Rooster taking no-crow collar off?

[MageofMist]

I made a no-crow collar for Rooroo my silkie to wear to quieten his crows down, and well, he started doing the reverse walking thing but eventually got used to it... Or so I thought.

I kept finding him without his collar on, which was somewhere on the yard with no signs of being caught on anything, confused, I put it on again and again, sometimes with him somehow taking it off right after I turn my back, before eventually I caught him in the act... He grabs the velcro part, and pulls it until it detaches from the soft velcro part and then shakes the detached collar off! Even when the velcro part is on the back of the neck, he scratches at the collar to turn it around! Is this a thing others experienced or is Rooroo unusually smart?

I just have to keep an extra close eye on him and he is luckily very easy to put the collar back on, he just lets me pick him up as he is used to me feeding him treats when I hold him.

 

[Farmgirl47]

I haven't tried the no-crow collar on any of my roosters, but I have been desperately trying to keep an anti-mating apron on one of my bucks. He figured out that if he squeezes his fat self through our tiny automatic chicken coop door (it was already small but then to keep our LGD out of the coop we put a board over half of it so it's REALLY tiny now) he can scrape his "apron" off. It is a little frustrating, as there are only a few does I want him to breed. When one of those is cycling I will take off his apron for the day and let him court that particular goat. He disagrees though.

This picture doesn't show all of his apron, but you get the idea.