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We was given a chicken, turned out to be a cockerel.
We went round to the neighbours and explained. He is no issue at all, not really that loud and starts crowing around 7:30am so not that early.
Neighbours got a few chickens a couple of months later and have an unexpected cockerel too!
They both now have at least one crow off a day!
The other neighbour said she likes to hear him as it makes her think she is in the countryside
We went round to the neighbours and explained. He is no issue at all, not really that loud and starts crowing around 7:30am so not that early.
Neighbours got a few chickens a couple of months later and have an unexpected cockerel too!
They both now have at least one crow off a day!
The other neighbour said she likes to hear him as it makes her think she is in the countryside
From my chicken-owning neighbour, the secret of stopping cockerels crowing all hours of the night is to put them in a coop with a roof low enough so that they can't extend their necks to crow.
This seems a bit cruel, but presumably they'll be let out in the day to crow as much as they like.
This seems a bit cruel, but presumably they'll be let out in the day to crow as much as they like.
Mobile Chicane said:
From my chicken-owning neighbour, the secret of stopping cockerels crowing all hours of the night is to put them in a coop with a roof low enough so that they can't extend their necks to crow.
This seems a bit cruel, but presumably they'll be let out in the day to crow as much as they like.
I think i've found him a home....if that fails and the neighbours moan then the slow cooker awaits.... In my defence I do live in the sticks and have lived at my place longer than all my neighbours.This seems a bit cruel, but presumably they'll be let out in the day to crow as much as they like.
Wy wife has kept various cockerels over the years as she breeds chickens and there's usually a few about. It really does vary from bird to bird and breed to breed. We have a huge, magnificent cockerel at the moment with a crow which sounds like soneone treading on a squeeky toy - we've had others where it's literally painfully loud..
We have a single neighbour who lives about 50 mteres from the chickens and fotunately likes the rustic sound - if they complained the cockerels would go. In fairness the noise can be anti-socially loud if you don't like it.
We keep the noise muted by shutting them away at night, which is wise for protection from foxes anyway, and only letting them out at a sensible time. As MC says a low hight coop is often cited as a way of preventing them crowing but when using one temporarily we found the little bugger learnt to crow horizontally
Putting them in the pot earns you lots of 'Bear Grylls' - points and it had to be done Unless they are young and a meat breed you end up with something small and tough at some effort even if you just take the breasts, but you are a real man now...
We have a single neighbour who lives about 50 mteres from the chickens and fotunately likes the rustic sound - if they complained the cockerels would go. In fairness the noise can be anti-socially loud if you don't like it.
We keep the noise muted by shutting them away at night, which is wise for protection from foxes anyway, and only letting them out at a sensible time. As MC says a low hight coop is often cited as a way of preventing them crowing but when using one temporarily we found the little bugger learnt to crow horizontally
Putting them in the pot earns you lots of 'Bear Grylls' - points and it had to be done
Unless they are young and a meat breed you end up with something small and tough at some effort even if you just take the breasts, but you are a real man now...Gassing Station | All Creatures Great & Small | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff