Ready to shoot the rooster! - Page 3

in my experiences, getting a government athority involved is the only way to get such an issue resolved. i've been there and done that.....

the only way i got a neighbor to keep their chickens in their yard was for a police officer combined with a health official to knock on the door of the owner and explain in no uncertain words the law.

getting them out there was a task.

Some mentioned that they must not be that close to my house......honestly, they've been coming up against our fence, literally right beside it. They have no fear of dogs because the trailer park dogs don't attack them, otherwise they would have booked it when my dogs charged the fence one day.  Knocking on their door may get you shot.....but it definitely won't stop the problem.  That's not an area I intend to go down to visit. The field is big enough that the trailer park is far-ish away, but the rooster/chickens walk everywhere they shouldn't.   Others have been hearing the rooster besides me, and I know they're annoyed by it as well.  I mean honestly, some of these people don't work your 8-5 work shifts, some need to sleep in the day.....Would you want a rooster crowing in front of your house (or trailer in some of their cases) at 7 in the am if you worked a late shift? Probably not lol.  I do know a few of the people who live down there, not from going down there, but from the past. I still never go down there.   One of my cop friends mentioned three meth labs being busted back there along with a few people being shot.  Some lovely people. That's why I'm so thankful spring is here, everything is blooming on our fence now (sounds weird, but we have bushes literally covering our fence from the front all the way to the back/on the back fence) so hopefully we won't be seeing anything soon.  The back isn't entirely covered by bushes though like the sides of our yard, just a little bit of it.

How is this all the roosters fault again? The original poster said: his dog got out of the fence somewhere along the back of his property. He also said his grandmother owns the property where the rooster was and she has no quarrels with the rooster being there. So until he owns that field where the rooster runs around - the only person at fault here is the original poster and his dog bustin out from his yard. If anything the roosters owner should be calling the police and AC. But who knows anymore, nowadays everything is ass backwards. Poor Rooster.

BabyEagle.......I'm at fault? The rooster/chickens have been doing this for months....and my dog just got out a few days ago.....Really?  So they should be calling animal control on me? I fixed the fence where she got out. Sorry, but you're wrong.

I find it odd how the owners of the rooster are at no fault at all to you, when they've yet to confine their own animals on a daily basis.  Mine gets out once and I'm at fault now..... I fixed where mine got out so she won't be getting out anymore.....but I'm still at fault? 

I think what she means, it isn't fair to blame a rooster for being a rooster. Not the roosters fault. Now, if zoning allows roosters, then you just need to get some ear plugs because you have fixed your fence, yes? So the rooster is on his side, and your dog is now on your side?

Unless I'm missing something else?

beetree, the rooster is on his side, as in where he "lives? And my dog on my side as in where I live?  Sorry, I was confused.  I'm not sure what zoning laws are though.  I don't literally mean to "blame the rooster"......more so the owner. You know what I mean though :)

Ya I do think that. You said yourself your grandma owns the land the roster roams on and she has no problem with the Rooster. Whateva, this is stupid. Have fun hatin on a Rooster.

Where the heck do you live that you don't know "zoning laws" !!!  Basically, it means certain areas have approved legal uses, such as, in your case, farm animals are allowed in residential areas. Or not. Sounds like you are in a more rural, than suburban area, where we do get these battles every now and then. It kills me because the "city" folk buy into the green bliss of the burbs or the country, and then the first thing they do is complain about stuff like, there are no streetlights, or the damn neighbor's rooster wakes me up in the morning.


 

Or our fertilizer for the crops in the field, stinks. Or our tractors are too big for the road. Or our tractors move too slow and slow down traffic. Or, or, or ... LOL