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[Roobaloo]

Ooooo he's beautiful!!!

 

Fingers crossed he's the strong, silent type!!

[mollyripkim]

Oh, he is so lovely, hope you can keep him. His name really suits him too.

[scarlettohara]

He was already called Freckles but yes it does suit him, plan B re sleeping arrangements - just got back from shopping and he had houdinied out of his little run and is sleeping under the roosting bars completely flat with Magpie (she is much smaller though so not squashed ). I've closed the coop door so hope all hell doesn't break loose in the morning - no lie-in for me then

[JillM]

Lie in? When there are chickens around? I think those days might be long past now!!!

[Mollie333]

I love him!!

[Chortle Chook]

He is very beautiful and don't worry he will quiten down and his crowing will be a lot less frantic when he feels more settled. When I first got my little cockerl he made one heck of a din for about 4 days or so, and my OH was going mad at me but he did settle (the cockerel and eventually the OH). Now cockerel Dill only makes a real racket like he did at first, when a stranger comes with a new dog, or the window clearners arrive with their ladders.

[scarlettohara]

He's making loads of noise at the moment, I'm sitting here cringing waiting for the neighbours to knock on my door If he carries on like this I will have to take him back

[CluckyBucks]

He looks very majestic doesn't he

 

xx xx

[tracyann]

He's such a handsome chap isn't he. Cockrells crowing is a sound I miss.

[scarlettohara]

He crowed for an hour so I have just been to see my neighbours and apologise - guess what they didn't hear a thing I didn't let on that it was a cockeral just said something had disturbed the girls and I was sorry if they were woken up

[scarlettohara]

He looks very majestic doesn't he

 

xx xx

 

He thinks he is a Jersey Giant I can pick him up with one hand

[scarlettohara]

I love him!!

 

We do too but sadly he is just too noisy for a suburban garden I tried him in a dog crate in the conservatory last night but for a little chap he is incredibly loud, he started crowing at 6 am and is still at it It is not fair on the neighbours and I'm on tenterhooks every time he crows. I will have to return him as it wouldn't be fair to keep him in a crate when he could live happily outside somewhere else

[Purplemaniacs]

Oh that is a shame , can you not give him a few more days to settle in more, perhaps he would be quieter when he is more settled.

 

Chrissie

[Roobaloo]

Oh no!

Was the crate covered? Conservatories do tend to echo sound..?

Oscar is currently in the Eglu, with a heavy blanket and a waterproof sheet over it. He crows any time from about 7:30 - 8:30, sometimes it's a little longer...but it's very muffled. Before we covered the eglu, he crowed at 5am!!

I can hear him as the window is directly above the eglu (and our double glazing is awful!) but you can't from anywhere else in the house! The girls make more noise announcing their eggs!!

 

He's quiet now so I'm about to let him out.

 

It might work for your lad..?

[scarlettohara]

When he stops I think I should but at 6 am this morning all I could imagine was the neighbours being woken up and cross. I don't want to spoil my enjoyment of the chooks with lots of complaints

[scarlettohara]

Covered with a sleeping bag ! My girls are at the end of my garden and others gardens back onto them so it's not so much my neighbours either side. My conservatory is rubbish anyway with single glazing so I put him in the kitchen after about an hour. Do you think in an eglu with a cover over outside would be better or would it be cruel to put him in the garage

[Mollie333]

Oh no..

 

When my boys voice ''broke'' he didn't stop crowing! He'd just wake up - in the dark - and crow none stop. He settled down though. Maybe try putting him in the eglu, with a blanket over. It wouldn't be cruel to put him in the garage, that would be a better idea than the conservatory/kitchen.

 

When Bruno had mycoplasma, he started crowing at 4:00AM. He was in my bedroom. I don't sleep well anyway, but i finally got to sleep and he started crowing! So, to ensure it was the darkest it could be, i put him in his box in the wardrobe.

 

Hope you find a way to keep him quiet, as its such a shame he's a really pretty boy, bet he'd create some nice chicks too!

[miller30]

Hi i know some people will disagree with me but i have a little pekin bantam teddy he has to be taken away from his ladies at night and put inside a broody coop which is inside my big brick duck house so the neighbours cant hear him crow i hate doing this and have now decided that when he goes to the big chicken coop in the sky if someone doesnt moan about him before that i will never have another cockeral until i move as and they can crow all they like and go to bed as they should beable to with their ladies if i could turn back the clocks i wish i had never kept him i love him to bits but feel seperating him every night is not fair on him my partner gets cross and tells me to if im gonna keep a cockeral let him be one and sod the neighbours but i just like a peaceful life goodluck in what you decide to do scarletohara leanne

[scarlettohara]

Thanks Leanne, I too want a quiet life with the chooks (too much horrid stuff going on in other areas) but then I did set myself up for this so think I should give a better go. He's outside now and quiet as a mouse, I'm going to try my broody coop (see below) covered in a shed which is in the far corner of the garden and see how we get on.

 

 

If anyone has any better ideas or opinions (even negative ones !) please post away

[scarlettohara]

He is only young Mollie so could be that

[karlotta]

I never intended to keep any of the cockerels I hatched last year, but somehow I've got three... They are a bit noisy but so far no one has complained... I bring my three into a spare Go in the garage at night and they go out about half 7 in the morning. I hope my neighbours don't mind the daytime noise too much... but I do pop some eggs over to the nearest neighbour occasionally!

 

Your little man looks gorgeous - it's worth persisting to see if he calms down a little bit and with experimenting with night time arrangements.

[scarlettohara]

I think the eglu will be a better option - more soundproof, better go and do some juggling

 

I've just seen my next door neighbour (who I get on really well with) to take eggs and they haven't heard a thing so that's good news

[oneyolktoanother]

Oh he is lovely

[Redwing]

A covered coop or one in a shed or garage is a good idea so hopefully that will do the trick

 

The only problem with this option is finding someone who will do this when you want to go away and it can become a tie

[scarlettohara]

All sorted now with in shed with thick sleeping bag at the ready

 

Re holidays - I am pretty sure Alma would cockerel sit for me if I ever manage a holiday