Cockerels on allotment

[OverWyreGrower]

We currently have 3 cockerels, but have had up to 9 at any one time. We're semi-rural, and live on what looks like a normal residential road, but all the houses have huge gardens/land and fields behind them.

I was never bothered about the noise our cockerels made, mainly due to the noise made by the hens, goats, sheep, pigs, dogs and horses kept by our next door neighbour; and the noise made by the young lad 3 or so doors down as he revs his car on arriving or leaving his house.

I'm fairly sure if I complained about our next door neighbours noisy menagerie, I'd get told that they are 'countryside' noises, and as such, we live in the countryside.

[Nicos]

We live in a hamlet of 3 houses.
When I got my 'gals' 2 of them turned out to be boys.
I asked my neighbours if they would be bothered by the crowing- (and that they would be kept in at night)- cos if they would be then we'd rehome them.
They looked at me in utter disbelief and said that this is the countryside- it's a noise you expect.

They did however ask if we could please not get a donkey as the previous owner had had one- and that drove them nuts

[OverWyreGrower]

They did however ask if we could please not get a donkey as the previous owner had had one- and that drove them nuts

We visited someone who had a pair of Rhea... and the noise made by the male is something else.... sounds like a boat/ferry horn...

There is a not-very-clear recording of one here (much louder in person, in the mating season!):Greater Rheas, Greater Rhea Pictures, Greater Rhea Facts - National Geographic

[Snadger]

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If I lived next door to me I would be seriously aggravated!

In faceache terminology.............snadge likes this. lol

[OverWyreGrower]

If I lived next door to me I would be seriously aggravated!

I wouldn't mind living next door to you!

[RichmondHens]

I wouldn't mind living next door to you!

Tee hee Bring a tent! As well as the cocks crowing there is a field full of cows and calves with currently a bull in there servicing them (lots of bellowing) and 900 sheep a couple of fields away. Whoever said living in the country was quiet!!!

[Nicos]

..want a peacock to go with them???...they're pretty noisy too

[RichmondHens]

..want a peacock to go with them???...they're pretty noisy too

Actually I'd love a peacock or two, but am undecided about how they would settle as the neighbour across the fields has a lot of peafowl and I fear they may migrate to hers when they hear them calling.

[Hilary B]

I reckon that if OTHERS can hear them and YOU CAN'T it's bad manners. Otherwise, it's just the luck of the draw!

[BUFFS]

i suppose people object to a cockerel(im not talking about inconsiderate keepers) because we have generally moved so far away from the way our forebears lived,with increasing awareness of the natural world,we can only hope more come to realise that the sound of nature is on of earths gifts,i think" how would i feel if i couldnt hear them" and just enjoy whatever part of it pleases each one of us..we are only here once...i think!!