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We have a lovely little bantam cochin cockerel named Snowy who just started crowing. I live in a town that allows chickens, but have older neighbors that are NOT very tolerant of anything that makes noise except their own leaf blowers and lawn mowers
. As much as I like Snowy, I don't want town council to vote against everyone keeping them because of the noise.
Friends of ours want to take him as one of their daughters wants pet chickens and he is a real friendly, lovely little roo for a child's first pet chicken. We have a few other bantam pullets set aside for them but they just moved into a new house (their closing was delayed by a few weeks) and they are not quite ready to take the birds yet.
Snowy is crowing louder & louder & earlier and earlier & I had to keep him quiet until he can be rehomed.
I put heavy blankets over the windows and the door so it stays darker in the coop, but up north the nights are cool and damp right now so it isn't going to make them too hot or anything. Plus the coop is very well vented so they aren't lacking fresh air. I go out around 9 and take everything down and let them out, and then he crows. Other neighbors start their lawnmowers around then, so I figure if anyone complains I can point that out. Fortunately, at this point, he only crows a dozen or so times in the morning only and doesn't bother the rest of the day. I have no idea how much longer he'll be on that schedule though!
I just hope we can keep him quiet in the mornings long enough to get him to his new home! He's too sweet to become lunch. (Now, the other little roo we have IS going to become soup, but he's a nasty little booger. He isn't crowing and is still too scrawny to make a meal out of quite yet.)
We have a lovely little bantam cochin cockerel named Snowy who just started crowing. I live in a town that allows chickens, but have older neighbors that are NOT very tolerant of anything that makes noise except their own leaf blowers and lawn mowers
Friends of ours want to take him as one of their daughters wants pet chickens and he is a real friendly, lovely little roo for a child's first pet chicken. We have a few other bantam pullets set aside for them but they just moved into a new house (their closing was delayed by a few weeks) and they are not quite ready to take the birds yet.
Snowy is crowing louder & louder & earlier and earlier & I had to keep him quiet until he can be rehomed.
I put heavy blankets over the windows and the door so it stays darker in the coop, but up north the nights are cool and damp right now so it isn't going to make them too hot or anything. Plus the coop is very well vented so they aren't lacking fresh air. I go out around 9 and take everything down and let them out, and then he crows. Other neighbors start their lawnmowers around then, so I figure if anyone complains I can point that out. Fortunately, at this point, he only crows a dozen or so times in the morning only and doesn't bother the rest of the day. I have no idea how much longer he'll be on that schedule though!
I just hope we can keep him quiet in the mornings long enough to get him to his new home! He's too sweet to become lunch. (Now, the other little roo we have IS going to become soup, but he's a nasty little booger. He isn't crowing and is still too scrawny to make a meal out of quite yet.)
