Effing chickens in Effing London suburbia FFS!

[Henrysmycat]

One of those WWYD...
We live in a naice part of the London suburbia/Surrey border, in a lovely house with decent garden where the previous garden neighbours we share a fence at the bottom of both our gardens, had a lovely thick tallish bushy hedge for absolute privacy.
It was a dream!!!

Those neighbours left and the new ones moved in. First, the husband thinks he's a bit of a gardener and hack the bush to 'shapes'! It was a cluster of fucking disasters. Then they decided to go all "the Good life" (ironic eh?) and got some chickens.

Today, I woke up to see all the hedges completely gone, being able to see right thru their bathroom and lo and behold, the aforementioned chicken coop moved right on our boundary.
I know, there is fuckall I can do but the coop is visible about half a meter on top of the fence and that effing rooster is a loud mofo.
How can I disguise it? Waiting for plants to grow and do my own hedge is a long term solution and I am not going to be alive to see it. Any other ideas?
PS. If I steal a cook the rooster are any MNers willing to come and eat him as I am veggie myself?
Any ideas except moving to the outer Hebrides?

muffinbluffer yeh they're definitely noisy, I was never a countryside dweller but I guess people there would be as used to it as I am to the traffic on the A1. Having said that give me peacocks and donkeys any day over my neighbours

1. Don't use the word "effing", it makes you sound like a dick. Say "fucking" if that's what you mean.

LOLZ at the objection to "effing" whilst "mofo" gets a pass. 😂

To a pp who says hens are happier with a cockerel, they are not. They get chased, held down, shagged and pushed away frequently without do much as a thankyou. If their spurs are long they can gouge slices out of the hens backs. My current hens have no cockerel after having one and they are much happier now, laying more, fuller feathered.

And to the other pp who said about bird flu - defra have lifted all restrictions.

You can call environmental health re the cockerel though. Would you feel comfortable speaking to the neighbours about him first though? The end result of this will be getting rid...our cockerels in the past have started crowing at 3am in mid summer. We have no neighbours though and the hen house is a long way from our house!

SirVixofVixHall. We used to have three peafowl. One cock and two hens. The people in the nearest village two miles away could hear him! We could too when sat in the pub in said village!
He also attacked visitors one of the females loved coming in and drinking from the loo ( the upstairs one not the downstairs!) and would leave a trail of squishy shit all over the house and landing. The cats and my kids friends were terrified of them. And when we had a BBQ, it was like being Phineus with the harpies!

Yy to patchouli cockerels can be vicious creatures both to their flock and humans.

Environmental health for the noise I think. Laurel or a fence for the coop. They are quite cute though, hens in general. They do some great comedic scratching. The mites are grim though and they also attract rats.

A Cockerel is a male hen under one year old. Over a year, they are called Roosters.

I would love to have chooks but a cockerel/rooster is always going to risk pissing of the neighbours.
This article (for chicken owners) has some good points about complaints for the noise and checking with the local council about any bylaws.

OK, this one's for Sherlock...

OP, YANBU to complain about an effing rooster

I miss my chickens and would be delighted if our neighbours got some, but I would draw the line at a cockerel! Absolutely no need. Hens can make enough noise on their own

Anyone who keeps a cockerel in an urban residential area is a cunt. There is no excuse.