Crowing Rooster ..all night long

[BlindLemonChicken]

I would explore the predator option for sure. Even if your coop is secure a nearby rooster can trigger a cacophony in others. I heard the neighbors’ rooster alarming the other night probably half a mile away. That set off another rooster between them and us. Which set off my roosters. It was a 2 am ruckus that quieted down again until the usual time for pre-dawn crowing. It’s possible something distant is setting him off.

 

[DonyaQuick]

I seriously dont think we could plunge that coop intothat kind of darkness

Pitch black darkness shouldn't be necessary for birds to roost and be quiet. One of my coops sometimes gets very bright moonlight and there is no issue. I also have had house roosters for extended periods of time for various reasons and they always get a night light in their room so that they don't have a blind freak-out in a more confined space if something goes bump in the night. None of them have crowed all night just because it wasn't pitch black. If your lighting is really quite bright, like way more than you'd get with a good full moon on a clear night, then that could be disturbing the entire flock by preventing normal roosting behavior, and he might just be the only one actively complaining about it. However, if it's dim like moonlight or a night light in a bedroom, then I really doubt the light is the issue and would be looking for other disturbances, both inside and outside the coop. Just because he didn't sound off when he was younger doesn't mean there isn't some kind of routine disturbance setting him off now. While my roosters often sound off some time before I can see the dawn light (chicken vision being different to ours), if they get going at 2AM I know something is amiss out there, even if it's something they're technically safe from.

 

[Kung_pao]

I have often heard crowing when the moon is really bright or headlights go down the road. Even mocking birds will be singing in the moonlight when it’s bright.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I would think the hens are not laying due to the short days rather than because of the crowing. My guess is that as the days grow longer you will start to see more eggs.

 

[ABQ chicken keeper]

so we got a young Rooster this summer and he has grown into a fine looking boy and doing all the things a Rooster should do..BUT. he crows and crows all through the night. You can wake up at 0200 to go to the bathroom and you can hear him. Wife thinks it's our dusk to dawn light that's triggering him ( Our first Rooster in my avatar never did such foolishness), we should be starting to get some eggs but they are few and far inbetween so thinking maybe the ladies are stressed. He also puts the ladies to bed awfully ealy. We are in Nor Cen Mo it's 4:00 and they are all ready up on their roosts and it's cloudy day but even on sunny days he puts them up waaaay before dusk.

thoughts????

Have tried a zip cable tie as choke collar. We used one on our rooster "Woody" years ago, it was very effective! The tie was a quarter of an inch wide, it was tightened gradually over a couple of days. We snipped off the excess length so an inch stuck out of his neck feathers. The zip was tightened so there was just enough room for my index finger to fit next to Woody's neck.
He had no trouble eating pellet food or breeding. Sorry, I don't have any pic's of the process but it worked!

 

[FrostRanger]

Have tried a zip cable tie as choke collar. We used one on our rooster "Woody" years ago, it was very effective! The tie was a quarter of an inch wide, it was tightened gradually over a couple of days. We snipped off the excess length so an inch stuck out of his neck feathers. The zip was tightened so there was just enough room for my index finger to fit next to Woody's neck.
He had no trouble eating pellet food or breeding. Sorry, I don't have any pic's of the process but it worked!

Do not do that, ever. That is extremely dangerous, even moreso than no crow collars. If you must use a device of some kind, just use a no crow collar. It's still not ideal and requires constant vigilance but it's far more humane than a zip tie. If the rooster starts choking with a no crow collar you can get it off fairly quickly without tools, if a rooster chokes with a zip tie, you will need, scissors, a knife or snips to cut it off and even then since it's right up against the animal's neck, you're going to struggle to cut it off and by that time it might be too late, even if you do get it off the damage will likely be worse than with a no crow collar as you will inevitably create more tension as you're cutting. Again, regardless of your opinions of no crow collars, this is NOT an acceptable alternative under any circumstance

 

[ABQ chicken keeper]

Do not do that, ever. That is extremely dangerous, even moreso than no crow collars. If you must use a device of some kind, just use a no crow collar. It's still not ideal and requires constant vigilance but it's far more humane than a zip tie. If the rooster starts choking with a no crow collar you can get it off fairly quickly without tools, if a rooster chokes with a zip tie, you will need, scissors, a knife or snips to cut it off and even then since it's right up against the animal's neck, you're going to struggle to cut it off and by that time it might be too late, even if you do get it off the damage will likely be worse than with a no crow collar as you will inevitably create more tension as you're cutting. Again, regardless of your opinions of no crow collars, this is NOT an acceptable alternative under any circumstance

As I said it worked for us. The only way a chicken could choke is if it was to tight to begin with. It is really no different than putting a band on a chickens leg. Removing it was not an issue and I would not hesitate to use it again! Or the rooster goes to freezer camp.