Can I have a ROO??

[m2wandc]

all I can find in our area (it's very vague) is that if you have ONE acre you can pretty much have whatever 'farm' creature you want until someone complains...so maybe something like that applies in your area...if you are in good standing with the neighbors you might want to approach them and give'm a heads up, so if there ever is a problem they come to YOU first

 

[m2wandc]

PS I have a silkie roo and he crows all day long (as all roos do) but he is decently quiet (we hear him in our house, but our neighbors rarely hear him unless they are passing by our house/his coop area. I think I'd just bring the neighbors eggs and as long as they are happy, and he's not too noisy who's going to complain?

 

[Suburban Sprouts]

Thanks for the optimism! I think I'll keep him as long as I can... I'll absolutely be giving eggs to the neighbors and I will give them a heads up about the rooster. I'll just tell them that I'd like to keep him but it he gets too bothersome to let me know and I'll rehome him.

Unfortunately, my chicken yard/coop is equally close to one of my neighbors as it is to MY house... She's an older lady who used to be a teacher. She doesn't mind my chickens, but she specifically made a comment to me "Wow, I don't hear them at all - they're so quiet!"

I wonder how sweet she'll be with CROWING...

 

[judas]

how a bout a rooster pimp ... so to speak maybe some one near with let ya use the rooster service for a few days

 

[booker81]

My roos (and coop) are 10 feet from our property line, which is fairly close to our neighbors house.

For some reason, they LOVE the roosters crowing. Every time I see them, they tell me. They're older folk, and I think it just brings memories back (they used to have chickens). They like to watch them do their chicken things as well, puts a smile on their face

I think forewarning your neighbors ahead of time is the best method - along with a few eggs at the same time

I'm finding that a lot of people think chickens are pretty neat once they get a chance to get up to them and see them (especially if you keep the coop clean and things don't smell like poo!)

Even with my little pests going off this morning at 5am when I got up (and turned the kitchen light on), they are 10 times quieter than dogs barking - and that's four LF going off (1 RIR, 3 SLW).

 

[Nemo]

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That's how we got our current rooster, from a couple who work out of a garage they turned into an office. She ordered a handful of hens, but one turned out to be a roo. With the coop and run just outside the office, they were bothered by his crowing.

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As do we. Our coop and run is a small garage that was converted to a dog kennel, and they we converted it to a coop. It's almost two-hundred feet from the house, and well insulated. If we listen close, and the windows are open, we can just barely hear him crow before we get out of bed in the morning. Once the chooks are let out into the run, we can easily hear him. Both of us work away from the house, so we only really hear him a couple times in the evening, and then on the weekends. We usually smile when we're out working in the yard or gardens and hear him crow. It's the only reason he hasn't been turned into soup or stew, yet... His claws really rip up the feathers on the hens' backs. We have saddles, and that helps, somewhat, but not completely. I was ready to ship him off to Ice Station Zebra, but my wife asked me not to.