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Apologies for thread title but I couldn't come up with anything that didn't sound bad.
Neighbours in big house c. 30 metres away have hens. No problem, it's something we've considered ourselves.
BUT. They also have a cock.
You can probably guess the rest. This fella has no sense of time and will suddenly start crowing at any hour of the day or night. Usually night. Once he gets into the swing of it he starts to enjoy it and it can go on for quite a time.
I sleep lightly. The missis (who sleeps like the proverbial log) is getting peed off with it. We'd let it pass in the hopes that the feathered one will eventually lose his voice or pop his clogs.
But there's now an issue with our 16yr old son who is approaching crucial exams next week. He sleeps like a dead man but it's even getting through to him.
The plan is to have a quiet word with the neighbours, who are OK types, but I'm not sure what they'll be able to do short of getting rid of the thing. If things get sticky, what's the score from a legal/community perspective?
I was under the impression that you don't actually need a cock these days? But enough about my sex life, badum tish etc.
Neighbours in big house c. 30 metres away have hens. No problem, it's something we've considered ourselves.
BUT. They also have a cock.
You can probably guess the rest. This fella has no sense of time and will suddenly start crowing at any hour of the day or night. Usually night. Once he gets into the swing of it he starts to enjoy it and it can go on for quite a time.
I sleep lightly. The missis (who sleeps like the proverbial log) is getting peed off with it. We'd let it pass in the hopes that the feathered one will eventually lose his voice or pop his clogs.
But there's now an issue with our 16yr old son who is approaching crucial exams next week. He sleeps like a dead man but it's even getting through to him.
The plan is to have a quiet word with the neighbours, who are OK types, but I'm not sure what they'll be able to do short of getting rid of the thing. If things get sticky, what's the score from a legal/community perspective?
I was under the impression that you don't actually need a cock these days? But enough about my sex life, badum tish etc.
Not your problem what they need to do to shut it up, it's theirs. They may not see it that way of course, in which case they will need some encouragement. Are you actually in a rural area, where such noise might be expected?
Seems liekly that they will already know aboiut the problem, but until you say something they will just say "well, no-one's complained yet"
Seems liekly that they will already know aboiut the problem, but until you say something they will just say "well, no-one's complained yet"
singlecoil said:
Are you actually in a rural area, where such noise might be expected?
We're on the outskirts of a town up an unadopted dead-end road. The 'rooster' lives in the big grange house at the end of the road and there are four other houses at this end of that road (including ours). Quiet, but not not what I'd call rural. As said, they may well not realise anyone's bothered by it.
The simplest way to reduce the crowing is to put the roster in a low cage where it can stand up, but not extend its neck to crow.
Blacking out the coop entirely will also help, but may not if it's crowing all night anyway. Could a street light or something be setting it off?
Worth keeping on good terms with them - free eggs.
If none of this helps, then contact the local council's environmental health department, just as you would for a continually barking dog or rowdy parties.
The simplest way to reduce the crowing is to put the roster in a low cage where it can stand up, but not extend its neck to crow.
Blacking out the coop entirely will also help, but may not if it's crowing all night anyway. Could a street light or something be setting it off?
Worth keeping on good terms with them - free eggs.
If none of this helps, then contact the local council's environmental health department, just as you would for a continually barking dog or rowdy parties.
you can always call the local council, pest control / noise nuisance dept. it will then be assigned to the area noise and environment protection section for your area (sometimes called the n.e.p. team). an officer will be assigned to investigate and deal with this on your behalf.... i work for leeds council and take these kinds of reports... amazing how effective a letter from the local enforcement team can be. if it then carries on control orders can be put in place. what you will need to do also is to keep a diary, dates times , duration etc. this can be then used as evidence. your local council website should have a pdf download of the noise nuisance pack and diary.
you can always call the local council, pest control / noise nuisance dept. it will then be assigned to the area noise and environment protection section for your area (sometimes called the n.e.p. team). an officer will be assigned to investigate and deal with this on your behalf.... i work for leeds council and take these kinds of reports... amazing how effective a letter from the local enforcement team can be. if it then carries on control orders can be put in place. what you will need to do also is to keep a diary, dates times , duration etc. this can be then used as evidence. your local council website should have a pdf download of the noise nuisance pack and diary.
Thanks to all for all the good advice. We get on fine with the neighbours and do get the free eggs every now and then, we're a good way off calling in the council, but in a way it's because we get on with them that it's hard to broach the subject. I'm surprised they haven't considered the neighbours a bit more tbh, they must hear the fella going off themselves.
sorry for the double post .. bloody laptop and sky interwebbage.. to be honest a word in the lughole of the offending party is often the best solution. but what i will say is that no complainants details would be revealed as its against the disclosure of personal info laws. if it doesnt get sorted . give the council a bell matey
tonym911 said:
Thanks to all for all the good advice. We get on fine with the neighbours and do get the free eggs every now and then, we're a good way off calling in the council, but in a way it's because we get on with them that it's hard to broach the subject. I'm surprised they haven't considered the neighbours a bit more tbh, they must hear the fella going off themselves.
You'd be surprised. I sleep like the dead and don't hear my neighbours' cockerel at all. If only!
They'd put in place the measures I've suggested because other neighbours complained.
They are astonishingly loud things that can drown out a conversation at 30m and they start as soon as there is a glimmer of dawn. Our two started at 5am in the summer and woke me. We keep them inside the shed (large with windows) until at least 8am which reduces the noise a lot and our neighbour is fine with this but we've said if it's not fine then the cockerels go. They only crow in the night if something disturbs them - do you have foxes around you? I would have a quiet word and ask them to keep them in until a respectable hour.
ETA: Apologies "Who Me?" - just realised I've repeated a lot of what you said.
ETA: Apologies "Who Me?" - just realised I've repeated a lot of what you said.
Edited by UnderTheRadar on Friday 20th January 08:29
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