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Well, I just want to say THIS and move on.
I wish that you and a few others would learn how to READ or at least learn the original purpose of this thread. It has NOTHING to do with a rooster that I have or will ever have. I am not going to waste my time explaining it again to you or...
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Yep, I'm afraid you're right on all of your points, SilkieChicken, especially about the government's priorities and the research's chances of being funded (or some kinds' even getting approval to be done). Too, "Perhaps the first experiment that can be asked is on behavior of why they...
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Hooligan, read your reply above and ask yourself if anything you say there isn't something that any ten-year-old doesn't know. None of it has anything to do with changing the status quo of what I was talking about. If you can't figure out why crowing is considered a fault by many...
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If that's not close-minded, what is? I don't believe you speak for everyone if a humane way of doing (IT?) could be devised, and the "medical experiments" wouldn't have to be limited to hearing.
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You're probably right in a sense, but unless the question is asked/studied, there will never be a solution to the noisy rooster dilemma, and many thousands of people will not be able to have them. It does no good to say, "It can't and shouldn't be done," especially when we don't even...
Has anyone ever had a rooster that was born deaf or became deaf as a chick for whatever reason or known of anyone else's having one? Did it learn to crow? If so, did it crow very much?
Has anyone ever had a rooster that later became deaf (accident, sickness, whatever) or known of anyone...