Garage rooster?

[Duckduckgoosie]

Just wondering if anyone else is suckered in to taking in a rooster when you have close-in neighbors… Floppy was really not doing well in a friend’s flock. He’s been collared which works… kinda until it really doesn’t. He doesn’t get “used to it” and walks backwards, etc, and most recently has developed irritation on his skin there. And despite multiple adjustments I can again hear him at 5:30 so I’m sure my neighbors can, although I text them to check in and send eggs over the fence often. They are nice about it.

Anyway. I know collars are controversial. I find they work for a while kind of and then don’t.

Floppy is just around as a pet. He’s gentle. His comb is so big he only can see out of one eye. He’s a bit like the chicken in Moana, personality wise.

Tonight he’s in a dog crate in the garage as an experiment to see if keeping him there at night is doable. I don’t know how loud he’ll be to our own ears )attached garage) but we’ll see. Hoping he’s not too lonely, if it works I guess a different hen could go in there with him nightly?

Anyway. We’re attached. Hope it works. Anyone tuck their roo in every night?

 

[LizGio]

So cute!

 

[Duckduckgoosie]

So cute!

Thank you, I love roosters so much! Someday… land. But probably not. Pretending to be a chicken farmer is my hobby but not my partner’s dream **at all**.

So we’ll see how he likes having a rooster in the attached garage

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I had a garage rooster for exactly one night. He lives in Montana now and is very happy from what I hear

 

[3KillerBs]

When I had an in-town rooster I was fortunate.

One of my neighbors had grown up on a farm and liked hearing him. He'd bring his grandchildren over to see the chickens.

The other one, the closer one, figured that they didn't mind our rooster if we didn't mind their muscle car.

Careful site selection for the chicken coop helps. Ours was located on a direct line of sight between our heat pump and the neighbor's heat pump and right up against a thick row of bushes.

It also probably helped that we were on a corner lot with a fair amount of traffic and that one of the neighbors had a pool providing additional white noise from it's pump.

It's quite possible that your neighbors don't actually mind the crowing.

 

[Duckduckgoosie]

When I had an in-town rooster I was fortunate.

One of my neighbors had grown up on a farm and liked hearing him. He'd bring his grandchildren over to see the chickens.

The other one, the closer one, figured that they didn't mind our rooster if we didn't mind their muscle car.

Careful site selection for the chicken coop helps. Ours was located on a direct line of sight between our heat pump and the neighbor's heat pump and right up against a thick row of bushes.

It also probably helped that we were on a corner lot with a fair amount of traffic and that one of the neighbors had a pool providing additional white noise from it's pump.

It's quite possible that your neighbors don't actually mind the crowing.

Oh how I wish this was a corner lot or at the end of our street, which backs up into a nature preserve. We’re pretty close in to everyone. There is dog noise but that’s about it.

I think 5:30 am crows carry pretty well probably.

So far I can hear him from the garage but only if I’m downstairs. Locking the coop nightly and also bringing him in isn’t too much extra work for now. I think. Also it looks like he had developed a little sore place on his neck, either from the collar or the sore was why the collar was really bothering him? Garage sleeps till he heals up for sure.

He seemed so happy today, back in the run, taking a very satisfying dust bath with his friends. He’d taken to hiding in a back corner of the coop. It makes sense he was feeling bad.

 

[Ominojacu]

Just wondering if anyone else is suckered in to taking in a rooster when you have close-in neighbors… Floppy was really not doing well in a friend’s flock. He’s been collared which works… kinda until it really doesn’t. He doesn’t get “used to it” and walks backwards, etc, and most recently has developed irritation on his skin there. And despite multiple adjustments I can again hear him at 5:30 so I’m sure my neighbors can, although I text them to check in and send eggs over the fence often. They are nice about it.

Anyway. I know collars are controversial. I find they work for a while kind of and then don’t.

Floppy is just around as a pet. He’s gentle. His comb is so big he only can see out of one eye. He’s a bit like the chicken in Moana, personality wise.

Tonight he’s in a dog crate in the garage as an experiment to see if keeping him there at night is doable. I don’t know how loud he’ll be to our own ears )attached garage) but we’ll see. Hoping he’s not too lonely, if it works I guess a different hen could go in there with him nightly?

Anyway. We’re attached. Hope it works. Anyone tuck their roo in every night?

I don’t think the no crow collars are good for every rooster, some are really stubborn about trying to get them off. Mine luckily adjusted to them well. I have heard people putting white noise speakers around the coop and playing in the morning to cancel the sound of the Roos. You might want to look into that

 

[Duckduckgoosie]

Ah this thread. The original rooster is no longer with us but we have another roo and am currently getting up for coffee and to put Yellow in his crate in the garage until after sunup.

He is collared which was working well until it wasn’t (this is my experience with collars, frequent adjustments) and my husband doesn’t want it tightened. Neighbors have been very patient but I want to keep all happy so 5 am scoop up it is…

We love having a roo around, he adds so much to the yard.

This is Yellow. Yellie, as my son calls him. He’s very calm.

 

[gimmie birdies]

I had a night sleepy box for my rooster. (air holes so he could breathe and the size of a nest box maybe with a door.) So long as he cannot stretch his neck to crow. I would keep him in until 8 am. and put him to bed when my neighbor got home around 5. It should be dark though.

 

[Duckduckgoosie]

I had a night sleepy box for my rooster. (air holes so he could breathe and the size of a nest box maybe with a door.) So long as he cannot stretch his neck to crow. I would keep him in until 8 am. and put him to bed when my neighbor got home around 5. It should be dark though.

you put him in at 5 pm and took him out at 8?