Yuck. I hope she gets better, and is able to come home (preferably soon!)
Spare time? Good luck!
For noise reduction, other than being tall, I think it is most helpful for it to be solid or textured or both. A dense hedge might be good, because the sound waves bounce around among the leaves...
For people who raise chickens for show, dubbing the comb & wattles is required for some breeds (rather like dog breeds with docked tails or cropped ears.)
So unless or until those breeds change their standards, dubbing males will continue to happen for show birds of those kinds.
Some people in...
OP said they are in individual pens.
Anyone who keeps birds in individual pens, and tends them each day, absolutely WILL know that one is missing.
OP said animal control already was called, and said they could not do anything.
Not necessarily. It could just be a business of one kind or another...
I was wondering if he was raising them for their feathers (for flytying or some other use.)
What makes you say the roosters are close to OP and not close to the roosters' owner?
The only distance I see mentioned is this:
It looks to me like the roosters are 450 feet from OP's house, and...