complaining neighbor

[SpottedCrow]

This is what got me in dutch with the health dept...Jerry's crowing.
A neighbour who I never even had 5 words worth complained that his crowing was making her migraines worse...I have migraines and Jerry didn't bother me...
At least your neighbour talks to you; this one went right to the health dept...
I had to close my window today because one of the landscaping companies had a leafblower going...and the neighbour behind us had a brush cutter and a small backhoe going before 9 this morning...
I'd research alot more about what you can have for chickens. You might have to check with Animal Control and the Health Dept.

 

[countrygirl4513]

Good for you southern28chick, I would've done the same thing. As a matter of fact... I have done the same thing. People like to park and party on the bridge about 100 ft from our house. And I never hesitate to call the sheriff. I have even... and this was recently... stood out by the road with my husband super flashlight and waved down these kids scootin around on their loud muffler ATV and told them I will call the law if they don't stop. #1 it is illegal to ride those things on the roads, #2 the noise is unacceptable.
What ever happened to common courtesy? I don't fuss at my neighbor for his cows mooing, he best not complain about my roosters crowing!

 

[Southern28Chick]

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I do hate to have to call the sheriff on anyone because I wouldn't like it if someone called them on me...BUT 11:00 pm on a Sunday and you have a live band "rocking out" in your backyard is just to much. These people actually do ride four wheelers up and down our road which is a residential farm road. I know that sounds wierd but that's what it is, it's a short residential road with about 15 houses spread out in the woods and everyone that lives here has 3 acres or more with 200 foot long driveways (so you can't see anyones house unless they have a lot of land cleared) and most everybody has livestock on their property. 3 houses down from mine is a 15 acre horse farm. Every morning I wake up to the sound of at least 6 roosters, and only one is mine. We don't complain about animal noises here but we get upset with idiots partying nonstop and riding four wheelers that scare the horses on the farm down the road.

 

[PeiTheCelt]

Chickennovice,

I don't know where you live, so this might be UTTERLY useless, but if you're in the boonies at all, do you happen to live in your states equivalent of an agricultural district? In NY, if you live in an agricultural district you have to sign a contract when you purchase your property that essentially says "look, you will smell cow manure fertilizer, hear chickens and horses and such, if you don't like it, don't live here."

It is a darn useful thing (it's why we're not even worried about the roo(s) that we end up with, our neighbors will legally have no room to complain). Again, if you live in the burbs or in a town this won't help any, but if you live in a more rural area, it might be worth checking if it's something equivalent.

 

[countrygirl4513]

Southern28Chick, I'm sure you don't do anything that would require the law to intervene. Sometimes enough is enough and you don't have a choice.
The problem is the world is getting too small and the people are too plentiful. I use to live in what we would call the boonie's, now... a mile and a half up the road a neighbor sold his farm to a corporate bully who has built massive warehouses on it. Now we have to contend with semi's coming through at all hours of the day and night. What is this world gonna be if we let these type people just come in and pour concrete all over the place? It's to the point that the country isn't the country any more. We are to be custodians of the earth but there are those who have little concern over what our g.grandchildren will be left with. It use to be that you could spend the afternoon under the shade tree and not hear and see these modernizms. Lord, I miss those days!!! When all you would hear was the birds singing, the cows mooing and yes the rooster crowing!

 

[Southern28Chick]

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Very true and very, very sad!!! If I see one more subdivision being built I just might sell my house and everything in it and move to the mountains and live in a man made shack and live off the land. Heck, that's what DH wants to do anyway.

 

[arlee453]

Don't move too fast, the mountains are full of new development too...

We seem to be growing houses here rather than agriculture in Cabarrus County, no doubt.

-S

 

[Southern28Chick]

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I thought they were raising development taxes so people will slow down building in the moutains. There's talk of them doing that in my county to make transplants want to buy an existing house rather than build a new one. They're also taking about taxing transplants for each child they have because they're overpopulating the schools. Then they get mad that schools are having to go to year round and it's really their fault.

 

[speckledhen]

My friend Lynn, previously mentioned-her neighbor took eggs from her then kept calling animal control! And I saw her covenants. She was allowed to keep enough poultry for her family's use and even BREED poultry. Now, tell me how you do that without a rooster! AND, roosters crow. Fact of life. Grrrrrrrrrr.
I told her to record her rooster crowing before she got rid of him. After he was gone, play the recording all the time, LOUDLY. When the idiot called the authorities and they came out, she could just say, "What rooster? I don't have a rooster! See for yourself." Then eventually, animal control would write him off as a nutjob and she could get another rooster.

 

[schmoo]

Tell you what - if we ever win the lotto we are going to buy such a huge piece of land it would be impossible for anyone to bug us. About 500 acres outta do it, then we'll build a house right in the middle