Mad props to this dude. As an urban dweller, mortified by my rooster’s first crow, I just grab him in the evening and stick him in a cardboard box covered with a couple of blankets in the kitchen. Crows around 9am, much more convenient and the neighbors can’t hear him before I let him back out.

Good solution. Our experience with “chickens” (roosters) resulted in angry notes on our cars.

I wish a relatively sound proof coop was offered for sale.

When researching building a coop, my city's rules didn't allow for a rooster as one of the restrictions.

A lot of cities don't allow you to grow marijuana plants either, but people manage.

We got a collar to work ok, eventually, but then sent it to a farm as an easy win when overall our animals were getting close to what we thought was inconsiderately loud.

Reading the comments on the site is eye-opening. A very common refrain of "That's nice, but obviously not something a real person could do." I am FAR below the technical knowledge of the average HN poster, but nothing there felt so complex that I couldn't sit down and figure it out if I made the effort. Learning everything I'd need to know about chickens to get to the point of needing that feels like a much bigger task than that.

I especially liked the comment "Yeah, but how hot does it get?" right below a 24-hour time/temperature graph with 0.1C resolution. That chicken box is better-instrumented than your average hydrogen maser.

I honestly respected that comment more than a lot of the others, because at least they showed an attempt at understanding. Though I'm not sure whether to attribute their comment on daytime temp in contrast to the articles focus on nighttime temp to their misunderstanding of the projects intent, or my misunderstanding of chickens.

My father in law uses smart switches and timers with servos. His roost has a lot of flaps that can open for ventilation. He has a a few cheap Chinese cameras looking over everything.

I’ve been looking after his chickens and one of the roosters keeps attacking me. If he keeps it up he’s going in my gumbo.

>I’ve been looking after his chickens and one of the roosters keeps attacking me. If he keeps it up he’s going in my gumbo.

I get that it's likely that these animals are being raised for food or eggs, but let's chart out the logic here.

"A rooster, a naturally territorial animal, is aggressive towards a temporary caretaker -- if he continues this natural behavior, the temporary caretaker is going to kill him for meat as vengeance for being attacked."

Two problems :

1)A naturally territorial animal is expected to act otherwise, especially towards an unknown or out-of-the-norm caretaker

2) The roosters' behavior is an excuse to butcher the animal for meat even if not otherwise planned or warranted.

This is all implied with the 'If he keeps it up..'.

I understand that it's (probably) just a cutesy aside comment; but I think that there being a motivation for butchery other than meat ("That chicken is a trouble maker, let's kill him early") adds a layer of cruelty to the otherwise (somewhat) morally balanced and benign proposition of rearing animals for personal sustenance.

(yes, I raise chickens.)

The roosters are illegal and only a few months olds. You cannot reliably sex the chicks or eggs. Doesn’t matter if they attack me or not.

My brother in law already had a visit from the county giving him a couple days to remove the rooster. They come back to verify it’s gone.

The rooster thinks the new guy is an inferior who needs to fall in line with the rest of the hens. All the new guy needs to do is fall in line, eh ..

What disappointed me about those comments was they seemed dismissive when they could have been curious. “I’m not familiar with x, it would really help me get this started, any tips on how to learn more?” Would have been a lot more beneficial.

I know TFA mentioned gas sensors but what about oxygen and carbon dioxide levels? The mufflers he put in don't seem to be big/plentiful enough to let in enough fresh air for those chickens, they're the size of computer fans and passively ventillated most of the time.

The OP thinks that six candles need more oxygen than the two chicken, and tested overnight I believe.

I tried something like this to run 1U servers in my office.

It didn't work :(

Buying soundproof server cabinets is relatively cheap these days (quick search shows an 18RU cabinet with ~15dB reduction is ~$2500 AUD, there are probably better deals out there though). These are relatively simple, but you need slightly outsised cabinets to begin with to have space for accoustic foam, door seals, and I believe they use non-standard forced air cooling at the roof and floor of the cabinet (an array 300+mm "super quiet" fans).

The real challenge is if you are ever tasked with finding a secure cabinet (as in, meeting whatever government standards for holding classified information systems)that is also soundproofed. No one makes these as standard and I only found one place even willing to try modding a standard secure cabinet, with no gaurantees about sound reduction - since it's secure (less holes, holes that exist have baffles etc. that complicate airflow, limited in the modifications you can do without losing your security rating) and has soundproof foam acting as insulation the thermal management becomes a real problem.