OH, but you live in the country!

It happened again yesterday--I got a call about a rooster. It seems an "urban farmer" was told she could keep a few hens in town, but no rooster.
We have been offered at least six roosters so far this year. "They're noisy", "we aren't allowed to keep roosters in our back yard", "I didn't know the Easter chick was a male". These folks don't want a rooster, or can't have a rooster, because of the constant crowing.
"Oh, but you live in the country!" So the rooster will be quiet in a rural environment? Somehow a rooster going off at 3 a.m. isn't annoying on a farm?

 

Too many laws now a days. I forget what kind bird they have here in Koszta.But SCREAM-think called ginea .And a now have a coon hound. Poor guy in Kennel 24-7. But another person got some turkeys.

 

Koszta, yes those guinea hens are a noisy group, but great little garden d-buggers! There is a lady down the road that loans out her guineas for a day or two if you need grasshoppers eaten, or tomato horn worms taken care of (tiny eggs, though).
Eileen, we are still rooster-less. My hens are happy as a sorority and have no plans to open membership in the flock to males!

 

Jane, this subject makes me sooooo mad. I get so disgusted with the ignorance of people....The "pet" would just love it out in the country...(as if the "pet" knows what it is missing out on ) really?! Don't be getting a "pet" that belongs on the farm,( duh!) if you don't have a noise/smell barrier for the neighbors.

We acquired a new black cat in the late Fall...I am sure someone thought it would just be soooooo HAPPY out in the country. But this time the joke was on them...I have the nicest cat I have ever seen and I am not even a real pet lover...Maybe God sent it, as we were in need of him..he rescued us this winter we didn't rescue him. I called all the neighbors and the dog pound to make sure no one had lost him, first though. I am glad he didn't get flattened on the road before he made it to the deck. which is what happened to the last drop off. OOPS. I was really hoping the person who dropped that one got a chance to see it, too.

Pets are pretty much a lifetime commitment for the pet, but people seem to take the responsibility of them pretty lightly once it isn't convenient anymore or they aren't as cute as they were. "Yes...So happy out in the country where they can make noise and run loose"

 

Dogs are what people drop off in our country. they can catch rabbits and squirrels and run around and not have to be indoors all day when no one is home.
Well, they don't know how to catch wildlife or what to do with it when they do. And where do they go when it's cold and rainy. They end up getting run over by a truck or car on the highway.
dooley

 

Chuckle, chuckle, Jane..
Reminds me of the maxim, 'You can fix ignorance, but stupidity is incurable!'
This does bring to mind something I wonder about; I've heard/read somewhere in the past that if you pen a rooster in a low-ceiling pen where he can't raise his head then he won't crow.. I've never bothered to test that but have any of you folks?.... Hank

 

I couldn't agree more! A friend of mine with a farm just got saddled with an overgrown pot bellied pig. I guess it was a cute pet until it grew up
I live in the country and it's amazing how many times I've been asked to take someones 'pet' because it got too big/smelly/noisy.

 

For many years we lived near a Dairy and never were without newly dropped off Kittens or Puppies. People from Town would come a few miles out and give the poor Animals the country experience. Many got run over on the Road or worse.
We also had friends visit from Los Angeles, all he did was complain about all the Bird and Rooster noise, was quieter in the City.
I think selling chicks and bunny's as Easter pets should be outlawed.

 

I couldn't agree with you more about selling bunnies and chicks as "pets" for Easter! About this time of year the chicks aren't "cute" anymore and we get a lot of calls wanting to bring us one no-longer-cute-chick that they got for a child/grandchild for Easter. What lesson are they teaching that child?
Have any of these people ever tried to introduce a younger, strange hen/rooster into an established flock? It ain't pretty!
We are fortunate not to have cats/dogs dropped off. We are on a paved road, and the "droppers" seem to think the dogs/cats would enjoy a gravel road more. I simply could not to that to one of God's creatures, which is why RR (Resident Rabbit) greets me every morning, and we have an opossum living under the workshop. I need to toughen up . . . .

 

This whole thread hits close to home for me.In fact,total frustration of animal treatment,or mistreatment contributed to the stroke I suffered just about a year ago.For probably 20 years,we've witnessed neglect of dogs,cats,goats,horses,chickens & rabbits.I can't swear to the neglect of the chickens & rabbits,but I know they died,one by one.You know what,I actually didn't mind the rooster crowing,probably 50 feet of our bedroom window.Now,we get to listen to a penned up rooster pheasant making his plaintive cry every hour of the day & night.Yes,it does make noise at night. I hear it when I get up in the night.
sewNsow

 

I used to live near a neighbor who had a flock of free-roaming peafowl.. Now those guys (the peafowl) made a somewhat strange sounding call.. I would get lots of chuckles from the expressions, verbal and vocal, of visitors who were not familiar with the sound..

 

I had neighbor once come over said his cat kept having kittens. Told him to take to vet and have fixed. He Said" Do You Think That will help" Me just high school education.And had just got his Master