Ralph Morgan

A crowless rooster would be great.  I have a hen that cackles for 15 minutes after she lays an egg and she is as loud as any rooster.  I may have to give her to my sister who lives a mile from neighbors.  
Are there any breeds of cackless hens.

Galadriel Freden said [quote=Another rooster was made into dinner, and we are left with just one, our Tiny bantam English Game rooster.  He's too small to eat (and too cute:  he's adorable), but small as he is, he also needs the collar.  Like others mentioned, we don't let him/them out of the coop until a bit later in the morning, usually around 8am.  Luckily Tiny doesn't crow a lot anyway, and as long as he's only crowing during the day, it's not a problem.

Our neighbor who complained (to us, not the authorities) about last year's batch of roosters unknowingly approached us just as we were plucking them on our back patio.  The look on his face made me think he didn't realize the ramifications of his complaint!



Texas001 replied
I had a bantam Ole English Game Cock named Kramer.  He didn't crow much at all.  We went out of town one weekend and came home to find all my bantams (Kramer and 11 hens)  were stolen.  Can you imagine chicken thieves in Rockport, Texas.

Sally Chang wrote:Here's a question for Victoria: Is there such a thing as a mute rooster? Or, at least a quiet one? My neighbors have made it very plain that they'd rather not live near a raucous roo. I had a roo for a little while. One of those things where the pullet had a sex-change...anyway, he was a nice young gentleman, keeping the hens happy and safe. But then he started getting up really early...so he ended up on the dinner table. I miss him, though, and so do the hens. Can I have happy hens and happy neighbors?

I have some neighbors that complain about roosters but their dog can bark all night long and they do nothing.