Here are a few suggestions that might help people with issues of space or close neighbors.Perhaps you can team up in an effort to help in the breeding of your chosen breed.Perhaps if 2 or 3 people work together and split the birds or the jobs.For example one could keep the breeder flock,another do the hatching,or brooding.Perhaps all three could split the 200 chicks into 3 smaller groups of 60+chicks.Perhaps one is better at culling anmd could go through all three flocks.Pooling the talent and making the best use of space,etc.
Some of the old masters would build a big or long cockerel house,one bird per cage and put them in late in the fall to finish out.The best were kept for breeding(often many breeding pens-each needing a male),many were conditioned for shows or grown out to sell to other customers wanting good breeding birds.These cockerel houses had roomy pens and were well insulated and pretty much sound proof.Trees and bushes,fences etc. were used to buffer the noises also.Some were only used in the worst weather,as they used outside pens/runs to keep the cockerels exercising and healthy,when noise was not an issue.This issue is more common today then in the past.
