wanted new home bloody neighbours

[kellysalmon]

I raised some chicks they are light sussex about 17 weeks old before I thought about breeding I spoke to my neightbours and asked would they mind if I had a cockerel they said no it wasn't a problem now since they have fallen out with my mum and dad they are saying that they have changed their minds and they don't want cockerals next door well two out of the 6 I raised look very much like cockerals and I have been told to get rid of them even though they are not crowing yet I am trying to keep the peace for my dads sake he has terminal cancer so I have agreed to get rid of them is there anyone near to me or willing to travel who can offer these guys a home they are not nasty and are used to being handled

 

[karlooben]

you will be very lucky if you find them a home most people dont want cockerals , i have 3 that needs homing and they are stunning the markings alone are eye catching but 2 are booked into vet tomorrow to be p.t.s as i cant get them a home they have been advertised on different sites but no luck and one of them was all over me tonight wanting hugs etc which makes things worse this will be the last year i hatch cant handle the pain of getting rid of the boys .

 

[dinosaw]

Probably no help to you but if you wan't to keep them you can improvise quarters for them that will take the noise down about 80-85 percent, basically involves a coop within a coop within an outbuilding. Has worked for me, my neighbours have never heard any of my cockerels in the morning, though you do have the hassle of grabbing them and taking them off to their bachelor pad every night.

 

[kellysalmon]

They are not even crowing yet I think they are just angry with my mum and dad and a few of the other neighbours because the neighbours and my parents have finally gone to the land lord over the state of their garden after trying to talk to them for months and months they are not even that old

 

[karlooben]

you will have to be carefull some people can turn really nasty when they start to hear cocckerals at 4.30 am , i am not meant to keep any cockerals council rules as mine live on the allotments surrounded by houses but i have managed to get away with it as no one has complained and i have to let mine out at 5,30ish as i start work early .

 

[Marigold]

At this time of year, early morning cowing won't be an issue because of the dark mornings. But if they want to object, the boys will also be audible during the day.
I doubt if you could have kept more than one of them in any case - as they mature they would fight unless each given his own flock of hens.

 

[kellysalmon]

I could understand their argument if 1 they were crowing yet and trust me their not my bedroom is right next to the run and I am awake about 4/30 each morning and 2 their bloody dogs didn't howl all night
the other neighbours who I have spoken to have confirmed there is no crowing and if there was it wouldn't be a problem I live on the outskirts of a small village we are surrounded by farms and fields and woods
I wasn't going to keep both I had planned to keep them for a while longer then one of them is moving to a new home unfourtunatly she cannot take both either

 

[Margaid]

I can understand you want to keep the peace for your Dad's sake, but who has told you to get rid of them? If they aren't crowing yet the neighbours have no grounds for complaint but it sounds as though you would have a complaint about their dogs. Maybe you could keep a diary of when the dogs howl and use that as a bargaining tool so that you could keep one. You say one of them is moving to a new home at some point anyway - can the new owner not take him now?

Whereabouts are you? On another forum someone in the Midlands takes unwanted birds, including cockerels.