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Original poster

To be sick of being woken up at 5am by neighbours cockrells!!!

33 replies

123andaway · 17/03/2009 12:11

The man next door but one has recently aquired a large coop with about 10 chickens, and 2 cockrells.

We live in victorian terrace houses, with a longish, thin garden, in the middle of town.

The chickens well cared for, and wouldn't be a problem, except for the racket the cockrells are making at 5am.

AIBU to think that keeping cockrells in the middle of town is a really STUPID idea.

OP posts:
LastOrders · 17/03/2009 15:36

I wasn't being serious!!

smee · 17/03/2009 19:55

lol LO - though actually those thoughts crossed my thoughts when I had to live near them too..

bramblebooks · 17/03/2009 20:25

I get enough noise from one of my hens when she lays - she needs to tell the world! I would definitely not keep cockerels in a built up area - madness!
My hen doesn't shout if she lays whilst still cooped up, fortunately, so I just don't open the door until after 8.

Original poster
123andaway · 18/03/2009 07:33

Actually slept through it this morning by shutting all the doors in the house. The chickens are in the back garden and I sleep at the front. The only problem is there's 2 closed doors between me and the kids, which isn't ideal, although the youngest is 6 so they are not babies.

I was out the back sorting out the bins this morning, and the noise in the back garden is deafening - I don't know what possessed him! Even if I don't complain someone else is going to.

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morningpaper · 18/03/2009 07:42

I thought that lots of victorian terraces had leases that prohibited the keeping of livestock? It could be worth checking?

Eve4Walle · 18/03/2009 08:15

We have chickens, but out of respect for our neighbours, we don't keep Cocks.

Go round and speak to him fisrt, he may be very happy to accommodate your concerns. If you get nowhere this way, then approach the council.

duchesse · 18/03/2009 11:20

My friend used to live in a house that had an established right for railway workers replacing bits of track to come in and use the loo. I don't think it was all that enforceable by the 1990s. Not sure whether the chicken by laws would be either, unless they caused H&S issues (noise pollution or rats for example).

HangingOnTheTrubliphone · 18/03/2009 11:26

Think there are by-laws preventing you from keeping cockerells in most built-up areas.

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