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If you take your time putting these on, they work. They need to be high on the neck, UNDER the feathers, and I doubled them up because they are not very wide. They need to be fairly tight. The roosters hate them at first, the run around backwards and do all kinds of weird moves to try to get them off, but after about 30 minutes they start acting normal again.

They work-ish. I had better success with a cord wrap and the only difference was the width. Proper placement and tightness is key. I found the best place is at the base of the long neck feathers. Lift up the feathers and secure it with just enough space for your finger TIP! It will hide under the feathers if you do it correctly. Respiratory distress and Panting is too tight, running backwards is normal. They need to be a bit wider. The important thing to know is the strap doesn’t stop the rooster from crowing, it just limits the ability of the trachea to dilate. There will still be crowing, it will just be quieter and sound like the roo is being choked out. Also, they will hate it at first but they will get used to it and life will go on.

Our city started allowing backyard flocks but 0 roosters. I enjoy hatching my own chickens and, in one particularly successful hatch, we got 9 roosters. Being an animal lover, I couldn't bring myself to dispose of them so I kept them until I could find a rescue to take them. Once they started crowing the noise was awful. Imaging 9 roosters competing to be heard! I decided, despite the mixed reviews to try the crow collars. They didn't work on every bird BUT they worked on most of them and the noise from the crowing was reduced by 80%. The colors were well built and stayed on because they ended up buried in the bird's neck feathers. However, they were not easy to use. It was a two person process to get them on. I had to take each bird and hold it upside down by its feet so it wouldn't attack then have my daughter feel for just the right spot to place the collar. They were easy to adjust to the proper size and the fit stayed pretty spot on due to the Velcro adjustment. But, initially the roosters were mad and I did have a couple that attempted to crow and one that we just couldn't get the collar to fit right to hinder his crowing. All in all, would I buy them again? Yes. After the first couple of days of use, my neighbor started asking what we had done with our roosters because he didn't hear them anymore so they were definitely effective!

We had a fella who was fond of crowing somewhere between 3:30 and 4:00 every single morning. While he can still make a little bit of noise with his collar on, it's not enough to carry the sound or wake anyone up. He seemed really frustrated by it when we first put it on him, which makes sense, but after an hour or so he just carried on with normal life. It doesn't seem to be holding him back with any of the ladies either, if you know what I mean.

I got these for my dad for his chickens since the chickens are in such close quarters to my bedroom so they don’t wake me up at 6 AM and they worked great for the first day but the material at the collars made out of is kind of a uncomfortable, rough material which swell the necks of the chickens, due to irritation and chokes them. We just lost a chicken due to this, but it does work if it’s adjusted properly. I believe if it was made of a different material, it would have no irritation, and there will be no swelling.