Unless you plan on breeding, and keeping the rooster indoors, you should stay away from roos. If anything will push a neighbor over the edge it will be a roo crowing 24 hours a day, and they do. It is not just a sunrise/sunset thing, they do it when they feel like it.
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In that case see if they have Cornish bantams, my hens are not noisy, and their eggs are larger than my other bantams. Two eggs from a Cornish bantam hen would make a healthy breakfast for one person.
MPC has standered cornish. (i'm lucky, they just got them for 2010) are they loud...
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In that case see if they have Cornish bantams, my hens are not noisy, and their eggs are larger than my other bantams. Two eggs from a Cornish bantam hen would make a healthy breakfast for one person.
There really is no such thing as a quiet rooster, but when I had EEs they crowed less then the rest, and started crowing at a later age. But if you have your chickens outside whether roosters or hens sooner or later you will get busted. Some people keep basement chickens, but that would mean a...