To complain about the cockerel?

[cosmobrown]

We have just moved house and there is a cockerel that seems to wander freely up and down outside our row of 8 houses. However, in the mornings, it starts "cock-a-doodling" at 4.45am down our end of the lane, and continues shouting until around 7am, when it wanders off down to the other end of the houses.
I asked our neighbour who owns it, and she said it belongs to someone down the other end, but it won't stay in their garden (??).
DH doesn't get home from work until midnight, and our dd is autistic and we really suffer if she gets over tired. (Luckily, dd has slept through it so far.)
Any ideas on how to handle this?

Good luck, cosmo - do report back. (Unless the cockerel gets you.)

"cocknapper" HAHAHA

IME there are always a few people who think keeping their animals in is some kind of optional extra. I'm not talking cats but things like cows and horses

But with these people if the rest of the chickens aren't out, there's a possibility they are more than happy for him to wake you not them don't think he's bothering anybody. So just tell them, be nice.

when you go and see them please please please make your opening line 'Id like to complain about your cock (and its straying/waking me up early) and then keep your face completely straight/ignore any possible mention of double entendre

this is a huge opportunity

Dida - LOL!!!!!

So - the story……. Old lady keeps rescued ex-battery hens. The cockerel came with a batch of hens she rescued a few years ago. The cockerel hated being couped up and went berserk and it was quieter when left to roam. Since then (it pisses of several of neighbours apparently - probably up our end of lane) all attempts to catch the bloody thing have failed, it has survived a few fox attacks, and wandered onto the main road nearby and survived that too. By all accounts it is not expected to live much longer anyway, and so everyone is just waiting unit nature takes its course.

One (annoying) person a few houses down from us feeds the damn thing so it nestles for the night up here.

Seems like we just get that pet fox wait it out!!

Hahahaha didactylos

I know someone who had a cockeral thrown into her chicken run, a kind of rural English version of a drive by shooting. Most people will load them off on anyone gullible individuals who will take them.

If he's anything like mine he will survive a fox no problem, we live in South America so could be an eagle or even large cat that had a go at ours, and all's I know is, him and his bald bum are still going strong - and he's a bantam/dwarf too! So wouldn't get your hopes up about the fox!

Hopefully either nature will take it's course or you will learn to sleep through the sound.

Aww the boys get a raw deal. It's virtually impossible to rehome a cockerel so persistent complaints are likely to result in them being culled.

There are things you can do like put them in a cat carrier at night so they can't stretch their neck out to crow in the morning, but maybe not in this instance if he fully free ranges.

You may find you get used to it. I'm in a rural area right near a train track and I used to notice every train, and jump when they sounded the horn (or whatever it's called on a train!) A year on I rarely even notice it.

3:39am he started this morning.