Please help me understand why it's OK for a rooster to crow....

[joebryant]

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I like to hear a rooster too. I have a neighbor across the creek who has a rooster, and I hear it occasionally during the day. I don't know what he does to control the noise, but I have never heard it in the morning. It's really refreshing and gives me a pastoral feeling when I hear it DURING THE DAY or late evening.

 

[Guitartists]

I agree..... it's also that "One bad apple" thing.

I wouldn't start my lawnmower up at 5 am. I wouldn't be making any kind of excess noise at 5 am. Just because ordinances don't control barking dogs like they should, doesn't mean that it's ok for us to reply in like. If my roosters were bothering the neighbors, I'd do everything within my power to remedy the situation. Because, well, I would expect the same courtesy from my neighbors.

 

[chicknmania]

You know, personally, I'd much rather hear a rooster crowing than obnoxious dogs barking. They don't bother me at all, and we have 7. We did ask our immediate next door neighbors, who built their house after we lived here, if they minded. They don't, they love them, and our other neighbors have made similar comments. We keep ours in a barn at night and they are not allowed out that early, so their crowing is muffled. The rest of the day they can crow as much as they like...come on, how can you make a rooster shut up? It sounds to me like you are waking yourself up in the morning listening for that rooster to crow so you can work yourself into a tizzy about it. I don't think complaining to the city is the answer, and that's very antagonistic. If I were you I'd try to politely talk to her and ask her if maybe she could shut them up that early so their crowing is more muffled. It is one of my pet peeves that people who move to the country here complain about farms. If you don't like it, don't move there. And actually, there are Farm Bureau signs that you can get that say exactly that, except in a more polite way. Good luck, I'm glad you're not my neighbor.

 

[onthespot]

I live in a city with no noise ordinance, period, and a right to keep as many chickens as you want. I got a single silkie rooster and a few hens, and the neighbor (who has loud dogs and mules) insisted on hosing down my birds any time he wanted to in the winter time and several became sick and died. Even after a report to animal control about him and a confrontation and telling him and his wife that my birds were dying and all, he kept on. He lives alone (I know, he is married, but lives alone, which ought to tell you what kind of a person he is) anyhow, he lives alone in a big ol' house and had his choice of any bedroom and could have slept in another room, but no, he slept as close to my birds as possible and killed them off one by one. I am not done with him. We will be in small claims court and I plan to picket his business until he pays up. A civil conversation and an apology would have avoided all of this. If you were my neighbor and talked to me first and just asked, I'd have gotten rid of or moved the roo. Not all neighbors are nice as you are and when neighbors are nasty, they generally get nasty back. I now have nine, count 'em NINE roosters as freaking close to his room as is legally possible and plan to get more. He can go pound sand and I will NEVER speak to him again.

 

[Guitartists]

You know... people who own barking dogs say... "I'm used to the sound of it.. I just ignore it. Why can't you?"

I'm just saying

I think we need to do unto others as we would want done unto us... not... do unto others as they do TO us

 

[Guitartists]

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That's horrible!!!!

My mother had a neighbor like that

Luckily he's gone now... and not missed. Some people are just too miserable for words.

 

[joebryant]

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It sounds like to me that you are tyring to add fuel to this persons flame. Crowing comes by nature as others have mentioned. If it is legal for a person to own chickens, including a roo or 2, then let well enough alone.

The main problem that we have in society today is that people can't mind there own business.

Actually, the MAIN problem that we have in society is inconsiderate people who use the law or lack of law to justify/satisfy their own selfish wants/actions.
The complaining poster IS MINDING HER BUSINESS. It's very much her business when she's being awakened every morning by someone else's noise maker.
If you can't come up with a better suggestion than what you've made, I suggest that YOU "let well enough alone."

 

[conny63malies]

A neighbor like this rooster owner is one of the problems why we suburbian chicken owners have problems with the law and code enforcement . One guy does something , complaints come, city wants to prevent any trouble and nds up banning all chickens. Same thing with some dog breeds but i a, not going to elaborate on those. I would never own a rooster unless i have huge acreage or live in a rural setting. The only reason why i still haveone right now is because he is in the basement with the others and nobody can hear him crow, but i have deceided to put him on freecycle.

 

[chicknmania]

A suggestion until you resolve whatever...try a white noise machine. I'm guessing you close your windows and don't want to hear anything like birds singing in the morning either, so a white noise machine might work well for you. :|

 

[bluey]

I think we need to do unto others as we would want done unto us... not... do unto others as they do TO us

Amen, Guitarists! Well said.