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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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chickbean · 27/02/2011 09:40

Thread hijack! I was thinking of getting some chickens (or rather taking over some of my dad's when he downsizes from his smallholding). I wouldn't have a cockerel but I do live in a town. Have moved here (Harrogate) from Cambridge where anyone who had a big enough garden seemed to have an Eglu at the bottom of it, so I had assumed that it wouldn't annoy people. What do you think? Tbh I probably already annoy the neighbours with my noisy children Blush

bronze · 27/02/2011 10:25

Plannine permission? Is it made of brick? Or excessivly high?

BlackBag · 27/02/2011 10:35

YANBU our neighbours are busy turning a little piece of Cornish countryside into a Birmingham Farm.

Despite having a couple of acres the hens are right up against the fence by our house. After a week we gently tackled them - He insisted that he needed his cock, and that there would n't be a problem with rats because he'd seen one once and shot at it with an air pistol and never seen it again. Hmm

The feathered cock stayed for six months, Christmas Day, waking small children at random times, their dogs kicking off at the rats running around ... the owners moved bedrooms to the other side of their house so they could n't hear it.
They trampled down the adjoining fence on the neighbours field repeatedly claiming they had right to roam. Four times we had a dozen bollocks up the drive and in our garden from that and did they come and help, do just sat at home hiding behind their caravan, boat and crappy car collections.

We still have the neighbours, the feathered cock disappeared but the rats are a still a problem. We wish they'd just fuck off back to Birmingham and take their scaffolding with them.

BlackBag · 27/02/2011 10:40

Sorry thread take over there but this pretend country living but treating animals like a part time hobby rather then reading up or taking advice, those poor horses. I wish the media would stop filling magazines with country cottages escaping the rat race articles and write about proper pest control.

GentleOtter · 27/02/2011 10:56

It is ironic. Escape the rat race only to create a new one.

PonceyMcPonce · 27/02/2011 11:13

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tinkertitonk · 27/02/2011 12:02

I'm glad the spelling's been sorted out.

I spent my teenage years next to a church whose clock would sound the hours, and the quarters, throughout the night. From day 2 I never noticed it. Sometimes things worry you only as much as you let them.

fruitshootsandheaves · 28/02/2011 22:16

Did he just catch that fruitshoot or just retrieve when it was shot ?

caught it, killed it, walked back home along the pavement with it! Blush

plupedantic · 28/02/2011 23:08

Let's hope the neighbours don't get any more. I lived next door to a farm where the young cocks woke up in the dark and the quiet, and decided to get their word in first. The older cocks couldn't let that pass, so the whole lot crowed for f-ing ages. Really Big Swinging Dick behaviour, and made worse by the feral chickens nearby, who had no farming "duties" and just pissed about all day while a mad old bat fed them. Grrr.

ilovemyhens · 28/02/2011 23:12

Perhaps you could ask the neighbours to shut the cockerel in its roosting area and block out any light. I have to do this with my hens or they get up at 5am in the summer and make a hell of a racket.

bigbeagleeyes · 01/03/2011 01:05

I live in the country Jemina, and I mean serious country (Scottish Highlands). but if I got woken every morning by a cockeral, I'd say something to neighbours.
F**k, when the cuckoo arrives, and it won't be long now, I may need to invest in a gun.

MrsKwazii · 01/03/2011 02:09

Echoing other posters, get onto your local env health. Noise from cockerels has become an increasing problem in the last few years due to the increasing popularity of keeping them in residential gardens. We've had a few articles about it in our local council magazine.

They should be considerate neighbours and trying to keep the noise down as much as possible. Env health will help them to mitigate the noise, but if it comes to it may order them not to keep the cock anymore. Fnarrr.

MrsKwazii · 01/03/2011 02:10

Just for fun try to say the word cock as much as you can when you get in touch with env health - it'll make their day Grin

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