Any advice please - neighbour's cockerel driving me up the wall

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I am utterly ignorant about chickens and could really do with some pointers. Really hope I don't drop a clanger like I did in the doghouse 4 years ago and have never really recovered

We live in a rural area, in a small row of local authority housing. Neighbours have chickens (fresh eggs - lovely) and a cockerel that announces his presence from dawn til dusk. It's keeping us all up (2 DCs under 3).

As it's a rural area do I just need to suck it up? We have cows, horses and sheep in neighbouring fields and lots of tractors trundling up and down the road, so lots of noise every day, but it's the incessant repetitiveness that is driving me round the bend.

Any advice please?

Hi keep on with it. I wrote my neighbour a letter which she ignored. Then I did the records and had recording equipment for 4 days in my house it was proven to be a statutory nuisance and she was issued with a noise abatement order and cockerel is gone. Hurray@ But I still feel angry she put me through 3 months of tell. I bought this house for 320k after my partner died of cancer and I thought I was going mad. Now it's gone I realise just how awful it was as I had put up with it for so long. She is a selfish arrogant bitch. Other neighbours commented but did nothing. Don't give in it is not acceptable. Good luck .

Sorry but you moved to the countryside you have to expect countryside noises including cockerels!

Hi I did not move to the countryside I have always lived in villages. It is not acceptable to have a cockerel in your next door garden clearly as was assessed to be a statutory nuisance and action taken accordingly

You are absolutely correct. It is the height of selfishness and inhumanity to subject neighbors to such a disruptive stressor without any consideration for their potential sensitivities to it. I am at the end of my rope with a neighbor who's roosters not only awaken me at an ungodly hour but keep me from operating my home based business at an efficient level.

You are one inhumane sob

I know how you feel, all through lockdown my neighbour had up to 29 cockerel on a piece of scrap land (no house just land at the side of an old railway) 20 feet from my door. It made me ill. From 3am until 9-10pm cockerels, guinea fowl and geese were at it. There must be 50 or so birds of various descriptions on this land. Sadly the family owning the land do not live near it and they are not the type to be 'argued' with specially if you are a single woman, yes I've had the veiled threats and the honking horn, revving tyres and party of youth on the land threatening me...which according to the police is low level anti-social behaviour which they can do nothing about... The local EH have been great and an abatement order was eventually produced which initially they ignored. The cockerels disappeared for a while. They were replaced with more guinea fowl and now the cockerel are creeping back in. I have developed an ear infection which makes me slightly deaf but the piercing noise from 17 feet from my door hurts my head when it goes off. I bought a 'fitbit' type watch and this has been a fab indicator of when they actually wake me as it records the pattern and also when the noise makes your blood pressure go through the roof. So yes I know how you feel as these have definitely made me ill and my life in lockdown revolves around these birds.

Omg that sounds like a living hell.

Cannot believe the selfishness of some people just because they want to keep a two legged bird but nowhere near their home!! It does drive you insane and can make you Ill. I know all about that and there is no excuse if it has passed the test of being a statutory nuisance. Iif there has been one abatement notice then this should give weight to another complaint? Alternatively I believe you can start off your own legal action with a solicitor letter under environmental health act apparently much quicker results than council -worth getting half hours legal advice?,

Our cockerel is young and hasn't started crowing yet but they are in their solid enclosed hen house as soon as it gets dusk and come out when we get up, even if they did crow in the hen house it would be muted but I don't think they would as it's very dark in there. Can you suggest that?

Oh gosh sorry, I've just seen this is an 8 year old thread!!