Hi everyone,
I know this site is predominantly for people who have chickens. But I'm hoping you might be able to help me or at least give me a bit of insight.
My neighbours got chickens about a year ago. They had 7, but now its five because they left them roaming the garden at night and foxes got them.
Now I'm working from home I can hear them constantly. It's not really loud like a dog barking, but it's all the time and driving me slightly mad. There is always a low level grumble from them and periodically they all go mental. Maybe they are laying an egg or something is in their garden that scares them? I'm not sure.
I've been putting off speaking to my neighbours. She is nice enough. He is a misery. But we've had issues with them before with their dogs barking late at night, they got a crazy security light that floodlit our bedroom and stayed on all the time. They don't maintain their fence. They have a rusty caravan in their drive. And I'm so loathed to go and complain about something else. For a bit, they were laying in the garden and we were getting egg shells and detritus in our garden but they stopped that when we mentioned it (after asking if we were sure they were chicken eggs!)
Recently I did send a text, a gentle one. Suggesting that they might have recently got louder and is there anything that might help? She said sorry that they were bothering me but offered nothing else by way of solution.
They offer us and the other neighbours eggs, but I'd much rather buy the whole street eggs and get rid of the chickens.
I there anything else I can do? I just wish they hadn't got chickens. The noise makes me want to cry when I'm trying to work and it's always there. We live in a quiet residential road in the suburbs but the chickens make me not want to go in our garden. We didn't say anything last summer when they were waking us at dawn but I'm dreading the early morning next year already.
Any ideas, thoughts or insights would be appreciated.
I know this site is predominantly for people who have chickens. But I'm hoping you might be able to help me or at least give me a bit of insight.
My neighbours got chickens about a year ago. They had 7, but now its five because they left them roaming the garden at night and foxes got them.
Now I'm working from home I can hear them constantly. It's not really loud like a dog barking, but it's all the time and driving me slightly mad. There is always a low level grumble from them and periodically they all go mental. Maybe they are laying an egg or something is in their garden that scares them? I'm not sure.
I've been putting off speaking to my neighbours. She is nice enough. He is a misery. But we've had issues with them before with their dogs barking late at night, they got a crazy security light that floodlit our bedroom and stayed on all the time. They don't maintain their fence. They have a rusty caravan in their drive. And I'm so loathed to go and complain about something else. For a bit, they were laying in the garden and we were getting egg shells and detritus in our garden but they stopped that when we mentioned it (after asking if we were sure they were chicken eggs!)
Recently I did send a text, a gentle one. Suggesting that they might have recently got louder and is there anything that might help? She said sorry that they were bothering me but offered nothing else by way of solution.
They offer us and the other neighbours eggs, but I'd much rather buy the whole street eggs and get rid of the chickens.
I there anything else I can do? I just wish they hadn't got chickens. The noise makes me want to cry when I'm trying to work and it's always there. We live in a quiet residential road in the suburbs but the chickens make me not want to go in our garden. We didn't say anything last summer when they were waking us at dawn but I'm dreading the early morning next year already.
Any ideas, thoughts or insights would be appreciated.