I need advice please chicken people

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Our neighbour has chickens for about a year. No problems bar the escaping and crossing the road, I thought I was hallucinating!

However last week he appears to have acquired a rooster (not sure if that's the right word) and its crowing at 5 am every day. A few of the neighbours have been speaking about it, but we aren't sure what to do. None of us are cock-a-hoop about being woken at 5am for the foreseeable future.

Do anyone of y have roosters? How have your Neighbours taken it??

I have hens but I would never get a cockeral because my neighbours houses are pretty close to my garden. I think cockerals are only really acceptable if you live in the middle of nowhere.

Is your road fairly built up or are you more rural? Are the chickens locked away at night? I always lock my hens in at night because otherwise there are pretty noisy once it starts getting light.

Could he have hatched out eggs (of which a high proportion will be male) and now he has a cockeral that he can't get rid of or is too soft to cull?

Do you know him well enough to have a chat about it?

They are the odd family of our cul de sac if im being honest. The wife never speaks even if I start the conversation, which is a shame because they have twins a little older than ds. And the husband I think is Turkish, won't even look at you if you pass.

We are on the edge of a small rural town. Farm is out the back of my house, we currently have cows ans sheep out there. but the chicken man has houses on all sides. I call it semi rural, town out the front, countryside out the back!

They weren't locked up before they escaped, merely penned In with the wheelie bins. I don't know if he has sorted that out or not.

I don't think it's he's too soft to cull, another neighbour has said that they don't just keep them for eggs, but I don't know if that's true or not.

I was really just wondering if it was acceptable or not for him to keep a cockerel and going by what you say, I don't think you would keep one if you lived here Thereinmadnesslies. Thank you!

Your area sounds much more rural than where I live, but I still wouldn't have a cockerel if I lived there. Is there anything that you could constructively suggest, like locking the bird in at night (in the dark) or moving the coop to the bottom of the garden?

The chickens escaped again last night! It was like something out of benny hill him and some of the other neighbours trying to catch them. My neighbour spoke to him about the cockerel and apparently he didn't know it was a boy when he got it and the farmer up the road has agreed to take it. So this morning should be the last cock a doodle do morning!

Thanks for your advice