Neighbour has a cockeral

G_M

bitmadmax wrote: »

Ah, I read the topic as "cockatiel", not cockerel. My bad.

Unless someone is breeding/wanting fertilised eggs, I see no reason for owning a cockerel other than to annoy the neighbours. A hen can lay eggs without a cockerel, they just won't be fertilised. And personally, I wouldn't like a fertilised egg.

Can lay eggs, yes, but they are far happier with a man about the house. When you see a cockerel leading a brood of hens out in the morning, and keeping a possessive (sorry - watchful) eye on them during the day, you'll realise how important he is to their well-being.

freeisgood

..ha ha I have just remembered a story from my childhood. We were staying at a french Gite, on a farm naturally. My mother mentioned to the farmers wife that she was woken by the cockerel early that morning, sounds of the countryside and all that.
The next morning there was no cockerel sound, a bit strange. my mother mentioned this to the farmers wife, who replied "I thought it was disturbing you so we ate it for dinner last night". My mother had to live with the guilt!

bazzyb

Bellalolo wrote: »

What would you do?

Earplugs.

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Yorkie1

Davesnave wrote: »

OK then, almost anything can be a nuisance in extreme circumstances, but the Allotments Act makes it unlikely chickens kept in 'normal' conditions would become the concern of a council.

jjlandlord wrote: »

That's very different from your original statement, isn't it?

The Act also makes it clear that no nuisance should be created.

JJL is right. The AA 1950 says:

"...
it shall belawful for the occupier of any land to keep, otherwise than by way of trade orbusiness, hens or rabbits in any place on the land ...
Provided that nothing in this subsection shallauthorise any hens or rabbits to be kept in such a place or in such a manner asto be prejudicial to health or a nuisance or affect the operation of anyenactment."

So while it is lawful to keep chickens as long as they don't cause a nuisance, there is no right under the Act to keep a cockerel.

OP, as others have said, if you don't want to talk to the neighbour directly about it, then speak to environmental health at the council. Crowing at anti-social hours is capable of constituting a noise nuisance in principle.

allybee101

At least it's not a Peacock - much noisier, although apparently they make excellent security guards!

Try talking to them first - no harm in doing so - a friendly chat is much more likely to be taken better than a letter from the council.
There might be something they can do.

zenmaster

Has Anybody Seen My Cock?

I_have_spoken

Catch an urban fox and throw it over the fence.

hayday75

A neighbour of mine keeps a cockeral.
It !!!!-a- doodled when i was just about to take a bit of a tasty chicken thigh.
It put me right off:rotfl:

shortchanged_2

Bellalolo wrote: »

That wakes use at between 4.30am - 5.30am crowing and continues throughout the day.

Not really bothered about evenings but the early mornings are catching up.

What would you do?

Think chicken instead of turkey this christmas.

catshark88

Live and let live.