Roos vs. Neighbors-Need Advice

[Rootball]

I think all the oakies on the site are feelin their oats a bit too much. Im generally all for roosters, and I think you should keep yours


BUT

If you stop for a minute, you might also see why the neighbor feels the way they do. Just because someone doesn't want to listen to a crowing rooster all day, doesn't make them an ignorant city slicker. There is more than one reason to buy a house in the woods bordering the national forest. Chickens is one good reason, but so is peace and quiet in the mountains. I live on a ranch in Western Colorado, and have no complaints, but I can think of about 1,000 areas nearby where I wouldn't want to hear crowing all day.

All im saying is, your neighbors point isn't totally invalid, and so you should try and address it in some way if possible.

 

[Beekissed]

Yep....when I am home some days, the roos are really tuning it up...and it drives me nuts!!!!

I can only imagine how I would feel if they weren't even mine and they were making that racket!

I am currently planning to cull all roos but one.....

 

[ColoradoMike]

I agree with Rootball. I see a lot of people saying 'you live in the country, what does the neighbor expect?'. It looks like you live in the mountains, which isn't typically rural farmland as I see it. Lots of people move to the mountains for solitude, not 'country living'.

My opinion is you should pare down to one rooster and maybe try to construct a sound barrier w/ hay bales or something.

Good luck!

 

[SallyF]

We moved from 1/3 acre in SC to 270 acres in Tennessee. I enjoy listening to all the racket around here, wild turkeys, song birds, bull frogs, crows, cows on the next farm, and yes, even roosters crowing. I can hardly wait to get some guinea hens so I can hear them also. These are all sounds of nature, and I'll take them any day over motorcycle exhaust, squealing tires, car stereos which vibrate the cars and my house, and any other of the sounds I heard in town. Some people are just too, too picky. Tell 'em to shut their windows and turn up the A/C so they can't hear anything natural. Or maybe they should just turn up the TV.

 

[mylilchix]

Thank you for all of your thoughts and opinions. We kept our original roo because he is a beautiful bird. Not very good with the kiddos, but he makes awesome babies!! I'm planning on breeding him, and have been acquiring new pullets to do so. My bantam roo is fairly quiet, he crows a little in the morning and every once in a awhile during the day. My serama roo is pretty noisy!!! Poor boy LOVES to crow. I don't want to get rid of him yet because he's keeping my hen company while I wait for my serama chicks to get bigger.

As for the neighbors, they're snotty, yuppy, and like to pick on us because we're close and we won't shoot them

. (Unlike the neighbors below us who have constant barking dogs, but will shoot you so everyone leaves them alone. Hmmmmmm) The complaining neighbors don't know the reasoning behind the "farm." We have chickens to feed us and llamas to keep an eye out for predators. With 4 kids I'm glad to have my llama alarm system!!

A lot of people move into my area to homeschool and to have livestock. I'm zoned for a 400 sq. ft. coop (at least 100 chooks), and 4 large livestock animals per acre (16 animals). There is nothing in the rule book that says I can't have livestock or roos. If I had a dollar for the number of people around here who have chickens or want to get chickens I'd be able to retire comfortably. There is a HUGE homesteading movement up here that the yuppy families haven't gotten into yet. The people who are complaining are ignorant and need to to be taught about self suffiency (sp?) and homesteading. It's everywhere around us. Heck, if they want peace and quiet move to Evergreen, CO!!

Thanks for your input!!

Sonja

 

[Rootball]

Quote:
Dont ever ever ever complain about people doing donuts in their field or mud bogging or playing their stereos at all hours of the night or shooting skeet 24 hours a day or dirt biking in the countryside. These are the true and noble pursuits of the good people who choose to move to the countryside. Any who oppose these uses are selfish and ignorant city dwellers.


The natural things are those things that we create with our hands from the metalic bounty of the earth like chain saws and gravel crushers. Nature will spurn those who bring abominations such as AFRICAN Guineas, or the chicken, sometimes known as the Southeast Asian Jungle Fowl into her bosom.


As a 7th Generation Coloradoan whose family has made its home in the Rocky Mountains for well over 130 years, we now plead with all of the hayseeds and farmers to take there Chickens and their Swine back to the hot and dirty country side of the Carolinas or Kentucky or whatever rock they crawled form under and live as they like in those places so that we may be spared to listen to the true and good sounds which issue from our Mountain homes naturally as they would from the homes of every true and good person who would take up a mountainous, yet non agricultural existence here in the cradle of God's good grace.

 

[Beekissed]

Dont ever ever ever complain about people doing donuts in their field or mud bogging or playing their stereos at all hours of the night or shooting skeet 24 hours a day or dirt biking in the countryside. These are the true and noble pursuits of the good people who choose to move to the countryside. Any who oppose these uses are selfish and ignorant city dwellers.

Eh?

Those "who oppose" are usually the people who lived there before the disturbers of the peace "chose to move to the countryside"!

Tearing up the countryside with machinery, other than plowing to grow some food, is neither noble or good, IMO. Please don't lump real country folk in with people who bought land out in the country to play with their destructive toys.

 

[Rootball]

Quote:
Eh?

Those "who oppose" are usually the people who lived there before the disturbers of the peace "chose to move to the countryside"!

Tearing up the countryside with machinery, other than plowing to grow some food, is neither noble or good, IMO. Please don't lump real country folk in with people who bought land out in the country to play with their destructive toys.

The real country folk tear up the land with their destructive toys as it should be. Hayseeds who move in with chickens pretending in their ignorance that they are homesteaders reborn subvert the laws of nature and goodness.

Your idea of real country folk is contrived drivel which you spout fourth after one too many episodes of little house on the prarie.

 

[Over Easy in Adna]

Anyone else happy that they do not live in Western Colorado?

 

[Vanderfelt]

Anyone else picking up on Rootballs sarcasm? I am positively drowning it has dripped so much! lol!