So, get this, y'all. DH spoke to both nearby neighbors this evening and told them we were going to ship the extra roos and my dominant Polish roo to auction this weekend, so things would be a bit quieter around here (he's back to "I don't want to process them," so I told him that they needed to go to Schuylerville or I'd do it alone
). Both of them wanted to know why, as they LIKE the roos. Apparently, because they're locked up in the coop until a reasonable hour and thus don't wake anybody up, nobody cares if they're there and they crow during the day. One of them (to whom DH brought some eggs - the guy is THRILLED!) said, "Your dominant boy has a good set of lungs on him, but I don't care - he's not doing it at 4 AM, and he can crow all he likes in the daytime. I can't even hear the other ones." The other one said that they hear them as background noise, but they don't bother them at all, and their kids LOVE them. Go figure.
The dude across the street has a couple of his own roos, and the people way the heck down in back have chickens as well and think ours are great, so I guess it's all good.
This is the primary reason why I've been stressing out like mad over them lately, because I was absolutely certain that they were driving everyone ELSE crazy. Apparently not, so they get yet another reprieve. I do want to hatch WCBP/Salmon Faverolle chicks in the spring, just to see what I get, so I'm actually glad that Leopold only drives me batty, the noisy, crazy-haired little creep. I'm attached to the goofy thing.