Neighbour keeping chickens!

Idbatterim

Hi, one of the neighbours a few doors up from me is keeping chickens out the back garden and its in a residential area, its taking the absolute p*ss (noisewise). He has had them for quite a while, is this legal in an urban residential area? is there anything I can do i.e go to council etc?

CiaranC

Do chickens make noise?

im invisible

BwaaaK?

Idbatterim

skip to about 40 secs and hear for yourself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLVXWyMRLes

CiaranC

Idbatterim wrote: »

skip to about 40 secs and hear for yourself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLVXWyMRLes

They arent very loud really. Maybe theres a rooster? Id say its quite common to have a few chickens these days, doubt its illegal.

mikemac

Free range eggs right on your street

Call over and offer to buy some OP

Idbatterim

a fox got in at them the other night, didn't manage to take them all out though unfortunately!

rusty_racer94

Idbatterim wrote: »

a fox got in at them the other night, didn't manage to take them all out though unfortunately!

Ahhh you're evil! :eek:
Just remember, no chickens, no happy meals.

Teyla Emmagan

Idbatterim wrote: »

Hi, one of the neighbours a few doors up from me is keeping chickens out the back garden and its in a residential area, its taking the absolute p*ss (noisewise). He has had them for quite a while, is this legal in an urban residential area? is there anything I can do i.e go to council etc?

Why would you? Leave the poor man alone, he's only doing his best. Probably trying to save a few bob or teach his kids about the food chain. Chickens are not noisy, we had them (outside the bedroom windows) for years. Unless there is a dog worrying them or something you wouldn't even know they were there. You will never get a noise pollution charge brought against a man with a few chickens, and I'm sure it's perfectly legal.

theparish

Is it hens only that your neighbour is keeping or has he/she a cock as well,like cock a doodle do every hour and early in the morning.I have a few hens myself in a very urban area and have friends that keep them in the same town.They will make noise for a minute or 2 after they have laid an egg between 8 and 12 in the morning.They will also make a little racket if they see u with treats but again only for a minute or 2.From my and other chicken keepers experience noise was never an issue,but if it was a cock in an urban area then that is a different kettle of hens.

mikemac

The neighbors will beef up security so Mr Fox doesn't get in again
Simple things like closing their house at night and putting the wire a foot under the ground so Mr Fox can't dig under

Hens are quiet anyway, is there a rooster? Is it making noise at the crack of dawn and strutting around the place?

If it's just hens then leave the neighbor alone. It's a nice way for people retired or unemployed to occupy themselves and it's fine in an urban area

Keedowah

Hens aint bad - Roosters on the other hand!

theparish

Forgot to mention,from dusk till dawn you will not hear a peep out of any hen.
Neighbours dogs barking at night,now that a different kennel of dogs.

mikemac

theparish wrote: »

that is a different kettle of hens.

theparish wrote: »

that a different kennel of dogs.

You've a way with words

Eleganza

If you give them a nice roost and they are free to wander then you'll get the eggs, not the neighbour.

Jarren

Just get a fox




Problem solved:D

Dades

Idbatterim wrote: »

skip to about 40 secs and hear for yourself!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLVXWyMRLes

That was distinctly disappointing.

I was actually joking the other say about getting some chickens if I had a garden.

Tea drinker

Idbatterim wrote: »

Hi, one of the neighbours a few doors up from me is keeping chickens out the back garden and its in a residential area, its taking the absolute p*ss (noisewise). He has had them for quite a while, is this legal in an urban residential area? is there anything I can do i.e go to council etc?

They have the music on at night? Make loud barking noises all day? Revving on a saturday? You can't hear the TV?

I lived next door to students, wouldn't mind hens in the least. A cock crowing is a different matter...

John Mason

its completely legal

and as everyone is saying, they dont make noise unless they have a cock. if they do, ask them to keep him in the coop until 9am

phormium

I wish my next door neighbour had chickens instead of that effin little jack russell. Do dogs never get hoarse? That dog can bark from morning til night without a break, it is the constant background noise in my house, God forbid I should go out in the garden, that really sets him off, cranky little yoke.