Dead Rooster !

[featherhead007]

We're having the same issue with ours. He's a GORGEOUS boy that I hatched myself but at 7 months old, all he does is crow, not to mention he prefers one of our 5 hens to the others and her entire back is raw and missing feathers. We're in a neighborhood and I fear as spring approaches and people start to open their windows, we will have complaints. Saturday we are taking him to live at the farm down the street where he can make all the noise and have all the ladies his little heart desires.

But he's gonna miss you!

 

[xoxodanamarie]

But he's gonna miss you!

We'll miss him too but he needs to be able to live his best life

 

[featherhead007]

We'll miss him too View attachment 2046789but he needs to be able to live his best life

very true. He sure is one beautiful bird though!

 

[Rooapalooza]

Is it bad that I want to go out to the coop, and strangle my rooster ? Right now this would give me great pleasure.

He has been crowing every 12 to 15 seconds, since 3:00 am this morning. Yes I counted the seconds between crows !!!

It's now 6:15 am.

This is a daily ritual, and I'm getting really tired of it. At this point I have one nerve left, and he's pecking the crud out of it !!!

Two words come to mind ….. Bullet, and Brain …..

Anyone else have this dilemma ?

EDIT : I'm (probably) not gonna strangle, or shoot him, (today) but, all bets are off if this continues.

Someone down the street from me has a rooster who crows at night, which has set off my roosters, which set off the roosters down the road...

I empathize with you.

 

[Rooapalooza]

I am really glad to live in a neighborhood that allows roosters though! For all the times I want to murder mine, I'm still glad they are around to look after the ladies.

 

[featherhead007]

Someone down the street from me has a rooster who crows at night, which has set off my roosters, which set off the roosters down the road...

I empathize with you.

Marking their territories. that's what roos do.

 

[featherhead007]

My rooster "BEN" A big buff O, sounds like Elvis Presley, so the neighbors don't mind at all.

 

[kodster]

Try a 'no-crow' collar. They're on the market, or you can make your own. I took 1" Velcro, cut the length of the rooster's neck, just under his head, plus two finger lengths, under his feathers. Then wrapped it around his neck and secured it to itself. It's a humane way of stopping him from taking a full breath before he crows and he cannot get the full effect. Make sure you get his feathers out from under the Velcro, as this will make it ineffectual, it has to be up against his skin.

He'll sound funny for a while, and if on long enough, he'll learn that it's useless to crow anymore and not do it as frequently.

Some people were sad at this suggestion. What would you rather have, a rooster in the stew pot, or one that has been quieted down, still CAN crow, just not as loudly because he can't take in the full breath that it takes to crow, and can still protect his flock? This is very humane, doesn't hurt the rooster at all. It doesn't stop him completely from crowing, just not to the full effect when he's not appreciated to be crowing, which is from 3 am in the morning to whenever.

 

[kodster]

My rooster "BEN" A big buff O, sounds like Elvis Presley, so the neighbors don't mind at all.

I had a Blue Cochin roo, Big Blue, and his crow was so sonorous, I didn't mind it at all. Now compare him to the Pearl Leghorn I had as part of his flock, Squeaky, and you can find out why Squeaky didn't last as long as Big Blue did.

 

[featherhead007]

I had a Blue Cochin roo, Big Blue, and his crow was so sonorous, I didn't mind it at all. Now compare him to the Pearl Leghorn I had as part of his flock, Squeaky, and you can find out why Squeaky didn't last as long as Big Blue did.

So you know then, what I mean!