how can u stop a rooster from crowing

[IwannaBEaMERMAID]

that probably wat im gonna do

 

[AI4KK]

Has anyone tried putting a sound-deadening wall around their coop? I know that straw bales can get pretty expensive, but I was thinking of putting garbage or mattress bags full of sand inside pallets and using those as walls around my coop...at least on the sides facing the neighbors. Think that will help any?

 

[schellie69]

Why do you want to hatch eggs you will get more roosters then also, it might be better to just buy pullets from someone then to hatch eggs if you are trying to keep chickens under the radar, do you know what the local laws are about keeping chickens. If you can't have a rooster but want to hatch eggs there are a lot of eggs for sale on here plus you will get roosters then also. maybe you need to look at other options I have a bantam rooster and he does crow and I love the sound but I am allowed 15 chickens including rooster so no problem with my neighbors if you can't have chickens in your area you need to look into something else hens are actually very loud when they sing their egg song so I would talk to your neighbors and see if you can pay them off in eggs.

 

[12GAGirl]

Rooster crow just like the sun rises and sets! I think the box trick is cruel because would you enjoy living in a small box. And removing the vocal cords is insane! Would you remove your kids vocal cords for being too loud? I think maybe finding the guy a good home where he can be what God made him. Roosters are made to crow don't take that away from the little guy.

 

[CMV]

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The box is usually only used at night when the bird is asleep for the majority of the time. The box is also dark so the rooster would tend to be inactive/asleep while in the box. The vocal cord surgery is rarely used, rarely successful, very expensive and generally a last resort for someone who desperately wants to keep their prized roosters as pets in an area where roosters crowing are considered a noise nuisance. And finding a "good home" for a rooster is nearly impossible because there are hundreds of unwanted roosters born each year. Unfortunately, God made roosters to be a tasty meal for the most part.

Comparing chickens to kids? Now that's insane.

 

[leni]

I don't want to bother my neighbors with crowing, so I didn't get a rooster to begin with.

 

[feathersnuggles]

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Not everyone who ends up with a rooster, intended that. Even with chicks that are sold as pullets, the hatchery's chick-sexing accuracy is about 90%. Unless it's a sex-link, I think. Many people have the dilemma of what to do with their little pullet, who turned out to be a little cockerel. It's especially difficult in an urban setting where you are limited to 3 or 4 birds at the most. Personally, and this is just my experience, some of the breeds must be more difficult to sex than others because their accuracy rate seems to be lower. For example, in my area in a couple of months, I expect to see quite a few Craigslist ads for black australorp cockerel chicks, who had been sold as pullet chicks.

The feedstores don't hand out cautionary advice, in this regard. Most people purchasing these chicks think they really are getting JUST females.

 

[AI4KK]

I got my rooster, because like I told the city when we re fighting (successfully I might add) for the right to keep and bear chickens, "Sex ed tells us that in order to have a sustainable flock, you have to have a rooster". I figure that for a family of 4 to have chicken twice a week, it's just not worth buying 8 fertilized eggs a month...plus, I don't know of anywhere around here that sells them. If we weren't allowed to have roosters, I might look at that option harder, but Tallahassee allows an unlimited number of hens and 1 rooster per family when the new law comes into effect; currently there are no limits.

It's been covered elsewhere that surgery is not a good option. I'm just looking at insulating the general area of the coop with old carpeting, straw bales, sandbags, sand-filled plastic-lined pallets or whatever and having the rooster sleep in his box in the laundry room at night if he is still too loud.

 

[mattow]

Has anybody tried a cat collar on a rooster to stop the crow leaving it loose enough to allow him to eat and drink but tight enough to let spread his throat and crow (next option is the pot)

 

[Lisasfeathers]

Can you post a picture of the rooster box. Pleaseeeeeee....... I want to build one for my two roosters