ROOSTER CROWING at all sorts of times at night

[chick4chooks]

Hi there,

Hi have a bloody rooster that i hear crowing all sorts of hours of the night 11 am 12 2am 3am 4am every like two to three hours in the middle of the night.

I am on a lifestyle block so there are no lighting anywhere around and he still crows. Can anyone help me stop him from doing it as i have neighbours that are starting to get hacked off due to there children waking up in the all hours of the night,

Thanks in advance

 

[jak2002003]

Mine does that too... be in our house no one notices as we have all got used to it... but when we get guests they always complain!

The only realistic way to cut the noise down at night it to make his roost as high as possible to he has to duck down on it as the roof is touching his head.

When they crown they like to stretch up... if he cant do that because the perch is so close to the roof then it will put him off.

You could always put him in his own box at night.. but realistically most people are not going to want to put away the rooster and let him out every day.

 

[nab58]

Mine did that and drove us crazy. We ended up rehoming him. I have 5, 4 week old barnevelder chicks now and I think two are cockerels. I'm hoping to keep one if not both of them and hope they are quieter than my Easter Egger roo!

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Lights, traffic and any number of things will keep a cockbird awake causing him to crow. Dark coops help but the real deal is you need to figure out what is keeping him awake and try to resove it. If the problem can't be fixed then cock birds are not an option for you.

 

[TMosh]

I have a rooster that was very loud. I was not about to get rid of him or rehome him. He crowed all day long. I did some reading on the no crow collar. I was skeptical that it would even work and if it was harmful. I went ahead and bought it. I don't have mine as tight as some suggest, so he still crows (which I do like the sound of, just not as loud as he was). It doesn't seem to bother him and I am happy too. He can still warn my girls, just not the whole county at wee hours of the morning. It's an option.

 

[greggooo]

Same here. Beastie has been crowing off and on in the night. I have motion detecting flood lights, and sometime, it lines up with those going off. Other times, nothing seems to have happened. He has decided that 4:30-5 am is his time to sing a couple of arias. At this time of year, sunrise isn't until 7am, so its not the sun. I have security cameras, and can't see anything changing outside. REALLY hoping the he grows out of it, he's about 5.5 months old.

 

[Chicken-lovebirdchihuahua]

Same but I keep my windows closed they crow whenever

 

[greggooo]

Same but I keep my windows closed they crow whenever

I also have a camera in the coop, and have kept it on my computer at night to see how they're doing in this first winter cold snap. Otherwise, I wouldn't hear them at all. The coop is pretty insulated and my neighbors said that they never hear him, so that's good. Just wonder why the heck he decides "I need to yell right now!"

 

[Chicken-lovebirdchihuahua]

Oh cool I want one of those caneras warning if you don't know already roosters are crazy

 

[greggooo]

Oh cool I want one of those caneras warning if you don't know already roosters are crazy

Yeah, I'm a geek, and I love to see how they act when they are alone. The nightly fight for the best roosting spot, the way one of them sleeps with her head hanging way down, and the way the sometimes sleep standing up with their heads tucked under their wing so the look like a standing chicken ball.