Sound of Silence 6am - No More Crowing

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They look tight but they are not. I guess its like putting a loose collar on a Pomeranian. I still haven't decided if im going to.use them.

 

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I gave the collar a try on a 1yr old lavender americuana. After 3 days and lots of adjusting he is being rehomed. I will try again on a younger roo, maybe if they don't know how to crow to start with it might work.Honestly though I think I'll stick to decrowed roos from now on. The one I have is almost silent.

 

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Yup, it was a constant struggle trying to keep the collars adjusted. Also, roosters lost weight with them. The rooster collar i ordered is also the biggest ripoff, that I have ever been ripped with. My Velcro collars work just as good, at fraction of the price. I don't know where they are factory made, specifically for this use, but the one I received looked like some shabbily cheap cut furniture pillow Velcro, what a high dollar joke. If there was a surgeon around my parts who would preform decrowing reasonable, I would opt in for that... is stead of choking my chickens. Call it like I see it. Mark

 

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The vet I got my (almost)silent roo from lives in Oklahoma but he ships post surgery animals.

 

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Complete junk..

 

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Thats what I am working with

 

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Insanity, I live in Florida, I have to many roosters to ship or travel with. Or I would go see Dr James. Glad too hear something is working. The collars homemade and not. Also had egg knits under them. I hate bugs. Mark

 

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This worked better, cheaper. But still a bad way to go.

 

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Thanks,
I just moved it up to high his neck we'll see if that works. This roo was basically a test subject but I have a SFH coming up I really want to keep. Bugs aren't a big problem up here thankfully so if I can make it work nits should be easy to handle.

 

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One thing for sure, rooster collar/Velcro, Whatever. I found myself handling a bunch of roosters everyday. Just for Adjusting helping food stuck in throat to go down, checking for lice/mites under collars, making sure the craw was full of food, and making sure they weren't slowly starving to death, all with collars on loosely.. mark