- May 9, 2009
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I know that most people here don't feel the way I do about the "awful" (to me!) noises a rooster makes, but I really need to vent!
I have a ~15 week old rooster who is driving me absolutely nutty. When I found out he was a rooster I was disappointed but given the area I live in (pretty sure it's legal for me to have a rooster, it's an agricultural area) I figured I would keep him unless he caused problems. None of the neighbors have complained or anything, but he is driving ME up the wall!
Every morning he started crowing around 5-5:30am and crows every 10 seconds for the next couple of hours. Maybe he keeps going after that, I don't know.. I leave for work. Today I came home around 10am and as soon as I got home he started crowing again. I left for another shift at work. I came back just not (around 2:30pm) and he started crowing AGAIN. Now it's 3:15 and he is STILL at it!
My yard, & thus my chicken coop, are pretty much directly outside my house. There is nowhere else for them to be since my fenced yard is outside my kitchen. More than how loud it is, just the constant repetitive noise all morning, and all day, is making me absolutely insane. I have NO IDEA why he just won't stop! I know that people here think it's great that rooster's crow and all that- and if he just did it for a little bit in the morning, fine!! But all morning, and then I have to hear it all day also!? He has 4 hens in there with him, a nice coop to hang out with, plenty or food & water, a yard to free-range in, they are protected... well, protected until the constant crowing of a rooster alerts some predators to the fact that there are chickens in the area!
They aren't friendly enough to me (frankly, I have no interest in chickens that sit in my lap to be petted so I didn't "socialize" them to stuff like that) for him to be keen on me grabbing him every night to put him anywhere else- even if I HAD somewhere to put him.
Getting rid of him is my absolute last resort-- but I think I am just about there. I have already made inquiries in the area to see if anyone would take him, but no one will. So basically if this doesn't stop or get better he's going to be DINNER for someone!
Has anyone else here been driven insane by their rooster? I would LIKE to keep him, but for that to happen I need to figure out how to make this better, if it is possible!
I have a ~15 week old rooster who is driving me absolutely nutty. When I found out he was a rooster I was disappointed but given the area I live in (pretty sure it's legal for me to have a rooster, it's an agricultural area) I figured I would keep him unless he caused problems. None of the neighbors have complained or anything, but he is driving ME up the wall!
Every morning he started crowing around 5-5:30am and crows every 10 seconds for the next couple of hours. Maybe he keeps going after that, I don't know.. I leave for work. Today I came home around 10am and as soon as I got home he started crowing again. I left for another shift at work. I came back just not (around 2:30pm) and he started crowing AGAIN. Now it's 3:15 and he is STILL at it!
My yard, & thus my chicken coop, are pretty much directly outside my house. There is nowhere else for them to be since my fenced yard is outside my kitchen. More than how loud it is, just the constant repetitive noise all morning, and all day, is making me absolutely insane. I have NO IDEA why he just won't stop! I know that people here think it's great that rooster's crow and all that- and if he just did it for a little bit in the morning, fine!! But all morning, and then I have to hear it all day also!? He has 4 hens in there with him, a nice coop to hang out with, plenty or food & water, a yard to free-range in, they are protected... well, protected until the constant crowing of a rooster alerts some predators to the fact that there are chickens in the area!
They aren't friendly enough to me (frankly, I have no interest in chickens that sit in my lap to be petted so I didn't "socialize" them to stuff like that) for him to be keen on me grabbing him every night to put him anywhere else- even if I HAD somewhere to put him.
Getting rid of him is my absolute last resort-- but I think I am just about there. I have already made inquiries in the area to see if anyone would take him, but no one will. So basically if this doesn't stop or get better he's going to be DINNER for someone!
Has anyone else here been driven insane by their rooster? I would LIKE to keep him, but for that to happen I need to figure out how to make this better, if it is possible!
