Green Frog house

Anyway, what's the worst they can do? If they complain to the Council, it's possible that Environmental dept. will measure and record the decibel level of crowing from their house. If, as you say, this is a low level, the complaint won't be upheld, so long as there are no covenants against keeping poultry on your land. If they tell you they're thinking of doing this, don't worry, the Council's resources are no doubt highly stretched and they don't get round to doing anything for months - by which time the days will be short and the early morning noise therefore much less.
But, as I say, if all this stressing you, it seems to me the only other option is to keep hens only.
How many cockerels are we talking about, actually, - both in your field and in your garden?
 
I intend to try and keep them happy as far as possible as I love the field and have invested so much in it in terms of fencing, poultry run, sheep, learning about pollinators, wildflower meadows etc.
 
The sheep and poultry get on very well even when I put the sheep inside the run to eat the grass down.

Strangely I had a complaint to Environmental Health from a nearby neighbour at home after I had moved my two breeding cockerels to the field. Three quiet cockerels remain on my allotment. They asked the neighbour to keep a diary of the noise times and said they would put microphones to measure how loud and frequent they were. They also wrote to me and came out to investigate within days. Although the ones at home are much more audible than the field cockerels I've been told not to get rid of them. I think sometimes people are irritated by a noise when something else is going on their life and it doesn't always relate to the volume of the problem.
 
I think that's very true, Chickenfan. Once a person becomes sensitised to a noise, they get more easily worried by it, and actually listen for it and get more upset by it. If your boys were crowing very early in the morning in our next door back garden and waking us up, I would complain like mad, but in a fairly distant field I don't think the problem is such a real one.
A new family has just moved in two doors away - with four little children, all boys, i.e, a baby, and the other three between three and seven years old. They seem to spend a great deal of time in the garden, racing around having competitions to see who can scream the loudest. The schools only broke up today. It's going to be a long summer holiday at this rate!
So, to be clear - you have 3 cockerels on your allotment, two in the field, and some at home (how many?) that you've been told are OK to keep?
 
Hi Marigold I have Linden's father in the garden of my house and in the allotment which adjoins it I have two cockerels, so three in all at home, but I ended up choosing quieter breeds of bantams (sablepoots and sussex bantams) as my original large fowl Marans cocks were too noisy. I have a lovely assortment of silver and lemon sablepoots if anyone with a good home wants a trio. They have extremely cheery, inoffensive crows.
 
Just wondering about the nestbox on the Green Frog house and whether it takes a long time to open and close?

Also, if I got the basic house and put it on a raised frame as Chris suggests, would it blow away in the wind? I'm not sure how heavy they are?

There aren't any to visit near here.
 
Re nestbox - if you do the clips up fully each time I suppose it would take a bit longer to open, but would be very secure. I just leave the clips open as my thumbs are not very strong and opening them is tricky for me, so I just push the straight bit of the clips through the slots to hold it down. You could lock shut the clips fully at night if security was a problem. The lid doesn't open fully horizontal, it opens enough to see inside and collect eggs but it is a bit difficult to remove a broody from a nestbox. However, it's easy to take the nestboxes off the side of the coop and dismantle them for cleaning, like all the other parts of the coop.
Build quality is very good, the house is heavy and solid. I don't think it would be any more likely to blow over than most other houses. The plastic walls are thick and give good insulation, both against cold and sun. It should be possible to design a way of securing the coop to a home-made frame with some kind of brackets, as I expect you could drill the plastic of the legs. I think blocks is the simplest solution though.
 
Many thanks for the helpful information Marigold. I have finally managed to find a Green Frog house to view and it looks really excellent. Seems to have quite a lot of small holes in the panelling here and there for ventilation as well as the vents at the top. Am definitely going to go for this as my next house. Thank you for the recommendation.
 
I've realised that out in the field the Green frog house might be a security risk - a bit easier to walk off with than a wooden house. What a nuisance.
 
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