Our DIY Rooster/Night box

This may be a dumb questions but did you include food and water in the box? I feel bad leaving him locked in a box with no access to food/water but if that's the norm I'll take your word for it

I have no idea what 'the norm' is hahaha

We didn't put anything in the box. We would leave him to go to bed with the girls so he had his fill of food and drink before roosting, then we would pick him up and put him in the box. There he would stay until about 7:30am and 8am on weekends.

He never went straight for food or water when we let him out, he would almost always run straight to the gate and wait to be let in with the girls, find one, mate her, crow then strut around for a while before he went for food or water, so we figured he was doing just fine without it.

Also, it was pitch black in there, so he would not be able to see it even if it was in there.

Any chance you've done decibel reading of how with and without the soundproof box? I'm interested to hear just how effective this is given that I need to house two rooster this way myself.

I don't know how much Ben's box takes down the noise, but even a normal, properly insulated coop will bring down the sound quite a lot. At least for us, it made the difference between waking up to the crowing and sleeping through it with an open window. Our coop is about 20 feet outside our bedroom, around a corner.

Hi,

I have not done a proper reading. I tried some test with my phone but it was not very accurate at all.

The box has worked well for us every time. Standing near the box you can hear him crow, can't hear him from inside the house, even with the back door open.

It was great to solve the early crowing issue, but it was the on going daily crowing that seemed to ever increase that was wearing a bit thin.

I have kept roo's in it for mini breeding programs and until I can sell them, but have not kept a mature roo longer than a few months, always due to daytime noise, not early morning noise.

old threa i know but im in need of something the same soonish? im looking for panels just wondered roughly how much i would need to makem one the same? m /squared if ya could?

I found most Bielefelder roosters are quiet.

haha. thats awesome!

Bens-Hens said:

We live in suburbia, and like many are not permitted to keep roosters. After a recent hatch, we have grown some anyway, and are now faced with the desire to keep two roosters in order to give us some fertile eggs for our next hatch.

I have spent a long time online, trying to find all the 'tricks' too keeping a rooster in places where they are not welcome. For every theory, there seem to be two people have experience disproving it. SO, I am working on a project at combines the popular methods, in hope that one or some work together.

I have up[dated our 'blog' type thread with this info, but I figured that there may be other interested in just this part of our adventure.

We wanted something that is dark, sound proof, has air flow, insulated, limits neck extension, yet has enough room for a male of a night time.

I got my expert design skills out, sat down with my crayons poked my tongue out and got cracking. (My wonderful skills also extend to being able to upload the image the right way up.....hold the applause lol)



EDIT: I should add some measurements. Each 'booth' will be about 2ft x 2ft x 2ft internally. I will make the roosts adjustable to work on the neck extension part.

Then gathered up the materials, off cuts and left overs from a work project. Mostly 35mm steel fridge panel, with an extra 50mm piece. More on that in a moment. Ply could be used, but I had this panel, so I am making it from cool room parts.


It's a little out of order, but here is a cross section of the roof panels. Total 100mm thick, a 50mm panel and a 35mm panel, secured inside a 100mm channel. This gives the air gap seen here. I have used the air gap method for two reasons. The best form of insulation is an air gap, secondly, I wanted a path for air flow.


I cut a 100mm hole in the top panel, right in the middle with a hole saw, this is to mount the rotary roof vent to. The aim is for the roof vent to pull air from outside, into the box then, through the air gap and out the vent. Air flow that will act as a sound muffler.


Rotary vent, used for trucks. I got this on sale for $23AU, brand new in the box.


Here is the roof section upside down. the angles mounted to it are to secure the sides to.


I picked up a few stainless steel vent grills. I don't have the right size hole saw for the vent, so I improvised. The internal holes are offset to the central rotary hole, so we get the insulation, but reduce the crow-ibells from within.


Some of the pretty vents secured, aimed back towards where Mr Roo's will be.


I got the two ends cut and the roof rake sorted, but no pics of that tonight. Hope to have the basic structure completed tomorrow night, then work on the doors, other four vents, middle divider, roosts plus finishing touches over the weekend.

Once that is done, I can do some tests with my remote thermometers and see what sort of temps differences we get, got to make sure it's safe for our boys!

More pics as the build continues.

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Awesome exactly what I had in mind, but your version is on steroids. Great job, I hope you get to post a project complete with a noise rating summary.
James, Bendigo