topic Re: Neighbor's Rooster in Home

Neighbor's Rooster

Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:23:18 GMT

I've posted about this before. Two doors down there lives a rooster (half acre lots). I am beyond annoyed. Not only are we not zoned for "fowl", having a rooster is extremely inconsiderate.

I contacted code enforcement and a notice of violation has been issued. What appears to have happened now, is, the neighbor has simply moved the bird a bit farther back on the property. What? It's still very audible. (They are also to rid the property of the turkey(!) and hens they own.)

There is a new subdivision being built behind us. Fancy, pricey homes. The rooster owner has thirty days to comply and apparently, it's on me to file another report if they don't. I'm almost at the point where I will wait for the "new" folks to move in. I don't see this as something "they" will tolerate. Aarghh. It's a nice cool morning and I'd like to open the back door and greet the day without the cockle doodle doo. He's really screechy.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

sarahpanda — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:54:52 GMT

That would drive me bonkers !

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Carolina925 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:01:30 GMT

I love the sound of a rooster crowing...from a distance. I think we are allowed to have hens in my town, no roosters in the incorporated limits. When I first moved into my new development, a lady thought she was in the country and got a rooster who would stand under her neighbor's bedroom window and crow each morning as the sun was rising. The neighbor asked her to get rid of him or not let him run free but she ignored him. He mysteriously disappeared some time later... I would gladly trade your rooster for my neighbor's barking dogs. She has 6, one being a hound who howls and then starts the others to barking. She apparently is oblivious to their barking.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:07:52 GMT

I mean, the neighbor may find it comforting to know the rooster is out there. But would you not consider your neighbors? And then, why is it incumbent on me to try and find a "diplomatic" solution to a problem which by all rights should not even exist?

I have another neighbor with a collection of barnyard animals (no rooster, though) who has expressed empathy towards the rooster owner, as if, if only "someone" had talked to them about the rooster, they would have gladly re-homed him. (No knowledge that I reported them.)

Seriously? Zoning enforcement has written them up and they move it a few feet back on the property? I doubt they would have budged an inch for me, with a neighborly complaint.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Carolina925 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:27:45 GMT

Definitely zoning enforcement should address this but, if it's like my county, they won't. People can be so un-neighborly; hope they realize soon that they're being a nuisance. The new neighbors may not be so patient as you've been.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

millieshops — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:39:58 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia definitely annoying. What does your local code provide as the violation for harboring roosters, barking dogs, etc? Maybe all they could do is issue a 30 day warning for the first report? What happens if there's another complaint? You could be waiting a very long time for the new neighbors to move in and complain.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 11:53:18 GMT

@millieshops , nobody really wants to start trouble, and in this end of town, the old neighborhoods that were formed as fee simple with no HOA often get shrugged off.

As if an HOA can solve all of the ills of community living. Not true. Been there, done that. To me it just absolves municipalities of responsibility as residents pay out the nose for "services". And pay property taxes, to boot!

I'll call the inspector back if, in 30 days, the problem has not been resolved.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

millieshops — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:13:56 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia I think filing a second complaint if the neighbors do nothing more or living with the noise is your only choice.

You didn't say, but from my life in your kind of territory, I would guess there is no consequence beyond a notice for a first complaint.

And do keep in mind that laws and rules no matter whether they come from statehouses or property offices really only work when citizens agree to follow them. When I sat in an intro philosophy class way back when, I really did not understand the need for a concept of the social contract and how our lives are changed so drastically as people choose to make their own rules - whether that's owning a noisy rooster where it's illegal, driving drunk when it's both illegal and dangerous, etc.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:16:56 GMT

Couldn't have said it better, @millieshops !

I will call again. I have the inspector's direct line.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

sann — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:37:33 GMT

Where I live trains aren't even allowed to blow the whistle during night time hours. Actually I like the sound of the train whistle. Not sure what the rules are for a Rooster........

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

goldensrbest — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 12:42:00 GMT

Love hearing a rooster,but not next door, should be in the country.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Carmie — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 13:46:29 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia You have my sympathy.

I am afraid that rooster would end up being the base of a pot of chicken noodle soup. I absolutely hate the sound of a rooster crowing.

We spent a week in Greece in a beautiful B&B. A rooster could be heard crowing all day long from our room and throughout the neighborhood.

I couldn't wait for that week to be up and go home.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

caroln242 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 14:33:26 GMT

We live in the city limits were chickens are allowed but not roosters. A neighbor behind us had a rooster that crowed starting about 4:30 am and off and on all day. We called the animal control officer and about 2 weeks later the rooster was gone.

We thought that was the end of it, but several months later they got another rooster. Same thing...early morning crowing and all day. So we called animal control again and several weeks later, no rooster!

There is a $200 fine for keeping a rooster in the city limits and I'm wondering if the neighbor had to pay it or just keeps getting warnings.

I can't believe he got a second rooster after he was made to get rid of the first one.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

River Song — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 14:38:15 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia ,

You have my sympathy. One of my neighbors had a flock of guinea hens and boy, were they noisy. Those birds are as big as turkeys and made quite the racket.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 15:18:44 GMT

@River Song ack, guineas are horrible! They are pretty and they're good grubbers, but to me they sound like a rusty pump.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Sooner — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 15:36:54 GMT

We had to call a few times before they confiscated the rooster that was illegally kept somewhere behind and down the hill from us.

It was driving us crazy after we retired. Before we weren't home much--and the same idiots had a PEACOCK, which sounded like a woman being murdered.

Anyhow, call until they get rid of it. My advice.

Also, chickens should never be allowed in a city. They cause every dog in miles to bark, attract predators, are nasty and noisy and very dirty, and will ruin any yard they are kept in.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 15:40:35 GMT

Absolutely, @Sooner .

One of my neighbors' yard is a disgusting mess and even the trash service began to refuse their refuse.

The kids all run around barefoot and they have a swimming pool. Just gross.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

skatting44 — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 15:48:18 GMT

Hear ya. I had a neighbor who had a rooster who crowed several times a day. He did not limit his crowing to the am. The rooster used to raom around in other people's yards , even mine. One of the other neighbors has dogs in a fenced yard. Well, I don't hear that rooster anymore . I do not know for sure but took a guess that the rooster wandered into the wrong yard.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

Sweetbay magnolia — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 16:01:29 GMT

Well, yes, @skatting44 . My German Shepherd might not take well to a roaming chicken. He's already on alert to chase away the (dare I say it) feral cats.

Re: Neighbor's Rooster

decaf — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 17:03:33 GMT

@Sweetbay magnolia Do you have to provide your name and the rooster owner will know it was you who complained? Are you afraid they'll retaliate against you?