to the study Russian did a few decades ago about choosing only the friendliest of a fox farm set up to reproduce. Basically they focused on one and only one friendly Gene and in a few generations they started to have foxes that started to look like dogs with...
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    Crow less Rooster? Have you heard of it?

    There might be some evolutionary reasons for crowers but if there is only one rooster in the flock, I am not sure the hen has some saying when a horney crow less roster approaches her.
  6. Feathers of Eden

    Crow less Rooster? Have you heard of it?

    During passing my mandatory 2 years military service in Iran in an active war zone , after 3 weeks they sent me back to base for a few days of recuperation and rest. The base was in reality a few Large Canvas tents and under ground tunnels but it was much better than living in tents and...
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    Crow less Rooster? Have you heard of it?

    Serama and some other bantams quiet crowing might be a size thing . I think as you said it is possible via selection to reach to crow less roosters but then it comes the question of is there a real market for it in real world? would you pick a crow less chick over a crower one? would you be able...
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    Crow less Rooster? Have you heard of it?

    It seems one of the big hurdles that stopes most chicken owners to own a rooster is the annoying crowing habit of a rooster which either annoys the owner or is loud enough to annoy one of the neighbors. I am not here t argue that crowing of rooster may have had some survival benefit for the...
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