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My neighbour's cockerel is broken.

37 replies

UnsuspectedItem · 30/01/2018 09:41

It is constantly crowing. CONSTANTLY.
An early wake up call I could cope with, but it is all day and all night. And loud, my God, so loud. I can hear it clear as day when the window is closed, but when the window is open it's like a foul airhorn.
It's not even my direct neighbours either, it's coming from at least 5 buildings down.

I cannot explain how much I hate this cockerel.

WIBU to hunt it down and kill it?*

*Light hearted. I'm not actually going to murder the neighbours chicken.

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justilou1 · 30/01/2018 09:43

You can catch it in a cage with a mirror.... just saying.... *My neighbours and I might have done this once when there was a roaming bastard rooster going off like a frog in a sock all night.

steppemum · 30/01/2018 09:49

Do you live in abuilt up area? Because they shouldn't have a cockerel if you do.

If you know the house, go and visit. Because if the cockerel is shut up in a chicken house over night, it will still crow, but it should be much less audible. Ask them to shut it in.
Won't stop it crowing all day though.

Hoppinggreen · 30/01/2018 09:50

You could have made this thread title so much more interesting OP

mummymeister · 30/01/2018 09:52

Contrary to popular (towny) beliefs, cockerels crow all day. Mine crow all the time - we have several but I live in the back end of nowhere so no one to hear them but me.

they start crowing really early in the summer - around 3.30am - 4am and go on well past 10pm. just saying - if its getting on your nerves now just wait until July.

MrsPreston11 · 30/01/2018 10:17

Should totally have put "cock" instead of "cockerel" in your title.

And I'd be equally annoyed. That is not a cool animal to keep.

mummymeister · 30/01/2018 10:27

Disagree MrsPreston11 without our cockerels we wouldn't have lovely fluffy chicks to coo over in the Spring. they also protect the flock from foxes as they act as look out. I think they are pretty cool.

Rebeccaslicker · 30/01/2018 10:28

I think they do crow all day, don't they? I've never had one, but I've seen them on farms etc and they never STFU.

Maybe it needs an accident involving a lot of breadcrumbs and some garlic butter....

(Some vegetarian I am Grin)

Coloursthatweremyjoy · 30/01/2018 10:33

It's normal OP. They crow all day and all night...It roughly translates to "I've got the biggest balls in the area. Yes I have. No-one can best me. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!" Ad infinitum.

YANBU if you live in a built up area. Nightmare. YABU if you live next to a farm or very rurally. Welcome to the country. Grin

theunsure · 30/01/2018 10:38

You get used to it!
It's the blinking owls that are doing my head in, there is one that is literally sitting outside my window until about 7am and it is incessant

As others have said they do crow all the time. I only have hens but there are several cockerels in the village. Eventually you just stop hearing it. I'm a massive chicken fan though so I am a bit biased.

BreconBeBuggered · 30/01/2018 10:42

I thought you might be my neighbour, OP. I don't own a cockerel, but somebody else does. This one goes OKKYOOWOOFWOOFAHHHFUCkit, for most of the day. Sounds distinctly broken to me, as if it's compelled to crow throughout daylight hours but the batteries are running down. Housing estate, but the countryside begins about 3 minutes' walk thataway, so complaints might seem a bit peevish.

Original poster
UnsuspectedItem · 30/01/2018 10:52

Do you live in abuilt up area? I live in Saudi Arabia at the moment now, moved here just over a week ago. There don't appear to be any firm Chicken related rules.

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UnsuspectedItem · 30/01/2018 10:54

It roughly translates to "I've got the biggest balls in the area. Yes I have. No-one can best me. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!

So I need to out-balls it? Perhaps by shouting this out of the window in return?

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steppemum · 30/01/2018 11:52

I live in Saudi Arabia

Ha ha that's great, here we are thinking Surrey!

I lived in Saudi as a kid and the biggest issue was being woken at 4 am by the call to prayer, after a week or two each holiday we got used to it and tined it out. Hopefully same applies to the cockere!

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 30/01/2018 11:56

We had to get rid of our Neville, because the neighbours were complaining. 😢

RainbowGlitterFairy · 30/01/2018 12:21

So I need to out-balls it? Perhaps by shouting this out of the window in return?

Yes, that is exactly what you need to do, but whilst dressed as a giant cockerel.

YetAnotherSpartacus · 30/01/2018 12:35

I live in Saudi Arabia at the moment now, moved here just over a week ago. There don't appear to be any firm Chicken related rules

You won't know until you break them. I can see the headlines now ...

Coloursthatweremyjoy · 30/01/2018 12:43

Apparently if you have an aggressive Cockrel you can go in the run, wearing shin pads obviously, then imitate it's side stepping, lunging movements. This will show it that you do indeed have the bigger balls and stop the aggression. Disclaimer, I have never tried this and also think that a baseball helmet and possibly a bat might be beneficial as well.

You could try shouting out of the window but this sounds like It would be against chicken related rules.

Or...get your own Cockrel and make sure it is bigger and better looking than neighbours Cockrel...there's a flaw in that plan somewhere.

TheMaddHugger · 30/01/2018 12:49

They crow all day and all night...It roughly translates to "I've got the biggest balls in the area. Yes I have. No-one can best me. Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough!" Ad infinitum.

Sounds like some teenage boys [men] I know

steppemum · 30/01/2018 12:50

we have 5 chickens.
2 very large
1 medium
2 very small bantams, with silly fluffy hairdos.

One of the small one sis accidentally a cockerel. (we thought we were buying 2 hens)
Yesterday I went to let them out and the cocky little so and so was strutting his stuff roudn and round all puffed up and preening and was havign a go at the large chickens.

He comes up to their knees.

It was very funny

we are hoping we might get one clutch of chicks, and then lose all the males including the Dad. (neighbours have been extrememly patient so far)

TheMaddHugger · 30/01/2018 12:51

Random story time but it does involve a chicken

thebloggess.com/2011/06/21/and-thats-why-you-should-learn-to-pick-your-battles/

YetAnotherSpartacus · 30/01/2018 12:52

we are hoping we might get one clutch of chicks, and then lose all the males including the Dad. (neighbours have been extrememly patient so far)

You might need to buy him a little step stool.

TheMaddHugger · 30/01/2018 12:54

Steppermom, I need a video of that lol

 the cocky little so and so was strutting his stuff roudn and round all puffed up and preening and was havign a go at the large chickens.

He comes up to their knees.
steppemum · 30/01/2018 12:55

You might need to buy him a little step stool.

Grin Grin

the other little one is female, I assume he will be more succesful with her!

Myddognearlyatethedeliveryman · 30/01/2018 13:00

Could you dangle your bare norks out of the window screaching 'nork - a - doodle - do' and pretend you are a rare breed??

steppemum · 30/01/2018 13:01

Madd - that blog is hysetrical, and my garden is missing a 5foot metal chicken.

B&Q were sellign 18" metal chickens last year and I wnated about 3 of them to scatter round the garden. I thought it owuld be funny considering that there are real chickens there as well.

Unfortunately my dh sounds alot like Victor on that blog....

So i got ds to give me a giant metal frog for Christmas (being sodl off in closing down sale) and in the spring he is going to stand on the side of the pond. Dh looks suitabley horrified every time I mention it.