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By way of update, she went broody and then moulted, so she’s stopped crowing, for now! She’s just laid her first egg in a good few weeks though… so we’ll see whether the crowing resumes 😬 fingers crossed it doesn’t!

Thanks for this input! My problem is I work partly from home and partly from an office, so on those days when I’m not home, I’d have to either leave the collar on (which I think is quite a safety risk and would be very uncomfortable and unpleasant for poor Tilly) or off and then just have her...

Tell me about it 🙃😂 And they are waaaaay louder than any crowing hen could hope to be, especially if their roosts are disturbed at night! The thing is, while there isn’t much anyone can do about the wild Guineafowl, they can report me and my by-law breaching chickens 😬 I’d hope that any...

I I tried - isolated her in a dog crate for a week (it also stops the crowing) let the other girls work out a new hierarchy and re-introduced Tilly. If anything I think it made the crowing worse! Also, second in command hen is the one who recently died, and the rest are very passive. Nobody’s...

She is! And there are no “challengers” to her authority, as far as I can tell from observing them. Tilly is not particularly dominant or “rooster-ish” in her behaviour other than crowing - she doesn’t peck or attempt to mount the others girls, but she’s first in and out of the coop at night/in...

She’s definitely not a young cockerel - over a year old and has been laying 4-5 lovely large white eggs every week for about 6 months now! I wondered about a spontaneous sex change but she’s young, and hasn’t stopped laying, either 🤷🏻‍♀️ I definitely won’t be trying the “no-crow collar”...

I’ve got a hen (definitely a hen, she lays beautiful white eggs) who has crowed on and off, but the last few weeks it’s become daily, and multiple times a day. It’s a matter of time until someone complains and I have a major issue. We aren’t allowed roosters where I live and the noise control...