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Neighbour's rooster

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rosesinmygarden · 27/02/2023 20:35

The neighbour's 3 doors up have installed a rooster late last week.

We are in a built up area. It's doing its cockledoodledoo (what feels like) every 30 seconds from daybreak! I'm WFH and it's really loud and really distracting.

AIBU to think this is really selfish of them?

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TitoMojito · 27/02/2023 21:41

Yeah... this happened where I live. Woke me up at the crack of dawn. My DF called the council and a few weeks later they were gone. Whether it was the phone call that did it or something else I don't know, but it was unbearable.

Newstartonwards · 27/02/2023 21:42

Report to environmental health he should be in from 7 am to 7 pm and not making a racket during the day.

bit like a dog barking all day

SirVixofVixHall · 27/02/2023 22:13

CherryHouse · 27/02/2023 21:26

Poor you!!! Years ago my friend had a neighbour cockerel!! It was broken. Instead of waiting for dawn, it started from 3am. We only stayed with her a week and it nearly broke me 🙉

Dawn is three am in the Summertime.
As a pp said though, he will be quiet while it is dark. At the moment he is announcing his presence loudly to deter any other cockerels from coming near his flock, he is asserting himself more because he is new. He will also be alerting the hens to any dangers. He should calm down a bit when he adjusts to his new flock and his new home.
My cockerel is not all that noisy unless something frightens him.

vanillamint · 27/02/2023 22:22

My neighbours chickens died a few weeks before I moved in.
They used my garden as their playing field apparently.

They are getting more next month.
I'm fucking dreading it, it be cruel considering they won't have my garden to play in.

userxx · 27/02/2023 22:32

Confrontayshunme · 27/02/2023 21:31

A friend of ours has a little strait jacket thing that keeps them from stretching their necks to crow. A sort of cock muzzle if you will. 😂

Maybe drop one round?

Oh, the images 😏

Pruneit · 27/02/2023 22:42

Agree with a pp. Environmental Health. They have rules about this sort of thing.

New90mumma · 05/08/2023 05:53

im wondering what you ended up doing? We have the same problem and I have a four month old who is being woken by it. The neighbours told me to “embrace living in the countryside” - (in our semi- that’s nowhere near a farm). It starts crowing at 5am so of course the baby wakes up then (and she’s normally up 2-3 times in the night anyway). then goes throughout the day(which I don’t even mind, it’s the 5am, I can hear it with the windows closed).

IggityZiggity · 05/08/2023 06:13

No! This is ridiculous! Who are the people that said you were being unreasonable?! I am sure if you log the noise and complain to the council you could get the cock removed... No way should you have to put up with that. It will crow from 3/4 am in the summer!

Mollymalone123 · 05/08/2023 06:56

I think environmental health will come out to see for themselves as I’m pretty sure this is why cockerels end up at the rspca waiting to be rehomed ,as idiots like your neighbours think it’s ok to have one in a built up area.i live in a rural big village so it’s expected here.we have chickens ourselves but no way would I inflict a cockerel on my neighbours even though I’m surrounded by countryside.

samsam123 · 05/08/2023 10:39

HolibobsinApril · 27/02/2023 20:41

I had a neighbour with cockerels many moons ago. They woke me up daily at ridiculous o'clock. I begged them to do something as it was breaking me.

These birds used to roam on the village green. Often straying into the road.

One day someone put lots of bird seed on the road. They didn't last long! Poor birds.

what a shit thing to do

ecuse · 05/08/2023 10:54

We also have a neighbour with a cockerel. I always thought they just crowed at dawn. NOPE!

All. Sodding. Day.

It drives me crazy and I cannot believe it has survived years without being eaten by the very many urban foxes in our neighborhood.it is completely inappropriate in London IMO.

No advice just sympathy and TBH although I still find it irritating when I hear it, I will confess that I have started to hear it less over time, I guess my brain tunes it out. So you have some hope. But it is outrageously rude and inappropriate to keep a cockerel in a city.

boboshmobo · 05/08/2023 11:17

So selfish to have a cockerel near other houses ..
They should only be for farms . They are noisy fuckers !

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