Sound of Silence 6am - No More Crowing

[Phoenixxx]

Thanks for the video.  It's perfect for my situation.     Let us know how yours work.   How many inches long to you have it?    Thanks   

I cut 2 pieces of each side 5" long. I folded the backing back halfway lengthwise and overlapped the second pieces to turn 2 2" strips into one 3" strip. The fuzzy side doesn't stick to the glue well and I was gonna sew it, but instead I cut a couple pieces of denim off old jeans and stuck them over the whole sticky side of both pieces. Overall length with one end unvelcroed is about 9", so, using a 1" overlap it'll be adjustable up to a max circumference of about 8". It's going on a black australorp.

 

[Phoenixxx]

 

[Phoenixxx]

Best part is, the package of velcro is the same price as ONE "no crow rooster collar"! And there's enough to make 4 3" wide collars or 8 2" wide collars I bought mine at Canadian Tire so I imagine places like Walmart would also carry it.

 

[mrchicks]

That's the same velcro that we have been using. We're happy with the results.

 

[Phoenixxx]

That's the same velcro that we have been using.  We're happy with the results.

How snug do you have yours set? Is one finger-space good or would that be too tight?

 

[mrchicks]

One finger is more than enough, ours still has a bit of crow left with that much space. But we are not trying to completely silence him, just tone him down a bit.

 

[Phoenixxx]

K, so I put the collar on with room to poke my finger in. I wasn't home most of the day but my husband said he could still hear the crowing though it was quieter. Naturally, over the course of the day, most of the feathers have worked their way outside of the collar so it may need an adjustment. HOWEVER... in the 5 hours that I've been home, he hasn't crowed once! So it seems, at least in my case, that the collar is also acting as a deterrant to crowing, likely due to the discomfort of crowing with the collar on.

 

[mrchicks]

That's really good news! You will need to make adjustments here and there, I tend to go too lose then have to re-capture him to tighten it up. Mine went backwards until he ran into a fence the first time he crowed with it on. It was funny, not funny. But he quickly learned that crowing was not comfortable at all.

 

[Phoenixxx]

I should add that we recently got a dog and apparently everytime my rooster went on the deck railing today and crowed, the dog barked out the window to shut him up. (Dog senses my husband's hatred for the bird and he was home post-dental surgery today.) Also, prior to making the collar, whenever he went on a crowing spree, I'd grab the dog and go for a walk, purposely wherever the rooster was and that would shut him up for a good while. But for him not to crow between 5pm and bedtime? That's NEVER happened before!

 

[Phoenixxx]

That's really good news!  You will need to make adjustments here and there, I tend to go too lose then have to re-capture him to tighten it up.  Mine went backwards until he ran into a fence the first time he crowed with it on.  It was funny, not funny.  But he quickly learned that crowing was not comfortable at all.

I put it on last night and when I placed him back on his roost, he toppled over okay, it was actually kinda sad/pathetic, he had a good 4' tumble hitting the other roosts on the way down i felt so bad! And then it took him like 3 tries to get back up to the top roost with his ladies and they were all lookin at him like, "what da hell da matta wit u, freak?" I felt SO BAD!