Do they EVER shut up??

[Chickie'sMoma]

i have 3 bantam cockerels crowing loudly right now that seem to crow on the hour, every hour, or so my DH says since he's been home. the 4th one is still just learning to crow so i can handle that one right now (cute little bugger that he is!)

unfortunately, i live residential and have to keep these 3 from annoying the neighbors when they crow too early in the morning. i was keeping them in the house so it didn't bother anyone but now i've tried to move the one boy i want to keep for breeding out to my garage coop. (1 other is a pet i'm keeping inside with me, the other 2 i have tried to re-home but no takers yet!)

anyone know of good insulation or a better method to shield the coop from sound?

i used quilt batting on the inside walls and thick curtains over the plastic paneled areas that are the windows, but i could still hear him through the outside wall. not as loud as when he was in my coop at the back corner of the yard but still loud enough i think the neighbors may complain.

would putting him in a pet carrier and a blanket over it to dull the crowing be humane while muffling the noise in the early am? (he will start @ 4:30am with the time change now!)

 

[77horses]

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then what do you do with the eggs?

Vegetarians=no meat/fish, but we still eat dairy, etc.
Vegans= no meat/fish, no dairy/animal products

Vegans are the ones who don't eat meat OR any animal products. Vegetarians don't eat meat but also eat animal products, such as cheese, eggs, etc.
I'm a Vegetarian and my dad isn't, but he still doesn't eat our chickens because they are our pets. We eat the eggs though. And if one stops laying, oh well, we just keep them until they die naturally; she can't help not laying eggs from old age. After all a hen's service for us, why kill it because it stops laying and it can't help it? It's like you have a dog that you raise and you breed it and when it gets too old, do you eat it? No!

But anyway, Vegans and Vegetarians are different.

 

[The Zoo]

Yup - I eat the eggs but not the chickens!