How to Catch Roosters

Create a box shape with four pieces of plywood. Attach two 1-by-2-foot pieces of wood on the edge of one 3-by-3-foot piece of plywood. Attach with wood glue, then secure with the nails. Attach another 1-by-2-foot piece of wood directly across from the other side of the 3-by-3-foot pieces. Do this with three other pieces of the plywood. Form a box with an open top and bottom, which should be a rectangle in shape. Use additional pieces of wood to reinforce the box if weak in certain areas such as the inside corners of the box.

Continue constructing your rectangle shape box, while using two additional plywood beams. Once you've created the box, place metal wire netting over the open spaces. Utilize a staple gun to attach the netting to the wood. Leave an open end, for the rooster to enter the box.

Measure the opening of the box, determine the correct size of the opening. Cut a correct size piece of plywood to cover the opening. The plywood piece should be large enough to cover the opening as well as small enough to fit inside the box, where it can block the opening.

Connect the plywood to a pivot-swinging hinge that connects to the top of the cut wood piece. This will create a trapdoor that will seal the rooster within the box.

Slice a piece of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe, which is within parameters of the boxes opening. The PVC pipe should fit inside the opening as well as prop up a piece of plywood.

Wrap the utility wire around the PVC pipe and create a snell knot for securing the wire to the pipe. The wire string is the trigger to the trapdoor.

Construct the trap door opening by connecting a 7 ½-inch segment of PVC pipe. Position the pipe at a 90-degree angle within the right or left corner of the box. The PVC pipe will act as a horizontal stabilizer bar, which will support the trap door. The plywood trap door will end up resting flat inside, against the roof of the box. Connect the wire attach to the PVC pipe to the pivot-swinging hinge inside the box.

Move the utility wire to the middle or center of the cage. The trigger wire should hold tension against the PVC pipe. Arrange the utility wire where the slightest tug will set forth the release of the PVC pipe. Once a rooster tugs on the string, the bird will trigger the trap. The PVC pipe will fall and block the pathway of escape for the rooster.

Sprinkle wheatgrass around the utility wire. Wheatgrass is a favorite amongst chickens and rooster and will be effective in lowering these birds into your trap. Additionally, sprinkle grain or corn meal around the cage as well as onto the trigger wire.

Move the cage to a suitable location. Leave the trap overnight or choose to wait it out for a rooster to come by and into the cage. When catching a rooster, relocate the bird as soon as possible.