keyhole kate Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 How noisey are small breed cockerels such as frizzles,pekins,silkies and do they crow all day I really hanker to have one in my flock but live in town and have close neighbours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Noisy!!! The smaller breeds tend to have quite shrill crows aswell which are far more annoying than the deeper crows of larger breeds (In my opinion). Also bear in mind that come June they'll be crowing at 3am potentially Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckmum6 Posted January 1, 2012 Share Posted January 1, 2012 Onion my Wyandotte bantie, crows at 4am ish for a bit then again at getting up time 7 ish. He crow through out the day at various points, sometimes in response to our front gate opening, or in answer to the three other neighbouring cocks or just because he fancies it! He is persistent and loud, I live in a rural village and haven't had complaints (apart from my OH), consider carefully they are noisy by nature, but do add to flock dynamics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coco Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 Very shrill. I am sitting in my living room with the TV on all all doors and windows closed and my Barbu d Uccle bantam cockerel Rufus has just stopped his morning crow. Luckily he only does it for about 5 mins a time. He was bought as a hen and has only started crowing a few weeks ago. He is ok at the moment due to the dark mornings and I didn't let him out till 8. 15 and he was quite till then. I shall have to see what happens when the lighter mornings come as to whether I will keep him or not. He is lovely though and has a great charecter. We have neighbours on three sides , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyhole kate Posted January 2, 2012 Author Share Posted January 2, 2012 Thanks everyone I guess I was clutching at straws even though I could put him in my brick shed to a reasonable hour understandably my neighbours would complain. Ah well I guess I will have to work on OH to downsize to a chook suitable property Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmastar Posted January 2, 2012 Share Posted January 2, 2012 I would love to get a cochin boy but aso have no idea how i could keep him quiet till a reasonable hour . My friend has silkies and the boys make a racket at each other most of the day . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
