Rooster noise and neighbors...?

[buckeyechick]

I am new here... from Ohio. I live in an area where chickens will be legal. However, my neighbors and I own 1.5 acre lots, and I have two neighbors that are rumored to be complainers to the local authorities. I would rather avoid such complaints.

I am planning to set up a small group of chickens for personal use, on my property. I will not need a Rooster most of the time, but would like to have fertile eggs when it is time to replace aging hens. I am thinking about a rare breed, and I figure it would be pretty neat if I could hatch out the next generation of pullets from my own stock.

So, this lends itself to getting a rooster, even though I will not need his "services" very often.

Any ideas, comments or suggestions on how to acheive this without getting complaints from neighbors when he wakes them early in the morning? Is there such a thing as "stud service" in the chicken world? (Please don't laugh... ha ha)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Are roosters allowed? My personal experience with my neighbors is that they LIKE my roosters. Just tonight I was told that a group of my birds (with two cocks) that I placed in a horse stall in our common area a couple of weeks ago were very nice to have there. Earlier today I was asked if I could and would put more birds there (especially to eat flies

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[chooniecat]

I personally do not like rooster crowing(even during the day,if its frequent) and couldn't blame a neighbor for being unhappy. I am fortunate to have no one with-in 600 feet of me and have an 8 week old cockerel that I will have to wait and see how he will be housed. if he sings a LOT, for my sons and my sanity, he may be kept in his own house away from the actual chicken shed during the evenings and released with them in the later morning. I am sure there is someplace on here to ask about"stud" service. and if you're not releasing them to free range and WANT to get your own roo maybe put the coop/pen someplace surrounded by noise barrier(pines?)good luck!

 

[buckeyechick]

I take it that housing a rooster in a coop with no windows/lights at night, and timing the morning with a light timer, will not throw off the time of his morning announcements...

If my setting were more rural, I would not worry, but I do have two neighbors (neither next door) that are chronic complainers...

that being said, my next door neighbor to the south owns a tiger, so if someone complains to my face, I can smile broadly and say, "At least its not a TIGER!"

LOL!

 

[flgardengirl]

We are on several acres but I have a nieghbor on one side of me that doesn't have chickens so I put my run and coops on the other side of our outbuildings away from those nieghbors just to be considerate. We are allowed to have roos here and I can hear many other people's crowing throughout the day. Mine aren't terrribly noisy but we leave them in the coop until it is @ 8 am. Then after they get out and stretch we throw them a little scratch so that keeps them busy for awhile and they forget about the crowing.