A cockerel? In a council estate? Enlighten me.

[spybear]

There are a few gardens in the row that backs onto my garden. A month ago a famil moved into one of the houses.

And they have a Cockerel, no chickens, just a cockerel.

And what do cockerels do? Yep thats right...
Cock-a-doodle-do

5am

DD3(2yr) said to me this morning, "cock-a-doodle-do wake me up"

I think i will have to go to the council to complain.

Why would they keep a single cockerel? Why?

pet?

Have them here too.

Although we are in the country but quite a residential area.

My neighbour lets it roost overnight in the trees at the back of my garden. Sometimes it starts at 1am!

I feel your pain.

hello guys

Why not ask them first if they would mind sorting it out.

I have hens and used to have a cockeral. When it started crowing one of the neighbour's complained so I cut its head off. And we live in a village where I'm allowed to keep cockerals but I agreed with them that it wasn't nice to be woken up that early. Not that I ever heard it.

You do not need planning permission for a cockeral. You can keep one as long as your deeds don't say otherwise. I suspect a council prop may be different.

You can complain to environmental health but a cockeral is unlikely to be loud enough and sustained enough to constitute a nusiance.

stripey.........you cut its head off???

'A neighbour complained so I cut its head off'? The neighbour or the cockerel?

Off with its head then...

I have no idea why you would want one, but you certainly dont need planning permission to keep one lol!

The cockeral not the neighbour.

You can't rehome them, there are far too many unwanted cockerals and the only thing you can do is cull them. It was one I'd hatched from an egg so not like I bought it and then cut its head off.

Actually my neighbour's dog barks a lot - maybe I should offer to cut the dog's head off as well.

at "so I cut its head off". They're well hard in the country, you know. They don't bother with ASBOs in the country.

sorry people. That was my son, being funny

Stripey can you go sort out my neighbours cockerel?

stripey - my neighbour's a complete pain in the neck. Anything you can do to help?

Sorry but I think YABU. There are far worse antisocial noises/behaviours, nuisances, pollutants etc. in the city.

Sapell you have clearly never had a cockerel waking you up constantly its not just 1 cock a doddle do they go for hours.

Well, I love chickens (have eight) and I wouldn't want a farking cockerel yelling its head off at all hours. I'd complain to the council.

Actually I have lived near a cockerel, but it honestly didn't bother me.

Thankfully this was only a problem I ever experienced backpacking, but I would be MIGHTILY pissed off if a neighbour got one. If you're a light sleeper like me they can a nightmare. Yes there are worse antisocial things going on, but if something is loud enough to keep you awake / wake you up at an ungodly hour, then it IS noise pollution, COMPLAIN!!!!!!
Oh, so YANBU!

There was a recent case about townies moving into a rural area where chickens and cockerels had been kept on village allotments for a long time, and the townies were objecting to the noise because they weren't used to that. If that doesn't apply in this case, then YANBU.

Cockerels, like other birds, react to the very first light of dawn. Kept cockerels can be fooled by keeping them in the dark. It's a simple solution but requires owners to shut them in somewhere dark before bedtime, and let them out at breakfast time. It isn't difficult, except some people either don't know that or can't be bothered.

If appropriate, call your environmental health department. There is a difference between the gentle and beautiful twittering of birds and the raucous proclamations of a cockerel.

Get a fox?