[Roxy]

Yes, they would appreciate them in a box!!  Just picturing you shouting to the neighbours that there are some eggs on the way .....and throwing them over the fence

[daniellestocks]

Yes, they would appreciate them in a box!!  Just picturing you shouting to the neighbours that there are some eggs on the way .....and throwing them over the fence

thats made me chuckle 

[plumseverywhere]

   wait till I start giving them tomato's - with a slingshot.

[Sharondp]

We've all got chooks here so no complaints!

[sokel]

We have 3 Cockerels at the moment , we do live rural but do have neighbours across the field where our birds roam.
We have had no complaints from them although we did get a complaint from a delivery driver because one of them wouldn't let him back into his van because his hens where there. We where not at home and apparently it took him 30 minutes to get out of the garden onto the yard where the van was   

[Stereo]

We cure our aggressive ones by taking them for walks. Tuck them under your arm and go for a stroll and a chat. They will mumble away and I think they actually enjoy it.

I actually love the sound of our cockerels in nearby fields. Our Copper Blacks have a particular cockadoodle which carries hauntingly across the valley.

[lord flynn]

no, never had a complaint so lucky in that respect. Where we were we did have neighbours round about, although not that close. The poultry were kept in a field by the river-the tall banks around the field acted like a natural ampitheatre lol, even though covered by trees and the sound really travelled. The Scots Grey boy is pretty big and loud but very melodic, a proper cockadoodledoo. The aruacana boy isn't so tuneful but doesn't crow alot, neither crow through the night. They have a 'crow off' every morning for about 20 mins (in different pens) and then they are fine. We have no neighbours now so no worries-I used to make sure I kept the boys in until 9am on weekends there though, thought that was only fair.

All of the Marsh Dairy cockerels sounded like a cat being trodden on and crowed through the night-not fun for anyone. Bear in mind that its really not much of a problem in the winter, in the summer they crow pretty early, as soon as they hear birds singing.

[Clansman]

Bit of a thread revival here? 

I live in a village with neighbours all around so couldn't keep any outside.

I am planning however to breed Scots Greys next year so I currently have cockerels living inside a large fish tank in my conservatory 

With all the doors and windows closed you can just hear them outside and no more, it sounds like the crowing is coming from about a mile away, just audible in the garden but even when i've been talking to neighbours over the fence they never heard it.

Inside however its a different story! 

Mine will crow at first light but very rarely after that.

However if I make a noise through the night even if its pitch dark they will start crowing too.

[lord flynn]

a zombie thread! didn't realise lol.

[devonlad]

depends on the neighbours and depends on the cockerel. our only excursion into having one followed us hatching some bought in fertilised eggs and keeping one of the resultant boys as he was a grand looking welsummer. the few months we had him were not a great experience as he was a randy so and so and left our poor girls threadbare- he also crowed at 4 in the morning regardless of whether it was light or dark. Never mind the neighbours, if the fox hadn't taken him I would have. I love my chickens, but not at 4 in the morning I don't. I have read that disputes over a noisy cockerel are not uncommon. i'd probably ask the neighbours first and then decide, but then i'm a sucker for an easy life.

[chrismahon]

We've been served with two noise nuisance notices. The first one went to the sound monitoring stage and then was dropped. The second fell at the first hurdle of a council visit. What is very annoying is Staffordshire Environmental Health serve the notice, give you a leaflet with some silly advice on how to stop cockerels crowing, and then say absolutely nothing. We didn't know which cockerel on which plot of land was the problem, so we couldn't do anything about it anyway. They don't tell you the case is dropped and won't answer the emails. You only find out when you hear nothing else. The Staffordshire Environmental Health Department creates work for themselves. If they were up-front in the first place I'm sure most issues would be resolved quickly, but instead they play secretively and waste their own time.


Of course the real problem was the neighbours. Going straight to the Council instead of dealing with us directly. They created work for themselves as well as they have to keep 6 weeks of diary sheets and submit them first.


Pity they don't apply the same rules in England as they do in France. In land designated urban cockerels are not permitted if anyone objects. In land designated rural they are permitted, no matter how loud, how many or when. So townies moving into the countryside cannot impose their values on the small farmers. In the countryside you get tractors, cattle, cockerels and that's the way it is. So in a little village here you can have cockerels if you want. Ours have been 'singing' since 5.30am -lovely it is as well. There are 10 in total.

[ellied]

I only have one cockerel and he crows at dawn whether it's 3am or 9am, and occasionally he'll start up during the day too, I think he gets carried away when the hens are in full post-laying cluckathon 

I only have one immediate neighbour and fortunately they've been very good about it so far, they get eggs too 

The other side it's half a mile to the village and they have a cockerel there which I can hear occasionally but obviously it doesn't bother me so mine presumably doesn't bother them.. Given we are all beside a main A road and under Leuchars flight path (for now anyway) I don't think noise nuisance from JV would be considered much to bear. 

As someone else said above, the girls post laying announcements are way noisier and longer term when they're going strong.  Not this time of year tho, so everyone is on a break.

[Victorian Farmer]

The council have served a abatment notice on me in June .Iv said I will go to court and if I win I will have more .The dark days are ok its spring time that folk moan.

[MAK]

I think that on a similar thread that I had calculated that I lost the equivalent to a nights sleep each week when our cockeral lived in our large barn that the house sits on the side of. Sound just reverberated around the barn and through into our bedroom.
These days I am happy to help those with a noisy cockerel and take them off their hands. I have 4 in the freezer and I now make a very good coq au vin. A large 2-3 year old coq made ready for the pot is worth a fortune here. 

[Womble]

I have a solution.  If your neighbours complain about your cockerel, let me know and I'll sell you a peacock or two.  I can guarantee that's the last time they'll complain about the cockerel!!