How to Stop a Rooster from Crowing
While I have no problem with Mo, a couple of the neighbors do. So I search the net for how to stop a rooster from crowing. I was amazed at how many suggestions were on the net about the subject. The top 200 suggestions were with a shotgun. Then to stop a rooster from crowing on Sunday, eat him on Saturday. Caponizing the bird was recommend but doesn't seem to work. Caponizing by the way is neutering. They crow anyway just with a higher pitch.
Chemical caponizing was mentioned. If enough female bovine hormones were slipped under the neck skin of the rooster, he stopped crowing. The roosters also grew fatter faster and tended to behave oddly. I saw no mention of what type of odd behavior, I could only imagine. If your rooster is kept for breeding, this is not a good option.
An article in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin had a good solution. Cock fighting seems to be legal in Hawaii as of 2004. The reporter interviewed the president of the local game breeders associate. The game breeders keep the roosters in cages covered with blankets or black plastic at night. See the article here. The dark coop idea requires catching the bird every night, or keeping him penned all the time. Not a good idea for free-ranging Mo.
Another good suggestion was building the cage for the bird that allowed him to walk around comfortably, but with the ceiling low enough he could not stretch out to crow. This is reported to work and there is no need to cover the cage. Still you have to catch the bird every night.
The all around best idea uses both the cage height and the dark coop ideas. Build a chicken coop with nesting boxes and perches. The coop should be dark and the perches or roosts arrange like a ladder. The top perch should be close enough to the ceiling of the coop that the rooster cannot stretch out to crow. This way, the birds can then free-range in the day. At night they safely and quietly roost until the coop is opened.
Now all I have to do is build Mo a classy coop. An automatic coop door opener/closer should not be hard to build. I will just need a few sexy hens to entice Mo into the coop at night. To read more see here.
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21 Comments
Post a CommentSlingshots, BB Guns and Pellet Guns are a stealthy way to rid your rooster problem. Won't wake the neighbor idiot who keeps them.
Rat poison. That's the answer. Anyone with roosters around hasn't a clue they piss off everybody around them. The only way is rat poison late at night so you don't get caught.
Thanks! My roos are driving me crazy, loved the comments. Gonna try buckets and boxes tonight, have 3 to keep quiet=)
Go to your local phone book, look up code enforcement under city offices,they will handle this problem. Hope this helps!!!
Can we cut the tip of the tongue? Just a little.
i have two serama bantams the rooster started crowing around 50.30 am so i went out to ring his f.....g neck ha.ha.i just put a box over him at night and let him out in the morning, i do the same with the wife and i have the best sleep a man could have.
I live in a residential area with 1/2 acre lots. My neighbor just got one or two roosters to go along with his racing pidgeons. The Rooster(s) crow ALL DAY LONG! I have timed them and their crows come every 12-15 seconds!!! It wasn't so annoying during the winter months, but now that I have my windows open, I am going MAD!!! I'm not prone to violence, but with this bad economy, I'm on my Last Nerve with the Crowing Rooster! HELP?!
ok. for some reason roosters just roam around freely all over the friggin place in
hawaii and the ones around me have enetered into a 24 hour crowing mode! it's simply unacceptable--OMG!-- and other than shooting them with a high powered water gun (:}), i've haven't found any hope for shutting them the heck UP! they're going off once every 2 seconds--something's GOT to give! help, somebody..
My little sister has several chickens and two roosters. They stay right outside my bedroom (from the outside) and it's like their crow gets louder and louder each time! They especially like to crow at 4 in the morning while I'm asleep. I get easily awaken. I hate them! But my parents aren't willing to do much about it!
Cock fighting is not and has not been legal in Hawaii, its been illegal for a very very long time.