Cockerel on housing development - yay or nay?

This! ^^!
Theres always rats and vermin where there’s fowls.
Report to your local Council Environmental Health.

No way

YANBU

I had elderly friends whose lives were made a misery by this and very noisy children

They had to move from their home of 30+ years because of it

Get some windchimes in retaliation

So do they just crow at sunrise ? Or do they crow at sunrise and for a certain amount of time after ? Or do they just start at sunrise and do it all through the day?

Sorry I don’t know that much about cocks

New build estates normally come with restrictive covenants. Usually the keeping of livestock is forbidden.

Unless your neighbour has hens I would shop them. Otherwise GTFO.

I sometimes feel like the only person in the world who likes cockerels. I love lying in bed hearing them cockling and doodling and knowing that I can roll over and go back to sleep. Our neighbour had one for a while and it was great but someone complained and it had to go

My anger is reserved for the inconsiderate w*nkers that let huge noisy fireworks on late at night for so far as I can tell no good reason. I don't want to feel the explosion and think it's a flipping bomb... but natural bird noises are OK.

We used to live in the country and had roosters. They crowed at any hour of the day or night. I wouldn't dream of having one in a housing estate.

It's possible that it's from a clutch of eggs that they hatched, and they might plan to keep it. But if I were you I'd contact the council about it.

I live on a new build estate and we are not allowed livestock. I would call the council

Chickens, yes. Cockerel, no.

I used to live on a little estate in an inner city and there was some sort of community vegetable garden round the corner, and they had some chickens too. All fine. Then, inexplicably, they got a cockerel and I swear to god the noise nearly started an early hours of the morning riot. It woke basically the whole estate up at 3-4am every morning for about a week and then people started shouting at it and then people started shouting at THEM for making more noise and then a man who had been trying to get his baby to sleep basically went round and told the bloke who ran the community veg place that he would ring the bird’s neck if it stayed and there was a big row.

We never heard it again after that so we assumed he either did ring its neck or Foghorn Leghorn was found a more suitable home. I hope the latter.

I had this years ago. Neighbour had a cockerel in a built up area. Another neighbour reported it and they were made to get rid of it. Woke the whole street up in the early hours!

Foxes will help to control the mice and rats. And the chickens if they haven't got very, very strong enclosures.

Most councils don’t allow backyard cockerels.

Even on our allotments we are not allowed them and they are reported if found due to nuisance noise and environmental health come out and ban them for the noise.

I'd expect that in the country tbh

We live on a housing estate, albeit in a village. There are at least 5 or 6 cockerels in various houses around us. You honestly get used to it and I barely notice them.

When we first moved here (busy street in town), there was one a few doors away. It woke me up every morning between 3-4am. I hated it.

I’d also be concerned about vermin. A pest controller friend says that where there’s chickens, there’s rats. (I know rats are all around us, but apparently they’re more prevalent where there are chickens. Also compost heaps and decking.)

I’m thinking that keeping chickens will encourage mice, rats and foxes……

My DS and DDIL live in a new build property. Keeping chickens is expressly forbidden on the deeds.

Hell we had chickens on a rural rental farmhouse. . Still needed council permissions and def wasn't allowed a cockersl.. Not that I asked about one.... And now all chooks need registered with Defra no matter how many you keep. Council is your go to now op.

My neighbours have one. I appear to be the only person it bothers, as I have asked around, trying to get support from them. But, my neighbour has done the decent thing after I approached them and got him a blackout coop which he can't get out of before 8am. It isn't perfect and some days I still hear him, but it is a lot later and a lot more muffled.

As well as checking with the local council regarding unreasonably interfering with the use and enjoyment of neighbouring properties including disturbance from noise, check the covenants for the estate - is there anything on keeping poultry?

Worth checking your deeds and with the local council. While there is no law against keeping chickens in your garden, there are often bylaws about keeping cockerels in a built up area and the covenants attached to the new housing development may well prohibit keeping of livestock ( and chickens in law count as livestock)

Real dick move, neighbour. I'd be fuming. I lived in a small village with a native cockerel that woke us all up at the crack of dawn when I was little...nobody claimed him, and nobody liked the bugger.

I agree with what everyone else has said. They're loud enough in the country; I can't believe they're allowed, so I'd start searching for more information. I suppose if you're friendly, you could speak directly to them, but I'd rather report it anonymously, to save time. There's really no room for compromise here: If it's not allowed, it has to go.