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Neighbour keeping chickens!

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  • 06-07-2011 6:28pm
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    Idbatterim
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    Hi, one of the neighbours a few doors up from me is keeping chickens out the back garden and its in a residential area, its taking the absolute p*ss (noisewise). He has had them for quite a while, is this legal in an urban residential area? is there anything I can do i.e go to council etc?


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    CiaranC
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    Do chickens make noise?


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    im invisible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    BwaaaK?


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    Idbatterim
    Registered Users Posts: 17,852 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    skip to about 40 secs and hear for yourself!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLVXWyMRLes


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    CiaranC
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    Idbatterim wrote: »
    skip to about 40 secs and hear for yourself!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLVXWyMRLes

    They arent very loud really. Maybe theres a rooster? Id say its quite common to have a few chickens these days, doubt its illegal.


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    mikemac
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    Free range eggs right on your street :)

    Call over and offer to buy some OP


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    Idbatterim
    Registered Users Posts: 17,852 ✭✭✭✭Idbatterim


    a fox got in at them the other night, didn't manage to take them all out though unfortunately! :)


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    rusty_racer94
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    Idbatterim wrote: »
    a fox got in at them the other night, didn't manage to take them all out though unfortunately! :)

    Ahhh you're evil! :eek:
    Just remember, no chickens, no happy meals.


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    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    Hi, one of the neighbours a few doors up from me is keeping chickens out the back garden and its in a residential area, its taking the absolute p*ss (noisewise). He has had them for quite a while, is this legal in an urban residential area? is there anything I can do i.e go to council etc?

    Why would you? Leave the poor man alone, he's only doing his best. Probably trying to save a few bob or teach his kids about the food chain. Chickens are not noisy, we had them (outside the bedroom windows) for years. Unless there is a dog worrying them or something you wouldn't even know they were there. You will never get a noise pollution charge brought against a man with a few chickens, and I'm sure it's perfectly legal.


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    theparish
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    Is it hens only that your neighbour is keeping or has he/she a cock as well,like cock a doodle do every hour and early in the morning.I have a few hens myself in a very urban area and have friends that keep them in the same town.They will make noise for a minute or 2 after they have laid an egg between 8 and 12 in the morning.They will also make a little racket if they see u with treats but again only for a minute or 2.From my and other chicken keepers experience noise was never an issue,but if it was a cock in an urban area then that is a different kettle of hens.


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    mikemac
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    The neighbors will beef up security so Mr Fox doesn't get in again
    Simple things like closing their house at night and putting the wire a foot under the ground so Mr Fox can't dig under

    Hens are quiet anyway, is there a rooster? Is it making noise at the crack of dawn and strutting around the place?

    If it's just hens then leave the neighbor alone. It's a nice way for people retired or unemployed to occupy themselves and it's fine in an urban area


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    Keedowah
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    Hens aint bad - Roosters on the other hand!


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    theparish
    Registered Users Posts: 252 ✭✭theparish


    Forgot to mention,from dusk till dawn you will not hear a peep out of any hen.
    Neighbours dogs barking at night,now that a different kennel of dogs.


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    mikemac
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    theparish wrote: »
    that is a different kettle of hens.
    theparish wrote: »
    that a different kennel of dogs.

    You've a way with words :D


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    Eleganza
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭Eleganza


    If you give them a nice roost and they are free to wander then you'll get the eggs, not the neighbour.


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    Jarren
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    Just get a fox

    Fox-killing-chickens.jpg


    Problem solved:D


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    Dades
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    Idbatterim wrote: »
    skip to about 40 secs and hear for yourself!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLVXWyMRLes
    That was distinctly disappointing.

    I was actually joking the other say about getting some chickens if I had a garden.


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    Tea drinker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    Idbatterim wrote: »
    Hi, one of the neighbours a few doors up from me is keeping chickens out the back garden and its in a residential area, its taking the absolute p*ss (noisewise). He has had them for quite a while, is this legal in an urban residential area? is there anything I can do i.e go to council etc?
    They have the music on at night? Make loud barking noises all day? Revving on a saturday? You can't hear the TV?

    I lived next door to students, wouldn't mind hens in the least. A cock crowing is a different matter...


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    John Mason
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    its completely legal

    and as everyone is saying, they dont make noise unless they have a cock. if they do, ask them to keep him in the coop until 9am


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    phormium
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    I wish my next door neighbour had chickens instead of that effin little jack russell. Do dogs never get hoarse? That dog can bark from morning til night without a break, it is the constant background noise in my house, God forbid I should go out in the garden, that really sets him off, cranky little yoke.


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