Quick roo question

[gottsegnet]

Sort of kind of thinking about trying to get a rooster but wondering just how loud they get and how far they can be heard at 4AM while shut in a coop.

We will be on 2 1/2 acres with a wooded area between us & neighbor and our house between them and the other neighbor.

Later in the day won't be a problem.

Sort of wondering about watching the cornish crosses we're hoping to raise for meat and maybe keeping a roo that seems quieter than the others?

Just how loud do they get? And would a few bales of hay lining the inside of the coop help?

 

[Judy]

Hay won't help when they are outside the coop.

Talk to your neighbors.

 

[Uppity Peon]

They are loud loud. But a rooster or 2 in my neighbor's yard never bothered me a bit.

But to my way of thinking, people who live in the country have to be tolerant of their neighbors livestock, as long as they are properly managed. They have no right to say you can't keep a flock of chickens. And if you share a few of the eggs maybe they will come to love your flock too.

 

[gottsegnet]

I don't think it would be a problem during the day. People out here are mostly retired farmers, anyway. I'm just worried about those morning crows. If he's locked in his coop, will he be waking people up?

 

[gritsar]

If you don't live within the city limits and there are no restrictions against having a roo, the neighbors would just have to get used to it.
I know some retired farmers that keep a roo around because that's the "alarm clock" that they woke up to when they were younger and they enjoy it still.
My closest neighbor is 1/4 mile away and she can hear my roo. Then again I can hear her bawling cows. I prefer the roo noise.

 

[Fowl Visions]

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I have four roosters and they crow all day and sometimes in the middle of night. It gets to the point you don't pay attention to them when you are sleeping.

 

[cat123]

my roos crow all day and all night....

 

[I'M On Island Time]

I heard this from the Chicken Whisperer and thought is was great advice...

If you have a roo in a suburban area, when your hens go in their house for the night and you close them up, take the roo and put him in your garage to muffle the sound so he won't wake anyone up in the middle of the night (except maybe you!) and garner complaints.

I do this in the summer when the windows are open and the roo is easily heard. In the winter, the coop is all closed up and you cannot hear him.

During the day, my roo crows all of the time. I have had one neighbor complain, but when I said you dog barks outside and during the middle of the night, which could also be considered a nuisance, that ended that.

 

[gottsegnet]

We're sort of in the country...in a small unincorporated town. We'll be on 2.68 acres and there is a wooded area between us and the closest neighbor and our house between us and the next neighbor. Behind us is just farmland as far as you can see.

The garage idea isn't a bad one. The people who used to live there had hunting dogs that barked and barked and barked.

Of course, our dogs may bark enough no one will notice the rooster. (They do well here, but there are just so many more things to bark at down there!) Maybe I'll talk to the neighbors after delivering a few batches of eggs.

Or borrow my friend's rooster.

 

[a2ms4chickens]

We have 7 roosters and they start their crowing around 4:00am.

I have a neighbor on each side and both say the roosters don't bother them. After a couple of weeks, they have tuned them out.

I do give them eggs every once in awhile as compensation for having to put up with the noise.

Good luck!!!