Hello Everyone - Is it acceptable to leave hens and cockerels without housing, forcing them to find a roost in trees?

[Perris]

the school teacher. Let the parents and little ones know how she keeps those fluffy chicks.

This offers another option: maybe raise the issue with the head of school, who probably has no idea what happens to them once the chicks leave the school, to try to stop the problem going forward?

 

[KittyO]

This offers another option: maybe raise the issue with the head of school, who probably has no idea what happens to them once the chicks leave the school, to try to stop the problem going forward?

Thank you. I agree. I see all the positives and negatives and have considered doing just that and I am still considering. Better for the birds, but this her livelihood.

In a former life I taught others to teach and I know only too well that many get through the system that should go nowhere near children for so many different reasons, but if they receive the qualification...

That said, my patience that former students and business clients lauded has worn thin with age and at this moment in time is wearing very thin.

Capturing Google Earth shots this morning for Magistrate's Court to show neighbour could not have placed his poultry any closer to our property had he tried. He has more than a quarter of an acre of land if that means anything outside the UK. If we win the case in the local Magistrate's Court, he will have to move the poultry, removing some of the vermin problem. We cannot force him to put food away at night and if told to do so by a Court of Law he will make a point of not doing so. It would then be difficult to prove without entering his land. But we accept rats in all forms are never far away. At the moment we can look over the wall and hey presto sh1t tip.

He may be fined and if he is that would really hurt as he loves freebies, hence the free chicks. In many respects not an ideal solution although my partner is of the opinion that if he does not like us now he may as well have a real reason not to like us. Oh dear...

Need I say our neighbour is not a man that will ever consider we have a point and if the Court agrees so do others. We would have been mortified to discover our neighbours were struggling due to our negligence and apologized profusely. He will never look at the situation objectively, not bright enough. What really surprises me is that his wife is not nudging him to reconsider. Not long married he is very proud of the fact that he has found himself a 'teacher' no less. It will go to Court and her name and occupation will be shown in the local newspaper.

 

[Henhouse Harlot]

You have my complete sympathy, empathy, and all my best wishes! This sounds too familiar. Sigh

 

[KittyO]

You have my complete sympathy, empathy, and all my best wishes! This sounds too familiar. Sigh

Thank you, means a lot from someone who believes thoughts are as real and effective, if not more so, than words.

 

[raingarden]

With all due respect for you, your predicament and your motives, I'm glad we are not neighbors.

 

[KittyO]

With all due respect for you, your predicament and your motives, I'm glad we are not neighbors.

I wonder why The farmer is one of my closest friends. He is far from impressed with our neighbour. None have a good word to say for him, but we all say less rather than more and do our best to nod and move on.

We have tried to solve. Sent him a text. Spoken to him. Council have sent him a letter. He has chosen to ignore all and not said a word beyond why he added the ladder, placed against a tree, yesterday, two days after the legally required 3 day Notice of intention. 3 days to allow him address the problem.

Quote: 'The ladder is obviously to stop the cockerels struggling up the trees...'

What can I say, he just keeps on giving.

We have informed him that the Council have placed recording equipment in our bedroom. He has been told that if he loses the case he may fined and any expenses incurred by my partner would be included. He could sort the problem so it is not taken further.

Can I ask what you would do because we are at our wits end?

Do you think we will win the case?

Endless sound recordings, decibel meter recordings, photographs, aerial shots.

 

[raingarden]

Can I ask what you would do because we are at our wits end?

Do you think we will win the case?

Endless sound recordings, decibel meter recordings, photographs, aerial shots.

I don't know what I'd do but, yes, you will win. If I was your neighbor I'd be preparing to get rid of my chickens. That's why I'm glad we're not neighbors and that's why I flinch every time our crowing contest starts.

 

[KittyO]

I don't know what I'd do but, yes, you will win. If I was your neighbor I'd be preparing to get rid of my chickens. That's why I'm glad we're not neighbors and that's why I flinch every time our crowing contest starts.

I'm sorry, I love cockerels, they are beautiful boys all with their individual characters, just like our sheep. When next doors cockerels start our little boys chime in until they lose their voices. Funny but sad as they show me they can barely croak. But they are sleepy heads and one has to be coached out of bed at 8am. Next doors would be fine with an indoor coop. Better for all concerned. Give me birds and animals over the human race any day.

We have a rescue cat who was badly treated and care has to be taken even though she is old and has been with us for years. A trip to the vet requires gloves to get her into the carrier. We get there and warn the vet and she comes out and rolls over as if to say 'who me?'

I admit I have got the bit between my teeth, but not out of choice. I loathe confrontation and rarely see the world living behind high gates. It is making me ill and miserable and depressed. In my defense, the latter years of my working life I was a business adviser paid to carry out research in all industry sectors. I am thorough when I set my mind to a task. If I don't sort the problem, my partner may yet throttle the cockerels, although he has said his preference would be to throttle the neighbour. Now wouldn't the neighbour love that, and you know what, as I write these words, I wonder if that is why the neighbour is pushing so hard. He wants a bloody nose so he can sue. I think the underlying reason for his behavior lies with that old chestnut jealousy and wealth.

 

[Shadrach]

I don't know what I'd do but, yes, you will win. If I was your neighbor I'd be preparing to get rid of my chickens. That's why I'm glad we're not neighbors and that's why I flinch every time our crowing contest starts.

Unfortunately every one of these I don't like my neighbour disputes centred around chickens that reaches the official complaint stage drives another nail in the coffin of backyard and semi rural chicken keeping.
I lived for a decade with roosters shouting the odds from one tribe to another. In the summer at stupid o'clock in the morning they did wake me up, but so did the farmers cows bellowing just before milking two kilometers further down the mountain.
I live in the city now. I get woken up by the sounds of humanity with loud cars, barking dogs, people shouting etc. I would love to just have the sound of a rooster crowing disturbing my sleep.

Meet Cillin. His son threw him out of the tribe coop. He came to live with me for a couple of months while I waited hoping he and his son would come to some arangement. That nest box is about 2 metres from my bed.

I was used to roosters crowing in the mornings and generally slept through the sounds of six or seven roosters shouting the odds at 4.30am in the summer months. Two metres away in a small building was pretty loud and on some mornings I did feel like this...
These sorted the problem out.

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[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us