How can I keep my roosters quiet?

[Kiki]

Be thankful you don't have my roosters. I wish crowing was all I had to listen to. Sometimes they start hollering when the hens start hollering when they're laying eggs. It can get seriously annoying.

I once had 3 roos and 4 hens that were raised together. No problems. 3 hens died. Still no problems. About a year later I got 20 hens for them. Still no problems. All of mine free range from dawn to dusk, so maybe that's why.

How did your 3 hens die?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

However, that is the responsibility we take on when we choose to keep livestock.
One should always have alternative housing options, no matter how humble they may be.
For quarantining new birds, injured, broodies, unexpected broody hens, etc..

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

How did your 3 hens die?

One was a coop mishap (my fault) that caused one hen to get trapped in the run on a cold windy night. The others, I don't know. They both got so sick I had to put them down. Haven't had any problems with my new hens. The ones that got sick I got from a local guy on Craigslist. When I called him back to get more, he didn't have that breed anymore, so they may have not been that good to start with.

 

[Kiki]

Oh ok I was just curious.

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Oh ok I was just curious.

It was pretty discouraging. My first chickens. 1 hen and 3 roosters, and I'm like, 'Oh no what am I going to do now?' Fortunately everything has worked out. I love my roosters.

 

[aart]

Also sounds overly harsh and insensitive to the op.

Was blunt, but honest.

 

[azygous]

Sometimes, our love for our animals means we need to do what hurts us in order to do what's best for them.

By hanging onto your multiple cockerels, you are depriving them from the opportunity for flocks of their own. You are inviting conflict that may not only tear up your hens, but may result in terrible injuries to the cockerels as they battle one another for opportunities to mate the hens.

When I found I had two extra cockerels out of a batch of chicks last summer, I put an ad on the local radio station. I gave them away free to good homes. Each three-month old cockerel went to a flock that had no rooster, so each boy ended up with a flock of their very own. One went to a farm with nineteen hens, and the other to a backyard flock with six hens.

Try to see that your cockerels will be much happier with flocks of their own.

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

Was blunt, but honest.

While it was both you can still get issues over it I was blunt and honest once and got a warning for it so ya be truthful but be sensitive as well just saying.

 

[Connor Bassani]

Okay, thank you everyone. I'm going to keep one for now, and if he stays "calm" I'll keep him but if he gets too out of hand I'll give him up. There's a farmers association near me that will take unwanted roosters and keep them safe and give them a nice home until someone wants one (for like shows or something like that I don't really know).

 

[Mysimplewyominglife]

Okay, thank you everyone. I'm going to keep one for now, and if he stays "calm" I'll keep him but if he gets too out of hand I'll give him up. There's a farmers association near me that will take unwanted roosters and keep them safe and give them a nice home until someone wants one (for like shows or something like that I don't really know).

Good to hear *thumbs up*