The 8th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!!!!

[ShrekDawg]

Roosters mostly crow during day time hours which allows for more noise. They do not go over the decibel limit for noise usually. Dogs will often go over the noise limit at night when the decibel limit is lower.

I had to get rid of roosters that were in my garage. It was not a decibel issue. The ordinance says no roosters on the premises. It does not say anything about noise.

Yeah, dogs can be annoying

But wow really? That stinks

I was just thinking though if you tried to get heritage breeds approved that someone would come up with a reason for no roosters

 

[ShrekDawg]

IMO before people push for rooster they need to push for dog ordinances. In my town, I live in the country. The dogs are horrible especially the little rat dogs and labs here.

I agree and wow that sounds horrible

 

[Karen523]

Feed them a flock raiser and give them free choice oyster shell calcium.

Also something like calf manna.

All is not lost though. Fertility goes up in the spring so the next hatch may be much better

Thank you for the suggestions. I will look for those things at the feed store. I haven't candled my HAL eggs yet. I don't usually candle until day 10. My incubator is in lockdown right now so it will be a few days before I will have the chance to candle. Hopefully the eggs will be fertile

 

[ShrekDawg]

My neighbors have two dogs that they let out at 10 pm every night and they make the most awful baying sound. I wouldn't care if was 7pm, but my kids are in bed at that time and I think it's really rude. These two dogs also stand in the back corner of their yard and bark at me when I'm working out in my own yard. Hopefully, as we landscape this spring we can put up some bushes to block them out. Ugh. I'd rather every single one of my neighbors had a loud rooster than listening to those stupid dogs!

Ashamed to admit we may have an annoying dog haha

But I always go get him as soon as he starts barking no matter the time of day. My dad lets him bark and thinks it's fine to bark some :/ he goes and gets him but he's not in a hurry.

But anyway, I get like really paranoid we're going to bother the neighbors and go get him right away. Which is kind of a lot causs he tends to bark at people walking by even though the yard is huge and they're really far away :/

But I've bene trying to train him out of it too

But the main reason I was saying he might be one of the annoying ones is he barks at the neighbors working outside too. But they're not like immediate neighbors, we can see the houses but we're back in the woods so there's a buffer of woods but yeah.

But he's half Great Pyrenees so he's really protective plus we didn't socialize him properly or really at all so I think he's just a nervous/anxious dog and overcompensates by barking at everything.

I do want to work on it though because it's annoying and probably not healthy for him either.

But like I said, I do go outside the second he barks and shut him up.

But he does go out for the last time at like 9 or 10 usually. But sometimes my dad forgets and will let him outat like 11 or 12, which he really should NOT go out that late, and lets him bark sometimes :/

But then my dad usually gets yelled at for that lol

We keep telling him he needs a schedule.

But most nights 9 or 10 is the last time and then my dad goes to bed, with the dog lol

But thankfully we don't really have amy neighbors with little kids anymore, they're all older.

But reading your post made me think more, I never really thought specifically about kids being in bed, and even the older kids or adults need to get up for school or work. I mean, I thought about the neighbors all the time, and that's why I always go to get him immediately, but I never thought about specific stuff like that.

I'm going to start pushing harder for him to go out at the same time every night and no later, if he doesn't go out then then he can just wait.

But usually he doesn't bark so it's not a problem but sometimes he does.

But I do want to say that they might not want to let them out earlier because then they might have to get up in the middle of the night or go in the house. Not that it's right to let them bay or bark at you but for instance, my dad doesn't go to bed until like 10 or 11, so if he let him out at 7, that's a long time to hold it. As it is, he gets up at 5am to go out so if he went out earlier, he'd have to go out in the middle of the night. But our dog is also free fed and eats after he comes in, no matter what time, so he might have to go to the bathroom more. I've actually been thinking of letting him out a little earlier and the taking his bowl away at night cause my dad doesn't like having to get up so early, especially if he doesn't go to bed until 11 or 12. Cause when Gator comes in at 10 or whatever and eats, that is kinda dumb aha my thinking was if the bowl got picked up, he'd be able to hold it longer maybe idk

Sorry now I'm rambling lol

 

[ChickAsThieves]

It's not that the dogs are barking, it's the type of barking! It's like this piercing shriekish bark. The dogs look kind of like Dobermans. Do those dogs have a shrieky bark? I'm going to try to record them barking on my phone and see if I can send you the audio. They sound like Hell beasts!

My neighbor across the street has 3-4 medium dogs and they bark a lot, but it doesn't bother me. I have a black lab and a pug. They both bark at people walking by, but when they're outside we're always with them so we re-direct them quickly. Listening to dogs is a part of having neighbors. I don't normally think it's a big deal, it's just these two obnoxious dogs that put me over the edge.

 

[Faraday40]

Many of my neighbors have livestock, including roosters, so listening to crowing comes with the territory. I actually like listening to the roosters compete in their own version of The Voice.

So I just mentioned this morning that my roos rarely crow unless something's wrong. Well they were crowing today. I walked out back, saw no danger, & went back inside. They returned to crowing. ????? I went back out, saw nothing, and headed back toward the house. This time they started up again, before I even got inside. I went into the run & then I noticed that the small door leading into the coop fell closed. The hens were blocked access to their nest boxes & the roos were probably trying to tell me about it. I opened the little door, the hens rushed into the coop, and my boys are quiet again.

It's funny, I love the sounds of roosters. The hoarding neighbor has 7 or 8 yappy dogs that ARE ALWAYS barking. They are WAY more annoying than any rooster. But, roosters are BANNED in my entire city. Even the animal overlay areas - which allows farm animals, are not allowed to have roosters.

