Rooster Crowing - Neighbours Complaining

Kristy123

We have a rooster that crows in the morning after 9am as we keep him in to avoid crowing at unsociable hours.

He crows in the morning and then maybe a couple of times throughout the day.

Do neighbours have any way to make us get rid of the rooster considering we live in rural Ireland down a road with a dead end, a few houses but mainly farmland, surrounded by cows, sheep and wildlife. They also have issues when the dog barks (at a cat/postman, not nuisance barking), for context, majority of our other neighbours have dogs that also bark.

Orban6

If your neighbours have a problem with a rooster crowing a few times a day in the countryside, then they're living in the wrong place.

Deagol

Tell them to move back to the city if they want quiet :D

Honestly, there's zero they can do legally - tell them to take you to court if they keep annoying you about it. A judge would laugh them out of court.

Uncle Pierre

This one wouldn't be a noise issue…but can't help wondering what they must be like during slurry spreading season!

Mrs OBumble

Sounds like you need to trial a crow-banger, OP.

LambshankRedemption

From A Year in Provence:

There was a peasant who for years had coveted his neighbor's house; not for the house itself, which was almost a ruin, but for the land that was attached to it. He offered to buy the property, but his neighbor, taking advantage of the sharp rise in house prices, accepted a higher offer from a Parisian.During the winter, the Parisian spent millions of francs renovating the house and installing a swimming pool. Finally, the work is finished, and the Parisian and his chic friends come down for the long First of May weekend.

They are charmed by the house and amused by the quaint old peasant who lives next door, particularly by his habit of going to bed at eight o'clock.The Parisian household is awakened at four in the morning by Charlemagne, the peasant's large and noisy cockerel, who crows nonstop for two hours. The Parisian complains to the peasant. The peasant shrugs. It is the country. Cocks must crow.That is normal.The next morning, and the morning after that, Charlemagne is up and crowing at four o'clock. Tempers are getting frayed, and the guests return to Paris early, to catch upon their sleep. The Parisian complains again to the peasant, and again the peasant shrugs. They part on hostile terms.

In August, the Parisian returns with a houseful of guests. Charlemagne wakes them punctually every morning at four. Attempts at afternoon naps are foiled by the peasant, who is doing some work on his house with a jackhammer and a loud concrete mixer. The Parisian insists that the peasant silence his cockerel. The peasant refuses. After several heated exchanges, the Parisian takes the peasant to court, seeking an injunction to restrain Charlemagne. The verdict is in favor of the peasant, and the cockerel continues his early morning serenades.Visits to the house eventually become so intolerable that the Parisian puts it up for sale. The peasant, acting through a friend, manages to buy most of the land.The Sunday after the purchase goes through, the peasant and his friend celebrate with a huge lunch, the main course of which is Charlemagne, turned into a delicious coq au vin.

We had a cockeral who used to start crowing around 5am. You and your neighbour is lucky yours only starts at 9am.

If it helps, I do have a good recipe for Coq au Vin 😉

rock22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123069112#Comment_123069112

Why do you all assume that the neighbours are recent refugees from the city? Even as a rural dweller, it is quite possible to be annoyed at a neighbour's cockerel and dogs.

Uncle Pierre

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123076226#Comment_123076226

Because by and large, country people will know that some places in the country will have a rooster, that will crow at ungodly hours of the morning. While it may be annoying, it's part and parcel of life in the countryside, and no point complaining about it.

City people who move to the countryside may not have thought of such things before they moved, and are much more likely to complain about them when they happen.

OP here is actually being very considerate by keeping the rooster in the dark until 9 a.m. The neighbours should be thanking them, not complaining.

The Continental Op

Ours crow all night sometimes. Took a while to work out why but if a car goes past at night with headlights on they think it must be morning. Don't see the problem? You get used to the noise quite quickly.

iniscealtra

They live in a rural area 🙄 🐓 Judge in Fance put the parisians in their place. If you live in the countryside ….

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/05/french-court-rules-maurice-noisy-cockerel-keep-crowing

mykrodot

We grew up in North County Dublin with cocks crowing. We had hens and bantams and the cocks crowed every morning. I loved the sound, its no worse than cows mooing or donkeys braying , a sound of nature, a sound of the countryside.

I am now in Kerry and my neighbour starts strimming his field (yes strimming a field ! ) as soon as the days get brighter so this has already started in January!! It goes on for hours and everyone complains (I am in a very small housing estate beside his fields)………………but it seems to be his thing and its the countryside. He can do what he likes on his own land. So can the cock.