Rooster Abatement

[Dr. Liz]

How about a call to your friendly local animal control representatives? I mean, if they can fish alligators out of pools, surely they can handle a rooster....

[East Hill]

This reminds me of the co-worker who had a Muscovy duck move in on her property. She eventually cornered it in the dark, but she had help.

I would suggest that you may have to get the shotgun out (the .410). A BB gun would work, but would have to be a accurate shot to either the head or neck.

Don't use a .22! It is too dangerous in even rural areas when they are that close.

Good luck! By the way, roosters will need to be stewed in case you want to dispose of the 'evidence'.

East Hill

[RolliePollie]

I bet you charmed him

But his pride precluded him from admitting it directly to you, so he just left.

Congrats of the progress

Well, evidently my charm did the trick. Mr. Rooster seems to be gone. I haven't even heard him crowing in the distance, so I have no idea what happened to him. We do have dogs and coyotes around here, so you never know. I haven't heard any gunfire but one of the neighbors may have plugged him while I was at work. Of course, there's the distinct possibility that he'll be back any time now. But perhaps he was a reasonable fellow and decided to heed my advice and get the heck out of here!

He really was a ratty looking rooster. I almost wonder if he was being kept for cock fighting and then he got dumped for some reason. He hardly had any tail feathers and his feathers in general were a mess. Oh well, the important part is that he's gone and I can sleep now!

[RolliePollie]

Hilarious thread

There's a Norwegian childrens book series (prob. originally Swedish, come to think of it) about an elderly gentleman Pettersen and his cat Findus, who live alone in the countryside with a lot of animals. The drawings are just gorgeous, detailed and very funny.

Anyway, one of the books is about how the rooster Jussi (named after the famous tenor Jussi Bjørling) comes to the farm, and drives them all insane with his crowing. They reason with him, and set rules - five minutes of crowing every hour on the hour, only in the morning etc - but all this just makes Jussi very very mopey, frustrated and unhappy.

SPOILER

He finally gives up and disappears during the night. The hens are left behind to sigh and mourn, and dream up heroic stories about him coming back someday

That's funny - it's been translated into German but I couldn't find it in English:
http://www.amazon.com/Findus-Hahn-Ko...695009&sr=8-16

What a great book! I love children's books...especially the illustrations. I may have to get a copy in German just to look at the pictures!