Cockerel on housing development - yay or nay?

[Sheeples]

We live on a new build estate. Small gardens, close knit etc. We have neighbours nearby with chickens who can be noisy but generally they are ok - cannot hear them in the house. Clucking generally acceptable noise along with dogs, kids etc.

Neighbour now has a boy chicken who crows in the morning. I think this is a dick move on their part.

AIBU to be irritated that there is a cock on the block?

I’d also be concerned about vermin. A pest controller friend says that where there’s chickens, there’s rats. (I know rats are all around us, but apparently they’re more prevalent where there are chickens. Also compost heaps and decking.)

When we first moved here (busy street in town), there was one a few doors away. It woke me up every morning between 3-4am. I hated it.

We live on a housing estate, albeit in a village. There are at least 5 or 6 cockerels in various houses around us. You honestly get used to it and I barely notice them.

I'd expect that in the country tbh

Most councils don’t allow backyard cockerels.

Even on our allotments we are not allowed them and they are reported if found due to nuisance noise and environmental health come out and ban them for the noise.

Foxes will help to control the mice and rats. And the chickens if they haven't got very, very strong enclosures.

I had this years ago. Neighbour had a cockerel in a built up area. Another neighbour reported it and they were made to get rid of it. Woke the whole street up in the early hours!

Chickens, yes. Cockerel, no.

I used to live on a little estate in an inner city and there was some sort of community vegetable garden round the corner, and they had some chickens too. All fine. Then, inexplicably, they got a cockerel and I swear to god the noise nearly started an early hours of the morning riot. It woke basically the whole estate up at 3-4am every morning for about a week and then people started shouting at it and then people started shouting at THEM for making more noise and then a man who had been trying to get his baby to sleep basically went round and told the bloke who ran the community veg place that he would ring the bird’s neck if it stayed and there was a big row.

We never heard it again after that so we assumed he either did ring its neck or Foghorn Leghorn was found a more suitable home. I hope the latter.

I live on a new build estate and we are not allowed livestock. I would call the council

We used to live in the country and had roosters. They crowed at any hour of the day or night. I wouldn't dream of having one in a housing estate.

It's possible that it's from a clutch of eggs that they hatched, and they might plan to keep it. But if I were you I'd contact the council about it.

I sometimes feel like the only person in the world who likes cockerels. I love lying in bed hearing them cockling and doodling and knowing that I can roll over and go back to sleep. Our neighbour had one for a while and it was great but someone complained and it had to go

My anger is reserved for the inconsiderate w*nkers that let huge noisy fireworks on late at night for so far as I can tell no good reason. I don't want to feel the explosion and think it's a flipping bomb... but natural bird noises are OK.

New build estates normally come with restrictive covenants. Usually the keeping of livestock is forbidden.

Unless your neighbour has hens I would shop them. Otherwise GTFO.

So do they just crow at sunrise ? Or do they crow at sunrise and for a certain amount of time after ? Or do they just start at sunrise and do it all through the day?

Sorry I don’t know that much about cocks

Get some windchimes in retaliation

YANBU

I had elderly friends whose lives were made a misery by this and very noisy children

They had to move from their home of 30+ years because of it

No way

This! ^^!
Theres always rats and vermin where there’s fowls.
Report to your local Council Environmental Health.

YANBU, but they certainly are. I honestly can’t decide if some people were raised stupid or if they genuinely do not give a fuck.

I used to live near some allotments - there before the houses were - and could sometimes hear the cockerel on mornings. It never bothered me, but I think I'm most deeply asleep at that time on a morning.

They are selfish cunts. It’s totally unacceptable.

They crow before sunrise! I’m currently on holiday and there is a cockerel next door which starts crowing when it’s still fairly dark outside, think it was 4:30am the other night.

OP, just talk to them. I used to have a cockerel (I live in a 130yo house in a village). It was disturbing the neighbours which was odd as I never heard it and it was closer to me than them. But i don’t want my neighbours been upset so I chopped its head off that afternoon.

New estate so probably there is some 3rd party looking after/managing by the entire estate? we had that.
Anyway, long story short in our paperwork there was restrictive covenant stating that keeping chickens was prohibited.

That made me laugh. I know you are being tongue in cheek........... Or are you?

I had this a few years ago. ex-DH caught the bugger & it was plucked, drawn & in our freezer before 06.00
And it was very tasty.

Not being tongue in cheek at all. What else did you think I was going to do with it? 😁. The vets won’t put them to sleep!