FUCKING COCKERELS!!!!

[fowlmurderinmind]

I'm so pissed off!!! I'm camping, have been here for a week. Unfortunately the site doesn't quieten down till 12-1am so I've not been getting to sleep till then. I sleep with an eye mask and decent earplugs. But, I wake when it gets light (so 5am-ish). At home I can usually get back to sleep. But here, there's a fucking cockerel that's cock-doodle-fucking-doo-ing so I cannot get back to sleep, no matter how hard I try. I'm knackered!!!!
We're leaving today, but we're going to another site that I've realised has a little farm and fresh eggs so will also have a FUCKING COCKEREL!!!!!

I know it's nature and I should appreciate it but I just want to go back to sleep!

I live in North London and every, bloody morning it's the crows!
They sound like they're having a domestic!

I used to woken by a cockerel every morning. I lived in Lewisham

Oh the joys of the countryside ( or Lewisham!). Noisy buggers aren’t they? On a positive note maybe your next site won’t have one since they’re not necessary for the whole egg situation to happen.... just the hens.

I live on a London suburb where it's the in thing to keep chickens, but cockerels are banned, thank god!

I'd pick a cockerel all day long over the bastard seagulls that live near me

Of course you're right, spirited, what are the chances...???

Mermaid seagulls are indeed bastards!

Also camping at the moment and there are 4 dogs having a bark-off at the moment.

I think people often underestimate how noisy the countryside is.

I once stayed on a campsite where people were complaining because the farmer was out on his combine harvester till gone 10 at night, and they couldn't get their kids to sleep. They thought he should stop at a reasonable hour, like 7 or something. Twats.

I lived in Singapore for three years, 1969-1972, before it was the size it is now, a different place altogether. I'd never heard a dawn chorus like those sodding mynah birds sang us every single fucking morning, at the same bloody time Singapore being almost on the equator.

We recorded them one morning, and played it back to them as soon as they started the following morning. They shut up for a few minutes, then they started again. How I hated those pestilential mynah birds - starlings with attitude.

Try having a wild peacock that sleeps in your garden!

Now that is annoying.

We have jackdaws on our chimney, which is above our bed. Grrrrrrrrrrr. We also have a lovely mock orange outside our bedroom window. I swear blue tits have turbo charged lungs. TWEET! so at 5 we have jackdaw crisis, TWEET, and flyingboy who is getting up to go to work and is incapable of doing anything quietly including shutting the sodding front door (virtualy glares at flyingboy ).

I think it worse though when on holiday so you are allowed to want to commit cockerelacide. What gets my goat is campsites that say they have a quiet policy after 10.30 pm and then do nothing to enforce that. Two weeks ago we had every person's precious bundles of joy screaming their heads off playing footie at 11.30 pm near tents while parents just ignored them. Seethe seethe.

Seagulls here too mermaid! Also a noisy badger dispute in our miniscule garden at half past silly o'clock

I'd pick a cockerel all day long over the bastard seagulls that live near me

Yep, this year has been awful; all day (and night) every day. Not long until they all bugger off though!

We are self catering on a farm with three other cottages. Last night the people next door came back at midnight, shining their torches everywhere and talking loudly.

I find the whole “why have cockerels... you don’t need them for eggs” argument against them so short sighted. No you don’t need them for eggs... but you do need them for chickens!.... would you rather that the whole poultry line ended? Or lived in cages somewhere far from you? 🙄

Feisty - I've just spent 12 years in Singapore and can confirm that the bastard mynah birds are still at it - 6am like fricking clockwork A/C does help but doesn't eliminate the noise completely.

I think it's a nice noise. I'd much rather listen to any sort of "natural/animally" kind of noise than revving motorbikes, people shouting or other people's music.

I keep turkeys but the neighbours haven't complained yet.

I live in a suburb of mostly small Victorian terraces and a few blocks of flats. Nearby there are not one but two selfish buggers who have cockerels - it is not a rural area. The two compete with each other, crowing every few minutes all day long from 4am.

I've mostly learned to tune it out, but I couldn't have windows open during the heatwave or DS2 would be awake at 4am - "Mummy it's morning, the chickens are awake!" We have to bake alive in our beds instead. ARGH!

Oh god yes we have seagulls as well as the competing cockerels... They are worse actually. Bastards.

Try having a wild peacock that sleeps in your garden!

We had peacocks that roamed the ground of my uni campus (now long gone, sadly). It was common to be woken by one screeching outside your room. Or having to apologise for being late to seminars because 'There was a peacock in the doorway'

No help with your sleepless nights, OP, but this thread did remind me of the old Barry Cryer joke about the chap driving down a rural road when a cockerel runs out in front of him and he hits it. He goes up to the farmhouse and says to the farmer, "I'm terribly sorry, I've killed your cockerel and I'd like to replace him". The farmer replies, "please yourself, the hens are round the back".