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Do your neighbours complain about your birds? Have you received complaints?

Do neighbours affect your poultry keeping?

Should people be more tolerant? How much should a neighbour withstand? Have you had an unpleasant experience of this? Are your neighbours interested in your birds?

Anyone moving to the country or a rural area has to expect 'rural' noises. You would not move to the town and then complain to the council about road noise, or car alarms etc (unless excessive to the norm I guess) so you cannot move to the country and complain about cockerels crowing, or cows mooing or whatever.

well im lucky, to one side of my house is some rich peoples house who have it as a holiday house (they live in syprus lol) and to the other side, the people dont actually come out there house lol so im ok, not quite sure how people will react when tyson (my brahma cockerel) starts to crow!

I keep my tribe at the fields where I keep my ponies, there are houses in front of the fields but the people who live there are great, I think they are just glad the fields are being used rather than being over run with weeds, brambles junk and rampant kids! They even keep an eye out to make sure there are no unwanted visitors or trouble! So far no complaints about Burdie crowing his little socks off or noisy hens ducks or geese, I think they complained more when my fields were derelict and full of kids messing round and burning stuff!

Every time someone from the village mention the cockerel noise I unswer " this is the reason why I move to the country from the city as village people are more considerate to the nature and noises" strait away I get a lovelly smile and they change the subject LOL IT WORKS>>>>>>>> try

Oh gosh don't get me started on neighbours. I think we have the worlds worst here!

an old neighbour complained to our council and they came did an inspection and our land lord ended up with a letter to get his septic tank sealed as the smell was that not my chucks

When neighbours start to mention chicken noise, take them round a few fresh eggs with the chickens compliments

Definately! works everytime!

My neighbours are great! They built a huge 8ft fence last year so they didn't need to see our 'horrible' hens, they don't realise what a huge favour they did lol.We no longer have to look at their ugly faces over the fence during the Summer
They are the type to moan about the hens behind your back, but too cowardly to say anything to your face!

We are really lucky as none of our neighbours complain about our little flock and actually like to hear them chuckling away. They bring their kids to visit the girls and take away some of the unusual coloured eggs.
The couple at the back of our gardens rush round to let us know if the fox is in the area too which is really helpful.
My son's friends also have chickens that they reared from chicks and one of them was a cockeral!!! So they let the neighbours know that they were going to do the dreadful deed and get rid of him so that they wouldn't be disturbed.
All their neighbours came round to complain............ that they didn't want Cocky put down they liked having him around. It just goes to show that are good neighbours out there. Am thinking of trying my luck with a cockeral......... but perhaps not wouldn't want to push my luck to far.

I think if people are just keeping a few hens in their back garden like three or four then neighbours need to be more tolent it also depends on breed since some are more noisey then others. Keepers should take on board a sense of responsibility and know when enough is enough they should think about their neighbours well being as well though some neighbours are just dead against the chickens or any kind of noisey animal except for dogs and children.

I dont agree with cockerals in urban areas but thats just me i think its unkind to neighbours as most reasonable wont complain but may still be bothered by the noise it can be a very stressfull noise to some especially to light sleepers.