De-Crowing a roo?

[AHappychick]

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Wow, yeah! I wonder too. But it's just temporary though, right?

yes its just an idea I had I have no clue if it would work or if it is even possible, I wish someone would try it lol

 

[shay20]

If someone gets botox where would you get it from and where do you inject it.

 

[shay20]

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What book is this.. do you know the name of it?

 

[sillybirds]

I doubt that the botox would stop the rooster from crowing. It seems to me that it would just cause him to crow on one note only. Of course I'm just wildly guessing!

 

[19hhbelgian]

Around here we say it's easier to ask for forgiveness than to get authorization

I do live in the boonies, but they still like to control everything you do, even though we're zoned ag. As long as nobody minds I wouldn't really do anything but mind my business like everything is normal

 

[Emzyyy]

All my roosters crow but one. I have never heard Ruddie crow ever. I think its because I have so many roosters that he thinks "what the heck? Why do I need to crow too when they can do it for me?".

 

[hilareee]

i live in a town where i'm pretty sure having roosters within city limits is illegal, yet we have one in my yard, and another two yards over. i guess the neighbors luckily don't care much? i find the crowing something you get used to, as long as you have a positive attitude about it. i wasn't pleased at first when my landlady's easter-egger started making noise at 4 in the morning, but i sleep through it now, even 10 feet away, and i imagine the neighbors have just gotten used to it as well.

i have very tolerant neighbors, apparently

 

[Iluvmychickens]

I have 3 roosters. I live in the city limits and I am not even suppossed to have chickens....but all it took was one chicken and now I have 22. The Roo's all live in the house and roam freely. Al in diapers to boot. 3 times a day one by one we take then outside to visit the girls. Is it a pain in the ass? It sure is but we love our kids and I will not get rid of them. If they crow we immediately run outside & get them. They are so tame we call them by name & they come right away. They know the routine very well. We currently hatched 9 eggs & lo & behold we have an addtional 4 cockrels. We are going to have to re-home them as my husband refuses to move and he will not add on another room for the boys.

 

[SpottedCrow]

I've been through this mess before...here is what I was told by a vet...Decrow=dead bird...They're more likely to do some serious damage digging around in the roo-to-be's throat than doing any good. My sister had an ex show Collie who was debarked...she sounded like Brenda Vacarro...not very pretty.

Unless you have a neighbour that's like the lousy one that I had, just leave him alone. I wound up rehoming my little roo and one of my hens started crowing...Last summer, my remaining hen crowed too...and she's done it a couple of times in the past month when I wasn't up with the rest of the birds...

 

[Punk-Rock_Chicken]

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My dad had a hen change sexes. She not only started to crow but she grew a larger comb, spurs and more tail feathers. Her/his crowing was very funny sounding though. We had never heard of it happening before, but since then we have heard about it alot. It apparently happens alot... I posted on here about it a while back, and there where SO many people on here that it has happened to also.