Rooster woes ... any advice?

[tessiemez]

Okay, I'm at the end of my straw, here.

Two wild/abandoned roosters decided to make their roost directly outside my toddler's bedroom window. For the past year, the roosters have spent their time running around the apartment complex during the day, and spent the night outside her window, starting to crow around 4:30-5:00a. There's a hill outside our building, and they'd walk to the top of the hill (about 60 feet, maybe?) and crow all fraking morning, always waking her up and keeping her from going back to sleep. I called animal control twice to try to convince them to take these birds, and they refused, because they're "too hard to catch". Our complex manager says there's nothing that can be done about it.

Recently, the roosters were fighting outside our window as I left for work. When I got home, one of the roosters was dead. Since then, Only the Lonely has stayed at their bush, crowing constantly. Right outside our daughter's window. She's not getting nearly enough sleep because he crows all day and all night, without letting up. I've never wanted to harm an animal like I want to harm this guy. He's keeping us all up. (We do have a downstairs neighbor who's even closer to the crowing, but she just takes off her hearing aid).

We have three months left in our lease agreement and have been planning to move anyway, though I can't imagine living this way much longer. My daughter's being a trooper, but her sleep disturbances are definitely taking their toll on her moods (and mine!). The apartment won't do anything, animal control won't do anything ... does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[disneyfans95]

Pellet or paintball gun..

Shoot it a few times.

 

[Toad_Passenger]

Okay, I'm at the end of my straw, here.

Two wild/abandoned roosters decided to make their roost directly outside my toddler's bedroom window. For the past year, the roosters have spent their time running around the apartment complex during the day, and spent the night outside her window, starting to crow around 4:30-5:00a. There's a hill outside our building, and they'd walk to the top of the hill (about 60 feet, maybe?) and crow all fraking morning, always waking her up and keeping her from going back to sleep. I called animal control twice to try to convince them to take these birds, and they refused, because they're "too hard to catch". Our complex manager says there's nothing that can be done about it.

Recently, the roosters were fighting outside our window as I left for work. When I got home, one of the roosters was dead. Since then, Only the Lonely has stayed at their bush, crowing constantly. Right outside our daughter's window. She's not getting nearly enough sleep because he crows all day and all night, without letting up. I've never wanted to harm an animal like I want to harm this guy. He's keeping us all up. (We do have a downstairs neighbor who's even closer to the crowing, but she just takes off her hearing aid).

We have three months left in our lease agreement and have been planning to move anyway, though I can't imagine living this way much longer. My daughter's being a trooper, but her sleep disturbances are definitely taking their toll on her moods (and mine!). The apartment won't do anything, animal control won't do anything ... does anyone have any suggestions?

See if you can find a local farmer. They may take it off your hands. If not, they may have a better recommendation.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Have you checked your local newspaper for an animal rescue of some kind? Usually if you call them and explain the nuisance they will find someone to help you. If that bird is annoying you it's got to be annoying others and at some point someone is going to hurt it... could be that's what happened to the one that died.

 

[Carnie]

Craigslist! Offer it as a pet or "free range eatin'".

 

[Scurvy]

Make him want to leave. Get a Super Soaker and shoot him any time you see him outside that window. Eventually he'll decide that he'd be happier somewhere else.

 

[Disfan1]

Check with your County Extension office or local FFA (Future Farmers of America) chapter. They may be able to give you some ideas.

 

[Heidict]

Kill him and cook up a stew for dinner. That is what we did with the rooster that flogged me when I was younger.

 

[tlbwriter]

I know they sell predator urine sprays to help keep deer away; I wonder if that would work with a rooster. Or something visual, like a scarecrow or those fake cats or owls they use to keep squirrels away.

If the noise is worse in your daughter's room, is there anywhere else she could sleep? Maybe with the help of a white noise machine?

 

[tiggger1]

Im sorry but killing or hurting an animal is abuse...Im sorry its a nuisance but killing or hurting it isnt the right thing to do...annoying or not.

if you really want it gone...and the animal control wont take it. you can do two thinks catch it and find it a home for it. you might be able to find a rescue farm and they might take it. if you want to send me you location and I can see if I can find someone...

