Sorry for the long post, but even though the council here allows me to keep chickens, some reason they now say I am not allowed a rooster due to being a 'potential noise nuisance.' Which confuses me as they allow cockatoos and other large parrots who are even more of a 'potential noise nuisance' than a rooster would ever be. Heck, our neighbors DOGS are louder than the rooster, but no one minds around here and just tune out when they start howling and barking, having gotten used to it.
It is odd that they permit birds that generally scream 24/7, yet not ones that can be controlled to a degree when they crow and to be honest, the rooster's crowing is much quieter than a parrot's screaming or a dog's howling and barking, I sometimes even sleep through the crowing, but the dog barks wake me up still, and they often bark and howl at night. None of the neighbors have ever put any complaints in about him as we do keep him in during the early hours of the morning when people are still sleeping, and when he is out during the late morning and early afternoon, around 9 am usually on work/school days and 11 am on week days and days like bank holidays, and the neighbors often crow back to him when he does crow and seem to enjoy him being around.
The council only found out about him when doing a gas meter check up, which is when the council started whining about it when for the past 3-4 months we had him there were no issues what-so-ever. I am unsure on what to do, and am hoping if there is a way I can try and sort out this issue with the council as I cannot afford an allotment to keep him on and I fear if I bring anything up now about him to them, they'll put a time limit on me to get rid of him and I don't want to give him away to some random person as I know he'll likely end up on someone's plate, or to give him away in general as he is a very lovely bird in nature and appearance and is a part of the family.
Is there any way I can fight for the right to keep my rooster due to their confusing idea of what is a 'noise nuisance' or not?
It is odd that they permit birds that generally scream 24/7, yet not ones that can be controlled to a degree when they crow and to be honest, the rooster's crowing is much quieter than a parrot's screaming or a dog's howling and barking, I sometimes even sleep through the crowing, but the dog barks wake me up still, and they often bark and howl at night. None of the neighbors have ever put any complaints in about him as we do keep him in during the early hours of the morning when people are still sleeping, and when he is out during the late morning and early afternoon, around 9 am usually on work/school days and 11 am on week days and days like bank holidays, and the neighbors often crow back to him when he does crow and seem to enjoy him being around.
The council only found out about him when doing a gas meter check up, which is when the council started whining about it when for the past 3-4 months we had him there were no issues what-so-ever. I am unsure on what to do, and am hoping if there is a way I can try and sort out this issue with the council as I cannot afford an allotment to keep him on and I fear if I bring anything up now about him to them, they'll put a time limit on me to get rid of him and I don't want to give him away to some random person as I know he'll likely end up on someone's plate, or to give him away in general as he is a very lovely bird in nature and appearance and is a part of the family.
Is there any way I can fight for the right to keep my rooster due to their confusing idea of what is a 'noise nuisance' or not?
And will get a few eggs to share for when the council workers next come by, maybe even add a few quail eggs in too for good measure. 
