My next project is to create something that counts rooster crows. I have about 10 roosters and I would like to see which one crows the most. Crowing is usually done between the hours of 4am and 6am so having something count the crows would be much better than waking up every morning.
Would a voice recognition shield be the best option?
Can I accomplish the same feat by recording the crow and matching it with some input voltage produced by a microphone?
For voice recognition the rooster will have to crow exactly the way he did before. And you are going to need 10 units. Even then it will have a significant error, so your end calculation will be off.
It would be possible to count the crows with just a sound detector device. Then just log the data from it. But, it would count all the crows together.
+10 points to the OP for the most novel problem this month !
Are the roosters free ranging or in individual pens ? Would it ruffle their feathers too much to have a small device collar on them ? I’m not sure about “speech” recognition but if that could ever work the path I see is to have (multiple) recordings of each rooster on a PC to play with.
1st world problems…
And I just came up with the most novel solution this month: rooster shock collars.
Mine attacks me pretty much every time I feed the flock. Finally started whacking him hard with whatever is at hand and he’s backed off. Either I come up with a shock collar or something or he’s going to end up in a coq-au-vin recipe.
Why do I have a vision of Julia Child in my mind ? :mrgreen:lyndon:
… or he’s going to end up in a coq-au-vin recipe.
LOL, roosters are mean as hell. The last one that attacked me while I was feeding, I beat it with a 2x4 that was laying right next to the gate…
How about Crow Cam ? When a loud enough sound is detected, a video cam is activated for some seconds. The OP will still have to do the ID’ing of the rooster but at least he won’t have to get up at 4AM and spend hours at the task. I’m sure we could find multiple way to over complicate this ! :twisted:
Could a R-Pi do rooster ‘facial’ recognition ?
Get a second rooster. They’ll be too busy fighting each other over the hens, that they have no time to crow.
stevech:
Get a second rooster. They’ll be too busy fighting each other over the hens, that they have no time to crow.
Actually I never thought of that. These 10 roosters must either be already separated, or pretty young (cockerels) or they’d have killed each other by now. You can sometimes keep two together if they’ve known each other all their lives and they have plenty of space, but even that’s tricky.
