CockadoodleDOOOOOOOOoooooooo!!!!!!!!

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One of my neighbors got a rooster over the weekend. The damned thing has been crowing NON STOP starting from 6am every morning and continuously during the day, taking breaks only to peck at food (I'm guessing).

Probably this neighbor got the effing rooster because (from what I've heard) they have had at least two puppies (or just one, I'm not sure) get hit by cars. What IS it with careless and stupid animal/pet owners?

And why a ROOSTER? Chickens, okay, see nothing wrong with chickens because they lay eggs, they'll eat bugs, they're not that bad. And they don't CROW. But nooo, neighbor has to get a rooster in a residential neighborhood.

I did call animal control, and at first the woman I spoke to on the other end was like, "But you know crowing is what roosters do, right?" I then had to point out to her that yes, I'm aware of the noises roosters make, but aren't there residential zoning laws, and aren't people who keep birds, like chickens, supposed to get one of those $130 Aviary permits in order to keep them? Huh? 

She then asked me if the rooster was under 100 feet from my house, and I told her I wasn't sure, but I WAS sure that the rooster had to be that close to at least two other houses adjacent to the property with the rooster on it.  She put me on hold for another five minutes after getting my zip code. She must have been checking to see if this really was a nonzoned livestock area. There are areas near here zoned for livestock (horses, etc) but not in this part of the Valley. I made the mistake of not having the neighbor's address handy (d'oh!) so I'm going to have to call back later with the address so they can "investigate", whatever that means, exactly. Damn it. I was on hold for about ten minutes the first time.

Honesty, the rooster doesn't bother me *too* much (I think roosters are pretty funny) but, my suburban farm-grown Guy is going batty. He grew up with hens and turkeys and a big garden. His town wasn't rural, but it was zoned for livestock where they lived, so it wasn't a huge deal. His dad got rid of his roosters (bought by mistake when they were chicks, I think) when neighbors complained.

What is this neighbor *thinking*? 

UPDATE:  I went into the backyard, and checked out the neighbor's back yard through a small opening in the fence, a really narrow view. There are three chickens there. Two are white, one is a rooster, and there's a brown bird there, too, that I think is also a hen. I'm calling Animal Control again.

Comments

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I think you actually have to have a rooster just to get eggs. My mom's unclear on the details, but they always kept chickens to have fresh eggs when she was a kid, and a rooster was always there. Chicken eggs from the store ARE definitely fertilized - I have a feeling without fertilization it would be just the white part.

Still, the noise is just kind of unreasonably for a neighborhood. It's not like areas where water is plentiful and houses have half-acre yards and bigger.