Has anyone trained a rooster to not crow?

[rosemarythyme]

If he's already crowing I'm guessing he's also way past the point of sterilizing (caponizing). You can do a search on the forums if you want, though I will say it's not a pretty procedure as the testicles are inside the bird's abdomen and past a certain point, they're simply too large to safely remove.

I'm really impressed you're willing to move to try and keep this bird, that's a lot of dedication. Best of luck!

 

[Clash]

I'm really impressed you're willing to move to try and keep this bird, that's a lot of dedication. Best of luck!

Well, in all honesty, moving has been in the back of my mind for some time. Samwise just helped me decide when to move and where to move to. Call it a sign, if you want.

 

[Mrluoas]

I’ve trained most of my roosters to not crow through use of the no crow collar and good ol fashioned negative reinforcement. But you kinda do have to be home quite often and requires you to be awake around the time they usually want to crow.

With the crow collar they’ll still try to crow but it’ll be somewhat muffled, as soon as you hear it you have to drop what your doing or get outve bed and go to the coop and stare his butt down…every time no matter what. When he’s real persistent then the spray bottle with water comes out. Eventually he’ll associate the crowing with calling the real head of the flocks attention and he won’t like to crow anymore. After he gets the picture you can slowly start taking the crow collar off for increasingly longer times until no longer needed. I live in urban so cal with neighbors 30 yards from my coop in all directions. I’ve had multiple roosters over past 2 years and haven’t gotten a single complaint.

You have to make the rooster understand that you’re alpha and not him. I’ve noticed even when I’ve had numerous roosters in same coop, only the biggest baddest one crowed, the others didn’t and didn’t even try to, they also would never fight because everyone knew their place. It’s a huge PITA but it’s all worth it on day 31 when you wake up and your incubator is chirping like crazy

ps..I too have noticed most of the noise from flocks come from something they need, not being provided I.e food,water, clean nesting area, saftey, etc