I hatch a LOT of eggs. I end up with a LOT of baby roosters. I have had to drop them at the animal shelter, because the feed stores will only take so many. I currently have 2 that are crowing, both have no crow collars, but they don't help that much on silkies....The Ayam Cemani is a lot quieter. Both are inside - 24x7. My Nov/Dec hatched chicks are JUST starting to crow. I have those listed all over the place trying to find takers.

I would LOVE to fight the city to allow ONE rooster. But others have tried, and failed. Again, there are dogs in the neighborhood that are much louder. Stupid rules....

Our daughter is in 4H & our county has a loophole for 4H kids. If they are enrolled in poultry, they may keep roosters. (This goes for bees, goats, & rabbits too.) We don't feel we have enough space for goats & don't want to draw any bad attention. We share our eggs & compost with the neighbors, and everyone has been very supportive. We also made sure to talk about our daughter's project with the neighbors before committing to chickens. It is something you may want to look into & a whole lot easier than trying to fight an ordinance.

What's silly is that people living in the city of Chicago with tiny concrete backyards have no limits on hens, roosters, pigeons, rabbits, & goats. When going on the Windy City Coop tour we saw lots of vertical shelving with container gardening, dwarf fruit trees, unique coops - some housing 20+ chickens, several roosters, and yes 3 dairy goats. It was very interesting to see all the creative ideas out there. Yet, many people in the suburbs have a hen limit of 1 bird per 1/2 acre with a ban on all other poultry & livestock animals.

 

[Jessimom]

It is not the noise that gets them banned it has to do with an illegal activity that they are used for.

The silly part of it is that our boys are not used for that. There is a whole other set of breeds used. The Laws could be changed to allow for Heritage as opposed to the "other" type of boys

Note: we can't discuss this sport here so do not name it

I live in a Valley. Every single city that surrounds us, allows roosters. It's just there are mountains between us. The ENTIRE valley used to be all farms. I have been trying to find out WHEN roosters were banned. I give 90% of the roosters to the local feed stations.

My neighbors have two dogs that they let out at 10 pm every night and they make the most awful baying sound. I wouldn't care if was 7pm, but my kids are in bed at that time and I think it's really rude. These two dogs also stand in the back corner of their yard and bark at me when I'm working out in my own yard. Hopefully, as we landscape this spring we can put up some bushes to block them out. Ugh. I'd rather every single one of my neighbors had a loud rooster than listening to those stupid dogs!

The neighbor's with the yappy dogs are the LAST house down the side of our property. Directly across from the chickens. It's a pretty steep hill, so their roof is below our property line. They are moderate hoarders. They have junk piled all down the side of the house, in their backyard and all we can see inside the back slider is piles and piles of stuff - floor to ceiling. They have the 7 or 8 yappers, (that keep digging in to my yard and harassing my chickens). Last time I caught one, the teen that lives there told me they just had 10 puppies.....

Oh joy.....

 

[frenchiegirl21]

That's a bummer  

I know. It was one of my only 2 that had the right color, and it was a hen! But I have the huge possum that killed it in a trap waiting for me to deal with when I get home there will be vengeance for my baby birdie!

 

[Jessimom]

So I just mentioned this morning that my roos rarely crow unless something's wrong. Well they were crowing today. I walked out back, saw no danger, & went back inside. They returned to crowing. ????? I went back out, saw nothing, and headed back toward the house. This time they started up again, before I even got inside. I went into the run & then I noticed that the small door leading into the coop fell closed. The hens were blocked access to their nest boxes & the roos were probably trying to tell me about it. I opened the little door, the hens rushed into the coop, and my boys are quiet again.




Our daughter is in 4H & our county has a loophole for 4H kids. If they are enrolled in poultry, they may keep roosters. (This goes for bees, goats, & rabbits too.) We don't feel we have enough space for goats & don't want to draw any bad attention. We share our eggs & compost with the neighbors, and everyone has been very supportive. We also made sure to talk about our daughter's project with the neighbors before committing to chickens. It is something you may want to look into & a whole lot easier than trying to fight an ordinance.

What's silly is that people living in the city of Chicago with tiny concrete backyards have no limits on hens, roosters, pigeons, rabbits, & goats. When going on the Windy City Coop tour we saw lots of vertical shelving with container gardening, dwarf fruit trees, unique coops - some housing 20+ chickens, several roosters, and yes 3 dairy goats. It was very interesting to see all the creative ideas out there. Yet, many people in the suburbs have a hen limit of 1 bird per 1/2 acre with a ban on all other poultry & livestock animals.

My daughter is in 4h as well, but I really only signed up was so we could KEEP my chickens. I am divorced and it seems like EVERY time there is a meeting, he has her. He won't take her. So, I've missed more meetings than we've gone to. But 4H allows us to keep up to 6 HENS. I have ten times that. But, it doesn't allow for roos. It is crazy on how the rules change from one city to the next. On city borders, one neighbor can have anything they want, but their next door neighbor would be restricted by their city's rules. Frustrating.

 

[Cynthia12]

Eggs take two days at best to go through the process. Eggs can be fertile after two days but the rooster usually does not mate with each hen every day. Also most roosters will take a week or two to start breeding. Sometimes the hens will beat him up at first. They go through a mating ritual which is very cute

Thank you ron. I've had them breed, got some eggs, but I didn't keep track of how long before I decided to check an egg to be fertile. So pretty quick if the boy is ready. I've seen that cute dance. lol..I am hoping that I will have an EE be..ahem..quiet for a while so he can breed. Won't be until this summer, but I am still waiting for that quiet rooster that I've about here and there.