Noise / cockerel / distance?

[Devon_Cattle]

Our farm is diversifying and we have some breeding groups of rare breeds of poultry. About 12 groups in total, each has 2 cockerels, so 24 roos in total, roughly. We are about half a kilometre from the nearest houses. You can very faintly hear them.

Any one had experience of noise complaints / how this might be handled if we ever get an issue?? Trying not to worry as just want to enjoy this and the farm desperately needs it.

 

[spin cycle]

no experience of them but you can get 'anti crow collars "...... reduce volume if not stop

 

[topground]

Internet search noise nuisance from cockerels will inform you about noise and statutory nuisance under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.
Running a business you have a defence of best practicable means. If and when the council EHO comes calling with suggestions that you are causing a statutory nuisance as them what they consider is BPM.

 

[Paddington]

We were living in a small hamlet and had read in the paper about the local council instigating a noise enforcement order on a noisy cockerel. Our cockerel was quite noisy and I spent one morning going around the neighbours asking if they were being disturbed by his crowing. Nobody had heard him, but the last person I called on was being woken at 4am. Cockerel was mentally put down for coq au vin, however she said the crowing reminded her of their romantic holidays in Greece where there was always at least one cockerel crowing at dawn. As breakfast was not for a few hours they had to find a way to pass the time. I said I would get rid of our noisy bird, "don't you dare" she said.
So we didn't.

 

[Welderloon]

Who doesn't love a cockerel crowing in the morning..............................Karen & her family who have just moved to the area from Central London & have always loved the peace & quiet of the country that's who

Best make sure you have dark buildings to keep them in between 3pm & 9am

 

[kfpben]

Have some cockerels 10 yards from our bed. Doesn’t bother us.
Plenty up in the village too, I’ve never heard of any arguments about them.

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Can't remember if it went to court or not but someone I know had to get rid of their cockerel, The to$$er who made the fuss was not a city Karen but was country born and raised and always lived in the countryside.
Don't think at 1/2 kilometre there should be any problem

 

[essexpete]

My wife bought one years ago, I was mighty pleased when the neighbours complained in a not unreasonable manner.

 

[Kidds]

If I had 24 cockerels 500 yards from my house I wouldn't hear them if I was inside with the windows shut.
It would be a bit of a racket outside though depending on weather and wind direction.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

This morning we had an effing cock pheasant crowing outside the house at the crack of dawn.

Much louder than my banty cockerel

 

[PSQ]

It's amazing how far you can hear a cock pheasant from at 4am on a crisp morning, but it's one of those sounds thats a little bit magical when you realise it comes from every direction: one starts and a dozen join in.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

It's amazing how far you can hear a cock pheasant from at 4am on a crisp morning, but it's one of those sounds thats a little bit magical when you realise it comes from every direction: theres dozens of them competing.

He must have been right outside the window because I could hear him ruffling his feathers through the double glazing.

Our 4 yo daughter is fascinated by them strutting round and brawling.

 

[Bongodog]

This morning we had an effing cock pheasant crowing outside the house at the crack of dawn.

Much louder than my banty cockerel

We once had wild peacocks in the village, nothing making more noise than a randy peqacock

 

[toquark]

When we lived in the village we had a few backyard chooks, one was a bantam (female) that used to crow like a cockerel. Our nearest neighbour who's house was positioned between ours and a farm at the edge of the village and who had complained about anything and everything since moving there few years earlier used to go mental, shouting and bawling at the vocal little hen through his bedroom window. One morning he marched across the driveway to confront me about it, when our other neighbour - the farmer - must've overheard the conversation, walked over and interjected, telling our the guy that he needn't worry about my crowing hen anymore as he was going to be shifting away from sucklers to buying in freshly weaned calves every fortnight, so there would be a shed full of roaring calves 20 feet from his house, starting after Tuesday's sale.

I've never seen a man so angry he couldn't speak before.

 

[DrWazzock]

We used to have Guinea fowl. They made a noise like somebody sawing a corrugated iron sheet with a blunt hacksaw. Somebody actually thought that that was what we were doing in the yard all day.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Should have heard what it like in this yard before the old farm was demolished ,we rounded up 70 cockerels one year and then before the diggers turned up another 50 ,they had been left to go ferral for years ,,must have been hundred hens and chicks coming out of every shed .

 

[kfpben]

When we lived in the village we had a few backyard chooks, one was a bantam (female) that used to crow like a cockerel. Our nearest neighbour who's house was positioned between ours and a farm at the edge of the village and who had complained about anything and everything since moving there few years earlier used to go mental, shouting and bawling at the vocal little hen through his bedroom window. One morning he marched across the driveway to confront me about it, when our other neighbour - the farmer - must've overheard the conversation, walked over and interjected, telling our the guy that he needn't worry about my crowing hen anymore as he was going to be shifting away from sucklers to buying in freshly weaned calves every fortnight, so there would be a shed full of roaring calves 20 feet from his house, starting after Tuesday's sale.

I've never seen a man so angry he couldn't speak before.

Who are these people!?
I have a family who live 20 yards from my calf shed. I can have a conversation over the fence with them while I do the milk feed. They never complain. Perhaps I’m just very lucky?

 

[Lincs Lass]

We once had wild peacocks in the village, nothing making more noise than a randy peqacock

Dont I know it ,got the poxy things here

 

[kiwi pom]

Who doesn't love a cockerel crowing in the morning..............................Karen & her family who have just moved to the area from Central London & have always loved the peace & quiet of the country that's who

Best make sure you have dark buildings to keep them in between 3pm & 9am

One or two in a group of hens is fine.
Large numbers perhaps not so much.
24 in the OP's case, maybe fine, maybe not

 

[kiwi pom]

Who are these people!?
I have a family who live 20 yards from my calf shed. I can have a conversation over the fence with them while I do the milk feed. They never complain. Perhaps I’m just very lucky?

Might just be lucky, might be the way you talk to them.

When you read on here how some members talk about towns folk, you wonder how they actually communicate with them.
Always a few headbangers around of course, doesn't matter how nice you are to them.