4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[fluffyknickers]

I suppose now I am getting chickens I am noticing chicken things more but yesterday I was in a carpark in a village near me and it was around 1.30pm and there was a cockeral crowing in someones garden. Well, I never realised it was SO loud and SO often.

 

My two year old now keeps going "cock a doodledooooooo" really loud.

 

When we were listening out it was more than once a minute!!!

 

For those of you with these boys I can only assume you dont have neighbours!

 

It was great to hear though!

 

michelle x

[Egluntyne]

I live about a mil away from Whirlow Hall Farm and can often hear the roosters crowing there.....and so can my girls, who listen intently.

[tom123]

I have 1 neighbour but mine rarely crows and she even says its quite nice

 

Tom

[Barkisland]

I never noticed it until I got my girls, but someone in our vicinity has a cockerel. I now regularly hear him especially at weekends, but it doesn't bother me in the slightest. I think it's a lovely sound. I've noticed my girls cock their heads to one side and try to work out where he is too

[abwsco]

We would love to have a cockerel and we could have come home with the most gorgeous bantam one the other week but hubby was sensible as the coop is too near neighbours:(

[Janty]

We had Cyril for one night when we rescued him and that was enough.

 

 

Bless him, he could crow.

[Cinnamon]

Our Indiana is only a small chap, being a Poland Bantam, but he is really loud.

You do manage to tune it our after a while though.

 

In the height of summer he can start going off at 4am

[Plum]

Are you tempted.

[Chillicat]

I had to send my Buff Sussex cockerel back to where I got the hatching egg from...just before he started crowing as I live in a residential close, with old neighbours either side, who are at home all day Apparently, cockerels can crow all day long but, it is a lovely sound. I'd much prefer a cockerel crowing sound than road traffic!

[Gallina]

I am afraid everything that everyone says about cockerels is true. They are very very noisy and you can't tell them to shut up (in fact, it makes them worse).

 

I have just had to get rid of my beauty (sob). I was even getting tired of the noise myself, and was worried about my neighbours.

 

The thing that made it easier was that the girls' backs were getting damaged from his constant attention, and one had a bloody injury. I did not really want to buy saddles for the girls (especially as I didn't want them to get pregnant anyway!).

 

And he needed more space, which he now has (at a special school which keeps chickens in a protected field). But I miss his lovely long shoulder-length hair, and the way he organized the girls and stopped their silly behaviour.

 

I don't regret keeping him as long as I did, as it was so interesting. But I wouldn't do it again.

[nutterly_uts]

I think it is one of the "olde world" noises that'll soon only be heard in a few select places.

Its a shame really, but very understandable. Personally the noise doesn't bother me, and we can vaguely hear a neighbour's cockeral from across several fields, which makes me want my own! Sadly I live in a terraced house, else I would have one. My neighbours are lovely, but I don't think quite lovely enough to put up with a cockeral!

[BeckyBoo]

My buff sussex boy had quite a harsh high pitched cock-a-doodle-do but my Brahma has a very deep and booming voice! Sadly he starts at anything from 4.30-5ish even though it's obviously hours til dawn, he crows intermittently all day, if you're in the garden he stands right in front of you and yells COCK-A-DOODLE-DOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! in your face! :shock:He does it ALL the time you're in the garden too! In fact it's a bit cringe-making because one side don't like it and I'm supposed to have taken him to his new home, but he's SOOOOO gorgeous that I've sort of not been rushing to do it. Then his new home was snowed in, then we were away and on and on....but sadly he doesn't stop in the evenings either. If the cat walks past he crows, he has to remind everyone he's still there at 8pmish, then again about 11.30pmish, he really doesn't know how to win friends and influence people! So he will go, and I'm not hatching any more Brahma eggs because I so SO want one and I so SO won't want to let another boy go and I can't bring myself to eat them either.

But it is a beautiful sound, in moderation and at a distance for a short time

 

BeckyBoo

[Gallina]

I won't have another cockerel either. I don't regret having experienced them, though. It was very interesting, and taught me a lot (including the fact that they just aren't suitable for gardens and confined spaces).

 

But why do they have to be so handsome? My second one that I kept for longer was a Brahma too, and he had gorgeous shoulder-length hair.