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maninthestreet wrote: »Can't the owner exert more control over their !!!!??
A question asked by many, over the centuries... :rotfl::cool:0 -
If the cockerel is on the allotments - talk to the council to establish if it is a council owned/run site. The Allotments Act allows the keeping of 'hens and rabbits' 'hens' being the female of the species. Most councils do not permit cockerels to be kept on allotments.
It you want to prove 'nuisance' you will need to be tenacious and make a record of every time it wakes you or you are disturbed and basically keep on at the environmental health team at the council. Also be on the lookout for rats - chicken feed and poultry often attract rats.
There are ways to reduce the amount of noise a cockerel makes - restricting the height of the hen house so it cant throw its head back to crow - keeping the hen house properly dark until the house is opened up to let the birds out etc.
However, if its a local farm/smallholding and you are in an area that might reasonably be considered 'rural' even if it is residential you have little chance of much sympathy I suspect.0 -
I have a cockerel called Marvin, and he's loud, but as I live in the countryside, the noise he makes is simply a part of the rural soundtrack; like church bells, the wind rustling the poplars, or spotty youths revving £90k tractors as they drive at insane speeds down narrow lanes.....
But this summer, Marvin has had a female rival, whose crow, though pretty high in terms of decibels, hasn't been quite right. The "c 0 ck - a - doodle" bit's been fine, but the final "doo!" has been more like someone stepping inadvertently on some discarded bagpipes. The overall effect is unsettling, to say the least.
Until 2 weeks ago, I knew this crowing hen was the Vorwerk with the blue leg ring. Like a pheasant, she found it impossible to call without also flapping her wings violently in a very comical manner. Seeing this almost made getting up at 06.00 tolerable, so it was sad when I found her near death one morning on the hen-house floor.
Was it one crow too many? I dispatched her quickly, knowing recovery wasn't going to happen. That was it, I thought, no more weird crowing hen.
Imagine my surprise, then, when about 3 days ago, I went to open up the hen house as usual and heard the same inept answering crow, every time Marvin opened his big beak.....
A second Vorwerk has now taken over where the last one left off! Same daft crow. I bet the neighbours are pleased.
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Sounds like the RSPCA should be involved.......TheGardener wrote: »....
There are ways to reduce the amount of noise a cockerel makes - restricting the height of the hen house so it cant throw its head back to crow - keeping the hen house properly dark until the house is opened up to let the birds out etc.
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Just googled "vorwerk", davesnave... it came up with vacuum cleaners. Confused? You bet.0
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TheGardener wrote: »There are ways to reduce the amount of noise a cockerel makes - restricting the height of the hen house so it cant throw its head back to crow - keeping the hen house properly dark until the house is opened up to let the birds out etc.
I have a method of silencing them involving shallots, lardons, mushrooms, herbs, garlic, red wine and a splash of brandy."Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius0 -
I think I've sussed it. The OP could follow the sound and then play this to the cockerel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WU-LD8J67g
or maybe set his alarm to play it at 5 a.m.0 -
Sounds like the RSPCA should be involved.......
??? Lost me there.
The height of a normal hen house is perfectly comfortable for the hen and rooster to walk around - when a cockerel crows it pulls itself up and throws it head back - if the roof is no higher than normal 'walking around height', the cockerel can't extend its neck to crow. Fairly common practice amongst urban hen keepers. 0
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