Dark Box for Roosters?

[pixie74943]

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Well....yeah. Sight is commonly and logically known as one of the "senses".......

forgive the offense, 'sense' is a very hazy term to use when you can just as easily say they can see light that the human eye cant pick up and actually explain what is being dealt with

 

[EweSheep]

I live in the city and one thing I can have roosters are during the months of late Oct to early or late March when they start laying fertile eggs. I have gotten NO complaints from neighbors resulted from that and having only one roo helps instead of two or three. when your neighbors got their windows closed, they can not hear very well unless they got theirs open during the winter. Collect some hatching eggs for yourself and maybe others if you wish to sell a few doz before you give the rooster a good home or stew pot.

Like the others, you can not control the crowing.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

My Cochins are less noisy than my other breeds. My Araucanas get up early to start crowing! I hear them in the tractors in the backyard at 5 am.

And I also have birds that crow all day but they really are not that loud or annoying to me.

And I have quite a few that will crow every time they see one of us coming up the driveway. I don't know what that is all about but when I am working down at the barn I know when one of the family is coming home because several roos start up.

 

[mandelyn]

If you know that keeping Roos could potentially get yourself into trouble, the worse thing you can do is go out and get several. I'd start with just one, and see how it goes. When starting breeding projects, since those produce even more fowl, it's best to wait until you have a lawful place to experiment to your hearts content.

With multiple roos, they'll compete with each other. If one hen starts cackling, one Roo will start, then his buddies will start. And so on and so forth. My neighbors have 3 roos, I can indentify each crow now.

(which is why I want to start back into chickens, I hear all the dang noise and don't reap any of the benefits)

The dark box is a great idea, and it does work. When I had my last chickens, my dad would hear them start at 4am and it would drive him crazy. So we boarded up the mesh sides of the coop (was a converted rabbit hutch) and they quit starting so early.

Instead, there was still some ventilation... which the kitchen light would hit directly from a window when my dad did get up, and that would set them off. This time though, after the bread winner was awake and rested.

I would test the waters of your neighborhood with one Roo, and a dark box. If no one says anything for 6-7 months, then get a 2nd Roo.

 

[TipsyDog]

I don't have roos but my neighbor does. He is about 1.5 miles down the road in the valley. His roos crow ALL DAY and I can hear them quite clearly.

The other morning I was up at 5 AM and it was dark. (Dawn doesn't come till about 6:10 here). Those Roos crowed non-stop in the darkness.

I think you really can't control a roo.

If you're not allowed one, I really think you may be pushing the envelope by getting one.

Good luck!