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To Want To Kill This Cock.

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JemimaMuddleFuck · 26/02/2011 09:46

Over the road have added a Cockerall to their menagerie. They're not farmers, think Tom and Barbara from the Good Life; but stinking rich; and no idea/sense.

4.15am every bloody morning since he arrived (last week) he starts crowing. It's not even Dawn. It's pitch bloody black.

Currently briefing lazy sodding cat who sleeps all day my killing machine.Angry

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RIZZ0 · 26/02/2011 11:20

And yanbu, but what can you do in y'country?

If it was a city it'd be a siren at 4am...

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JemimaMuddleFuck · 26/02/2011 11:21

OThe Huge.
A lot of it stems from that I suppose. They're townies playing farmers (fair enough; it's their "dream" I would imagine); but animals aren't toys or accessories.
Even if you eat them, they still deserve the respect of knowledgeable and expert husbandry in the interim.

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RIZZ0 · 26/02/2011 11:22

Y'country?

t'country!

throws cocking phone out of window...

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JemimaMuddleFuck · 26/02/2011 11:26

It's a cockerel!

This I know; however I have a severe sleep deprivation, a dreadful head cold; and all my brain synapses are completely strangled with snot.

I also have a noisy cock the size of a fucking turkey with a loud hailer (that's probably spelt wrong too).

I am also in sole charge of the dishwasher as DH has fucked off snowboarding with his bastard mates dear friends.

So you can just stick your cockeral up your pendant bum RizzoGrin

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jonicomelately · 26/02/2011 11:36

Would you feel differently if they were a family who'd been there for years and made their living selling eggs? I think you would. I don't feel you are being unreasonable. It's disrupting your life unnecessarily Smile

jonicomelately · 26/02/2011 11:36

Would you feel differently if they were a family who'd been there for years and made their living selling eggs? I think you would. I don't feel you are being unreasonable. It's disrupting your life unnecessarily Smile

duchesse · 26/02/2011 11:39

We live in the countryside. Our neighbours are all dairy farmers. This means that they are up at 4:30 every day clanking around in great JCBs and tractors moving feed around, hauling slurry around and slewing it all over the roads, spraying it on the fields to fertilise and making a big smell twice a year. Everyone (including us) has a cockerel in this village.

Do any of complain about each other? No we do not. This is the countryside, and we're all custodians of it. It's a fucking sight quieter than 1/2 mile from the M3, 30 miles from Central London, where frankly a cockerel would have been a relief from the endless traffic, police helicopters and sirens and the bloody Chinooks going overhead.

Perspective, and live and let live. Wait a few weeks and you won't even notice the bird any more. Obsess about it and you'll never stop hearing it.

C0FFEE · 26/02/2011 11:56

There is a difference if there is something already established and already their and something new being introduced

How would you feel duchesse if the farmer sold up and they were going to build a housing estate on the land, would you be jumping with joy; after all it is no big deal there are houses already in the area.

I bet you would be protesting.

pjmama · 26/02/2011 12:02

Just send in the cat and keep your fingers crossed it's hard enough! [evilgrinemoticon]

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JemimaMuddleFuck · 26/02/2011 12:02

No I wouldn't feel differently if they were doing it for years and years and selling eggs.

Have never lived in a city, nor do I want to Duchesse, having lived in the country all my life, so I am quite familiar with farm machinery rattling the house to the foundations et al; no complaints here.
I am not obsessing. I am being woken from a deep sleep at an ungodly hour ; by a cock the size of a turkey right by my bedroom window.

If the owners of the cockerel aren't prepared to put up with it; then neither should I have to.
Their expensive (no doubt) chicken coop has been abandonned because the cockerel was obviously also disrupting their sleep.
This (as far as I know) is not a native species; I've never seen one this size/stature on any farm ever.

Anyway for the first time since Dc's were small, I'm off for a mid day nap

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C0FFEE · 26/02/2011 12:03

Why would anyone want a cockerel? I have relatives who own a dairy farm and have some hens, sure they do not have a cockerel!

Can they guard against rats, foxes, cats and so on?

RIZZ0 · 26/02/2011 12:04

To be fair the cat won't achieve much - our neighbours cats have been rubbish at getting near my chooks.

