How do you keep a rooster
from waking your family and neighbors up at 4am?



A “Do Not Disturb” sign won’t
help…it would take longer to teach him to read.



One solution is to locate
the coop on the far edge of your property, but this might make things
easier for local predators. The thing that works for me is White Noise.
Sleeping with a fan or a White Noise machine is the only way I’ve been
able to sleep through our rooster’s morning wake up call.

Our chickens seemed to enjoy
the hanging
coconut treat, but a week
after I suspended it with a rope in the coop there was still over half
the meat left.



I think it was a yummy
diversion while they stayed in during heavy snow days.



Peeking at a swinging treat
helps to stretch out the food, but it might take too long depending on
how patient your chickens are. I decided to drill a hole through the
middle and mount the remaining coconut to a piece of wood near the
ground. Now they can get more than a nibble without the swinging out of
reach effect.