I need help

[rooster buyer]

Can you Degobble a turkey cause i live in a neighborhood and you can decrow a roo so can you DE GOBBLE A TOM

 

[chooks4life]

Not likely to be feasible, sorry, but who knows...

There are some really inhumane practices people used to use to silence roosters and toms at a very young age, like a few days old, but if he's gobbling he's way past that and I wouldn't condone using those tactics anyway...

The surgery to decrow them is pretty expensive and birds often die under anesthetics, same as the inhumane methods, you have no guarantee that you'll get a live bird out of it. If you're determined though, theoretically the same principle would work as with decrowing a rooster, so you may be able to find a vet who does it or is willing to try it.

If you want him for breeding caponizing him is not an option, but really, not keeping a tom where you are is about your only real 'option'.

You'd need to move if you want to keep noisy animals, after all the main purpose of keeping a male animal is to breed, and chances are you'll get more noisy males out of the breedings, so it's a constant issue you will have to deal with. Personally living in rural areas is my choice, I'd rather not live any place where you're not allowed to have animals that make noise. Suburbia is freakishly quiet in some places, it's quite offputting and unnatural.

Best wishes.

 

[LovedMyAlydar]

Suburbia is freakishly quiet in some places, it's quite offputting and unnatural.

Isn't that the truth! Glad I live where I do, out in the country. All kinds of noise, neighbors roosters and turkeys, goats, horses, cows, donkeys, you name it.

Then there are the wild critters, bullfrogs, bobwhite quail, nighthawks, owls, etc.

Much nicer than sirens or as mentioned, total silence. Also, when we used to live in town, people are always cooped up inside with all their windows and blinds shut up. Yuck! Out here, people are always outside, houses are usually opened up - windows, doors, blinds, etc. At least there are sounds of life.

 

[chooks4life]

Agree, the absence of sounds of life is just plain unhealthy. I often struggle to sleep in suburbia when I visit relatives, just the deafening silence is so strange... Dogs barking is better than nothing. I found living right near traintracks more soothing than living in the middle of suburbia. At least there is more noise, regularly, and due to the train tracks the neighbors there were much more noise tolerant so they had animals that made noise... More natural. More wildlife there too, lol.

In some places it's like everyone is holding their breath and their animals are trained or forced to as well. Stifling and unnatural.