[ManicMum]

Now you've got your letter reply ASAP to the council indicating you'd like to meet them/ contest the complaint etc.

I agree with all the above points re responding in writing and sending it Special Delivery - make a note of the tracking number and you can check online who signed for it.

Try to work with the landowner and the other cockerel keepers as the council is a body elected by residents which includes you as well as the grumpies.

What restrictions were on the land re livestock before it was divided up into allotments - different restrictions apply to farmland.

Be willing to discuss compromise if this will make it easier for you to manage reducing your numbers.

Good luck.

[Sassy]

Good luck with this. Why can't people live and let live, they would get used to the noise and be able to sleep through it if they gave it a chance.

I have had complaints from one house re my cockerel which is 3 fields away from it! and any other properties.

How do these people cope with the dawn chorus which is mega decibels??

[bastonjock]

The guy along the road from me had a letter from the council regarding his cockerel,i dont know what he did but he still has his cockerel,so there must be a way to keep your boys.

I have three cockerals,one was a hen untill it started crowing i have spoken to all of my immediate neighbours and none of them mind,they all see it as part of living in a village.

Last weekend,i went to buy another 4 hens,we are now up to 11 birds,whilst i was ther we saw some white hens and we were going to buy a pair untill they started their noise,they were worse than cockerels.

im probably going to have one cockerel for the table and depending on how it works out i may reduce that to only having one.

[pekinpete]

i know all about troubles members are having with complaints about their cockerels crowing,there is 1 person who lives near me who seems to have nothing better to do than complain to council about them,had a person from council out on a number of occasions and said no problems with them but as long as they have 1 complaint they have to act.i would say to anyone who had complaints don't act to quick to get rid of birds still got mine.