 

[Heidict]

Im sorry but killing or hurting an animal is abuse...Im sorry its a nuisance but killing or hurting it isnt the right thing to do...annoying or not.

if you really want it gone...and the animal control wont take it. you can do two thinks catch it and find it a home for it. you might be able to find a rescue farm and they might take it. if you want to send me you location and I can see if I can find someone...

Not if it's done in a humane and painless way. But then again, maybe having been raised where something like this was a way of life colors my view on it.

 

[katesorad]

Im sorry but killing or hurting an animal is abuse...Im sorry its a nuisance but killing or hurting it isnt the right thing to do...annoying or not.

I agree with you 100%. Killing an animal for no reason other than annoyance is awful.

Call a local farmer or your local farming association. They will have some humane ideas. And maybe one of the local farmers will even want to come take it home with him.

 

[tiggger1]

Not if it's done in a humane and painless way. But then again, maybe having been raised where something like this was a way of life colors my view on it.

im sorry but killing a animal, humanly or not, just because it is annoying or loud IS abuse. What if it was a neighbor's dog that barked outside the window.. would you do the same thing?

 

[Judy Judy Judy]

Is there not a local farmer somewhere that has a cage trap where you might can trap him and the farmer can take him home?
It may take a little work but it would be worth it to give the rooster a better life. If he is staying in the same place all the time set the trap and leave it and he should enter it if there's some sort of food in there.
Be kind, he's just doing what's in his nature.

 

[Disney Doll]

Did Only the Lonely kill the other rooster?

 

[Heidict]

im sorry but killing a animal, humanly or not, just because it is annoying or loud IS abuse. What if it was a neighbor's dog that barked outside the window.. would you do the same thing?

I would have no problem at all with humanly killing the rooster. Like I said, I have seen it done before, for reasons I'm sure you or many others would not feel were justified.

Have you ever set out a trap for a mouse or killed an ant or a fly? I have, many times. I have no problem with killing an animal that is a nuisance or a pest. I would never torture an animal or beat one though. There is a difference.

 

[U2_rocks!]

im sorry but killing a animal, humanly or not, just because it is annoying or loud IS abuse. What if it was a neighbor's dog that barked outside the window.. would you do the same thing?

I'm guessing you don't eat chicken?

 

[Heidict]

I forgot to address the dog question. If it was a dog that had decided to take up residence under my DD's window then I would call the dog warden and let them handle it.

If the dog was posing a danger to myself or my child then I would not hesitate in killing him.

 

[U2_rocks!]

Having said the above, I could not have killed and eaten the rooster we had, because he was a pet. DS had brought him home from school when he was tiny (wild chickens were running around the school yard) and we were hoping he was a hen. When it became clear that he wasn't, we kept him until he started trying to crow. Actually, we would have kept him a little longer, because he wasn't crowing loudly yet and only after we let him out of his pen in the morning, but DS brought home 2 new tiny chicks from school and the rooster was getting aggressive with them. We knew he'd have to go eventually anyway, so we made the decision to give him away then. My FIL came and took him to a farm near him where he knows he will be well looked after.

A wild rooster set up house under our bedroom window when DH and I were newly married, and I would have happily eaten him! But not having the set-up to kill and pluck chickens, we trapped him under a bush and locked him in an old dog house we had, and found a farmer who would come for him. That rooster was beyond annoying, so I know how you feel, OP.

 

[Imzadi]

How about sticking to the questions the OP asked instead of hijacking this into a PETA debate?


OP, if you only have 3 months left on the lease, it might be easier to relocate your DD than to relocate the rooster. How about turning the living room couch into DD's temporary sleeping area? Are there other places in the apartment she can sleep? Is that a pic of her in your siggie? She looks small enough to move once she's asleep. If you use the living room for several hours after her bed time, maybe start her off in your bedroom, then move her to the living room when you go to bed.