rooster collars??

[chisandchicks]

Hi - I am curious to know what ever happened with your experiment with the no crow collars? If you would please let me know I would be so appreciative!!! My email address is [email protected] or you can join my facebook pet page: Casa Grande everything pets.....
Thank you for your time!

 

[My Hens and Roo]

We were out on the porch a couple of weeks ago watching your video as we too have a roo (sultan) we cannot bare to give up.
When all of a sudden his mate, Mrs. Rooster jumped up and joined us.She enjoyed your video very much lol...She said she thinks your rooster is very handsome!
Watch
BTW, Mrs. Rooster had just had her bath and looks a bit shotty in her debut video

 

[bostonam]

how did the collars work out?

 

[lizgarf]

We were out on the porch a couple of weeks ago watching your video as we too have a roo (sultan) we cannot bare to give up.
When all of a sudden his mate, Mrs. Rooster jumped up and joined us.She enjoyed your video very much lol...She said she thinks your rooster is very handsome!
Watch
BTW, Mrs. Rooster had just had her bath and looks a bit shotty in her debut video

That is hilarious!!!

 

[StruttinRoo]

I constructed my own collar after several failed attempts. Used Velcro but split it in half and sewed in some soft fabric from an old pair of briefs I was throwing away in between the halves. It made the collar wider so it reaches further up my rooster's neck. It works much better and I haven't had any issues with him eating or mating or keeling over dead. He's crazy about crowing though. **** determined to be as loud as possible. HIs first few crows will be muffled, barely heard, but it's like he gathers in more air and tries harder and harder and makes this awful loud squawk at the beginning of the crow and the rest of it is muffled. I swear every animal I've ever owned has inherited my own stubbornness and hard head, making everything difficult. But he's worth the trouble to me, otherwise he'll have to be killed and that's a **** shame to put a pretty boy like him down for just doing what comes natural. Maybe one day I can move to the country and not worry with it anymore but right now this is the ticket I think. It's good enough for now. Not perfect, not a total failure either. I've noticed instead of crowing twenty times, he only goes for maybe ten at the most. That's just my experience with the whole collar thing so far.

 

[Tallie]

I'd love to get a rooster so I can breed my own chickens but I live in the subarbs. If I can talk my husband into it I might eventually have to give this collar a try.

 

[16 paws]

I am training my rooster not to crow, so far its not even a week & we already have good results.

Its been taking a lot of time & I've had to really persevere so far, mind.

My tactic is, every time he crows more than twice, I catch him, tap him on the beak and tell him "Bad Peter! Quiet!" & then remove him from his ladies. Either I bring him indoors or tie him to the "Naughty Rooster Post" for a bit. Sometimes he needs scolding 2 - 3 times until he finally gets the message, but that's happening less & less often. This is a year old Rooster & my first time training any sort of bird.

Originally, he was crowing a lot, all day, everyday. Now he only crows once or twice a day. In less than a week.

When he is being very quiet I say "Good Boy Peter, quiet, Good Boy!" In a pleased tone & give him lots of fuss as I would with our dogs. Sometimes he will get a treat,

When he does crow now, its only if I'm not nearby, he seems to think I can't hear him at a distance, but boy does he get a shock when I catch him & tell him off. He tries to avoid being caught, but I always make sure he can't get away with the behavior.

The way I see it is it may be natural for roosters to crow, but its also natural for dogs to bark / howl & if you can train a dog to be quiet, then you can train a rooster to be quiet. If I didn't have close on - the - other - side - of - the - fence - neighbors then I wouldn't care about his crowing, but sadly I live in a town.

I might state though that our rooster is a bit of an oddball, he sleeps in the dog bed with a Rottweiler & a staffy & he also searches out a warm lap to sit on if there is one available. We have never had any problems with aggression with him,

At night he sleeps under the stairs where its dark & cool in a pet carrier & doesn't crow at all of a morning. Otherwise, If I want waking up, I'll leave him out overnight & he'll crow on the other side of the bedroom door at 9:10AM of a morning (DH swears he has an alarm clock stuffed down his throat, or if he hasn't then he will have one down there soon!) & get me up. I'm trying to teach him that "Quiet" means QUIET. Once I've given that command, I don't take any messing about from him with noise.

He is quite funny when he gets caught & picked up, his head will stretch out over my shoulder & stare back at the hens as I carry him reluctantly back into the house.

DH described the look in his eyes as " Oh, no! She's got me again, Nooooooooo!"

Poor Peter,

if only he knew what a £2000 noise disturbance fine is.......

 

[Lobzi]

Im not having much success with bantam roos. Has anyone in this discussion used a collar on smaller roosters with success? Please share how you did it, size (width) of collar, placement of collar and any other helpful info. I am desperate to save my frizzle faverolle roo as I am considering showing him as an unusual bird. So far I have found no breeders of frizzle faverolles.

 

[kittybethaustin]

I have one on a Silkie. I bought one of the official ones but it was too tall on my rooster's neck. I used 2" velcro and cut it down to 1.5" tall. That let me put the collar lower on my rooster's neck and that seemed to make a big difference. You can still hear him from the front yard but he doesn't wake anyone up any more. He crows a lot less frequently and his sound level is much quieter than a fussy hen's noise level now. So it wouldn't work if you're not supposed to have roosters, but if the roosters are allowed but just can't be a noise nuisance, then this worked well for me.

 

[Sustained]

I would love to be able to have a roo. I got rid of mine before I knew about these collars. I see a lot of variance in widths and such. Obviously the size of each individual roo matters. So my question is, how much of the neck needs to be restricted? I wouldn't mind paying the money for the official one from mypetchicken if it meant I could have a roo. I see a lot more people having trouble with the official one than with homemade versions though. So while I wait to see what people have to say about my question, I will be researching.