AIBU to think a rooster is an unsuitable animal to keep in suburbia?

[OuchBollocks]

I live in a new-ish housing development and as such, the gardens aren't massive and all back onto one another. One of my neighbours has gone and got a bloody rooster!! DH and I have heard the bloody thing crowing all day, it's Day 1 and it's already making me feel murderous AIBU to think roosters are for the countryside?

[HannahMontannaBeachTowel]

I hate the sound of roosters. When I was pregnant with DD my school had a rooster so the sound reminds me of hideous morning sickness and makes me gag 🤢

[GladAllOver]

If the developers are still on site, get in to the office and complain.
Wot she said ^

[WowWowDouble]

I found my Nieghbours chickens really irritating so goodness know what I'd have thought if they got a cockerel.

I'd complain to them and if that didn't work I'd complain to environmental health.

[gabsdot]

We live in suburbia and we have chickens. We usually buy them when they are adult and obviously only get females but a few years ago we bought 5 chicks and 2 of them turned out to be roosters. They were so noisy. Thankfully we were able to send them to a farm pretty quickly.
It's VU to have noisy animals

[RB68]

Wouldn't have bothered me it being a teenager I would have handed her a large pan and said heres something to catch it in add water and boil.

[LemonBreeland]

I have kept chickens for years, bur would never have a cockerel. I don't want my neighbours to hate me.

I would report them to the council.

[honeysucklejasmine]

If the developers are still on site, get in to the office and complain.

[colourdilemma]

No way should they have a rooster. Totally antisocial. Complain to whoever will listen.

[SillyMoomin]

Council and environmental noise dept

[ClopySow]

Complain.

[OuchBollocks]

I am exceedingly sad to report that the fucker has returned home and has been crowing since at least 5am

[Saladd0dger]

I feel for you op. We had a cockerel a couple months ago in a neighbours garden. The street kept complaining so the housing association made the owners get rid of it. No more 3.30am wake up calls. Heaven

[HotelEuphoria]

Please do complain. Seriously I live in surburbia and my neighbour (with a long garden) keeps chickens at the top of the garden which happens to be next to our fence with our house wall just three feet beyond. The chickens I can cope with, especially these rare breed ones he currently has as they are not too noisy and don't start early or finish late. The clucking is intermittent.

A couple of years ago he had a cockerel. Seriously those people who say they like a cockerel in a morning crowing haven't had one next door. It is horrendous, they start crowing when it is still dark and don't stop all day. You probably get a few of hours respite between 10pm and 3am, even in the depths of winter. The noise can penetrate triple glazing.

It is tortuous. I think other neighbours complained because the poor old cockerel lasted about four months, I like to think it was given to a farmer and lives happily in the country now.

[thecapitalsunited]

Even if you have something in your deeds the Allotment Act 1950 contains provisions to allow any one to keep chickens and rabbits in a garden. Was at a time of rationing so made sense but it's still on the satire books.

I know it's called the Allotment Act but the portion talking about chickens refers to all land not just allotments. There's probably not a lot you can do about the rooster unless you go through the noise nuisance people at the council.

[WatchingFromTheWings]

Complain to the council. Alot of areas don't allow it. I once had a neighbour with one that started making noise at 5am on the dot. Woke me every day and I lived about 6 doors away. Must have been awfully those immediately next door! It dissapeared after 3 months. Found out someone complained it wasn't me and council made him get rid thank god!.

[ClopySow]

Maybe one of the other neighbours got to it.

[silkpyjamasallday]

I imagine a cat or dog or fox will solve your problem for you now OP, certainly before the owners can find him. I would say go round after it's been a while and ask them not to get another, but then it will look like you assassinated the rooster unfortunately.

[Justhadmyhaircut]

You need a disguise op. .
You need to find the fucker before they do. . .
Suggestions for the disguise : tweed plus fours, jacket and hat. . . And a bag for the noisey feathery fuckwit. .

[OuchBollocks]

ROOSTER UPDATE!!

My next door neighbours' teenage daughter has just been sent round to ask to check our garden cos the fucker has ESCAPED! There is a rooster running loose through Home Counties suburbia.

On a side note it was a cunning plan to send the teenager. If the adults had come I could have complained bitterly about the bird.

[caffeinestream]

Lots of places won't allow it - best check with the council.

[Salmotrutta]

My great grandparents had a cockerel (not a rooster because they weren't American) and apparently it was a right Nasty beggar that used to fly at people and attack them.
Then one day it flew at great grandad and tried to attack him so he grabbed it and wrung its neck.
Great granny plucked it and used it to make stock by all accounts.

[sall74]

My friend has an arsehole neighbour who keeps 5, yes 5 cockerels!

They're as far away from his own house as it's possible for him to put them, at the far end of a 150ft long L shaped garden but right next to other peoples adjacent houses and gardens.

They're in separate enclosures but all right next to each other, so they're constantly competing with each other, from 3.30 am to gone 10pm there literally is never more than 30 seconds peace and quiet before one of them screeches and sets the others off.

I honestly don't know how or why the neighbours put up with it.

[JustArandomUser]

Leave some leftovers out to encourage foxes into the area?

[Aquamarine1029]

I would be shocked if this is allowed in your development. Having a rooster is totally unreasonable. I have backyard chickens but they are hens. A rooster next door would be a nightmare.

[MimsyFluff]

We have a large garden as do our neighbours and I don't have chickens for this reason. Pisses me off hearing dogs barking including mine never mind a rooster