Pet fox?

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 26/02/2011 12:07

It might be worth asking your neighbours to at least try and keep their cockerel quiet until a reasonable time. If they were to take some quite simple measures, they could reduce his volume/early calls considerably. I don't think YABU to ask them to attempt this tbh.

dwpanxt · 26/02/2011 12:08

You do know that the only reason they bought it is so that the man of the house can announce to an audience that HE has a HUGE COCK and is willing to prove it Grin

nikki1978 · 26/02/2011 12:10

Eat it

RIZZ0 · 26/02/2011 12:11

Yes true!

So to summarise, your filthy rich neighbour has a huge cock, with which he bothers you at 4am most mornings? Some people would see such a problem as a blessing Grin

kimberlina · 26/02/2011 12:20

I have a cockerel and the hen house that they are shut in overnight does not allow any light in hence he does not start crowing until we wake up and let the hens out (usually 10am + on a weekend). So maybe it's worth having a chat with your neighbours and see if they can alter their hen house slightly.

springbokdoc · 26/02/2011 12:40

YADNBU. My PIL have a neighbour who owns a godforsaken cockerel - I hate it! It also doesn't seem to realise it's frickin' dark outside and starts at 4am. Not once (which I think I could ignore) but over and over again. I have plotted its demise in imaginative and RSPCA unfriendly ways. If I had their house I would definitely protest vocally at their door (was tempted to actually go and knock on their door at the same it crowed - "oh sorry were you asleep? So was I until your cocking bird woke me up". Btw they live in the middle of a very suburban estate, not rural at all.

Vallhala · 26/02/2011 12:41

You're taking the pointing out of the bleeding obvious in very good spirit, Jemima, which makes me :o

The Shetland tale you gave above leads me to wonder if they bought them at a "fete" such as a horse fair out of concern for the animals' wellbeing albeit they are novice horsepeople and whether then they moved the ponies on to a more responsible organisation or individual OR whether they themselves are the type to trade at a horse fair. Very odd. Which (if either) it is would make a difference on how to approach them.

If it's any comfort I'm a big-city girl by birth although I've spent 25 years in the country, and I lived years with a railway running att the bottom of my garden. Freight trains would rumble loudly past pretty much hourly through the night. Noise in the night is something most of us rapidly adjust to and I can honestly say that the only time I or my mother woke was when the loudest, 2am freight train didn't run for some reason and we noticed its absence.

Callisto · 26/02/2011 12:57

Can I just point out that no chicken in the whole of the UK is a 'native'. They all originated from Asia, from the jungle fowl, and were introduced to Britain by the Romans.

carmenetonense · 26/02/2011 13:00

I too am a country bred farmer's daughter. You are definitely NOT being unreasonable if the cockerel is crowing in a residential village area. They are being inconsiderate. Crowing is loud and insistent and if it's near your house I don't think you will easily become immune.

The situation would be the same if the inconsiderate neighbours were lifelong famers. But lifelong farmers, while sometimes having to disruupt the village with late night harvesting or smelly muck spreading, do not usually inconvenience neighbours without good reason. Which is why people tend to put up with it when they do.

Tell the council about it as it's a noise nuisance.

I like keen hobby- farmer types who are eager to learn new skills but dislike the ignorant ones who have no animal sense at all and who cause a great deal of suffering to the animals they play with. You have my sympathy.

faverolles · 26/02/2011 13:10

Google cockerel box, then go and suggest your neighbour makes one.

Big cocks can have very loud voices, and personally, if my chickens lived in a village, I would do everything I could to make sure they couldn't piss anyone off. (as it is, they live in the middle of nowhere)

herbietea · 26/02/2011 13:10

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upahill · 26/02/2011 13:25

This reminds me of a while back when we were on holiday and they asked if we wanted the room with the alarm clock.
We said yes.

The alarm clock turned out to be the church clock right across from our bedroom which started chining at 5.00am every morning with constant bell rings at 6.00am.

It still makes me laugh at how we fell into that one!!

carmenetonense · 26/02/2011 13:47

duchesse - EVERYONE in your village has a cockerel? Really? What on earth for?

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