Advice about keeping a rooster in the suburbs?

[The Zoo]

Well I hate to be the bearer of bad news but my lad crows in the dark, in the light, at dawn, at dusk and whenever he wants to remind the world he exists. I am hoping he shuts up when he's out of his teenage years and I'm lucky my neighbors don't mind.

 

[hcammack]

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Sounds like your little guy would be out of my neighborhood pretty fast. Something about roosters makes people weird its really not an anoying noise if your far away but around here I think it reminds people of poor farmers and they don't want that in their neighborhood. Its stupid

 

[The Zoo]

I know - I'm lucky. I live in an unicorporated area and you can have roosters and even cows, goats etc. Though we're totally suburban.
My neighbors on all sides like the sound of his crow so far (so far). Even though he drives me nuts sometimes. I also told them from the very begining to let me know if he was bothering them and I'd work out a solution. Neighbors come first around me (but I have good neighbors).

 

[hcammack]

Ya neighbors come first to I will ask them to tell me if he bothers them also that sounds good can't wait for tommorow.

 

[kay-chan]

lol my roosters crowed when it want and where it wants, except at night. but by the time it hit morning it starts crowing, plus scolding them get you yelled back with a crow. It was pretty funny since i live in a suberb in a quiet neighborhood, so they where eyeing my roosters for dinner.

 

[cposz]

I live in a suburb, too, where roosters are not allowed. But I have often thought that a rooster would not make nearly as much noise as the muffler-less collector car that the neighbor works on year-round, or any one of the neighbors' incessantly barking dogs, or the mini bike that goes up and down the alley every day for a couple of hours.

I don't really want a rooster. But I'm just sayin'.

 

[mandelyn]

This morning when I was letting mine out, I heard a Bantam rooster farther away than the neighbors that I know have chickens, so that brings our neighborhood total to 6 roosters, 1 for me, 1 for that far away Bantam I heard, and 4 for the people that live behind me. And we're in a township that allows them for now, in a pretty tight 1950's style neighborhood. It's small though, with a golfcourse across the road, and two parks, and all the chickens seem to be on the last 2 roads near the "buffer" properties lacking houses. So there aren't that many people to complain, and with the barking dogs... who would, unless they want the cops out for barking dogs? We seem to have a "I won't say anything about your critters if you don't say anything about mine" thing going on.

It totally helps to talk with your neighbors, I think that's why we're still allowed to have roosters. There's horses down the road too, they'd have to totally change the zoning, and the guy that owns the horse farm just built the $700,000 facility, and is influential in the township, so I think we're pretty dang safe unless they opt for a rooster ban. But, no one has said anything, thus far.

They only complaint I've ever had was when my previous chickens free ranged from the front yard and went to visit the neighbors, scratching mulch from under their bushes onto their driveway. Fixed that this time around by building a run in the back yard, and they free range in the backyard only.

Roosters in a no-rooster zone though... try it till someone says otherwise! You can always claim ignorance to the ordinance, I haven't heard of anyone paying a fine the first time, only after several visits when they don't comply with the original warning.

 

[Robin'sBrood]

I live in a subdivision on 1 acre with houses all around me, also on 1 acre lots. I've had a rooster that crows since spring of '08 - and until last weekend I had a second rooster that crowed LOUDLY (had to re-home him due to fighting.) Not one of my neighbors has complained to me about the crowing. The ones I've asked about it have said they like hearing a rooster in the morning. There is another woman that lives in this sub and has chickens. If I'm outside I can hear her rooster at a distance. I guess none of her neighbors have complained either. But, since we are in the country and are zoned AR, we have our boys legally.

Best wishes to you! Hopefully you'll have neighbors who like hearing a crow now and then too.

 

[msjones]

Back in our first house our neighbor had chickens and a rooster. The rooster crowed quite a lot, but it really didn't bug us. We often said we'd take the rooster over a yappy barky dog.

That being said, my current neighbor would completely flip out if we got a rooster. I think it depends on the neighbor.

Good luck!

 

[hcammack]

I have the guy he isn't to loud but we will see what happens. I talked to one neighbor who said it was fine.

Henry