Terence the cockerel making news in London SE7

[hilda-and-evadne]

Now the council says it has found a place willing to take Terence on for a £20 fee - the Retreat animal centre in Longfield, Kent.

 

Mr King, who describes Terence as his "mate", has until today (Sept 26) to accept the offer but said he wanted to keep his feathered friend.

 

Ellis said: "We want somewhere closer so we can go and visit him."

 

Terence is a very handsome bird, going by the photograph.

 

http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/greenwich/9272067.No_end_yet_in_Charlton_chicken_controversy/

[jackian]

Very handsome but I'm sure very noisy.. £20 I would have thought is cheap and the answer .

 

I really think that if you have cocks or chickens you have to consider others as well as yourselves. I always get concerned about my girls slight noise ,especcially at weekends early morning ,until I hear next doors dogs barking and then I relax .

[Sam]

 

I really think that if you have cocks or chickens you have to consider others as well as yourselves. I always get concerned about my girls slight noise ,especcially at weekends early morning ,until I hear next doors dogs barking and then I relax .

 

I agree, I get so paranoid when they make a noise on the weekends! Thankfully they only make a noise like once every 2 weeks now, which I think is fine when people down the road have dogs which barks constantly (not surprised, don't think it gets many walkies). My neighbour said she talks to the chickens - I told her about me being paranoid and she was so nice about it & telling me not to worry

 

I wouldn't want a cockerel where I live now, I don't think it's fair on the neighbours when you live in a built up area. Terence is a very handsome bird though

[squiffs]

a beautiful boy, but they must have known it would come to this :

[Chortle Chook]

a beautiful boy, but they must have known it would come to this :

It might not have done. After all there is so much noise going on in SE7 what with police sirens and irrate drivers with their horns. My sister lives near there so I know from experience.

 

Actually, I think people are far too sensitive about noise made by others while being oblivous to the noise they make in their own housholds with crying babies, barking dogs, lovers' tiffs, electric garden tools, warming car engines etc. etc. but then I am a (nervous) cockerel owner . . . and quite possibly a neighbour from hell

[Chicken shack]

a beautiful boy, but they must have known it would come to this :

It might not have done. After all there is so much noise going on in SE7 what with police sirens and irrate drivers with their horns. My sister lives near there so I know from experience.

 

Actually, I think people are far too sensitive about noise made by others while being oblivous to the noise they make in their own housholds with crying babies, barking dogs, lovers' tiffs, electric garden tools, warming car engines etc. etc. but then I am a (nervous) cockerel owner . . . and quite possibly a neighbour from hell

I would like a cockerel but worry about the noise. A freind has offered me one of hers to try and will take him back if it doesn't work out. I live in a lovely village that for the most part is quiet. The birds make quite alot of noise as do all the tractor mowers, hedge trimmers and chain saws but a 'COCKEREL' What do you think

[The Dogmother]

Looks like a lovely RIR boy, what a stunner.

 

Near where I used to live too.

[lindafw]

Chicken shack...may I recommend a word to your Parish Council to get their support ? whilst I have received no complaints I am given to believe someone approached the Parish Council with a complaint...and was soundly told that he should expect such noises in a rural village!! Many thanks to them for supporting my boy! and yar boo sucks to the neighbour..if he had spoken to me I would have got rid of him...now he has another cockerel friend!

[Alis girls]

The neighbour has a way with words

[Chortle Chook]

Chicken shack I'd certainly give your friend's offer a go. After all, you can't lose if she is happy to have him back should there be complaints. I know some cockerels can be quite agressive but mine is really lovely - a true gent both to his girls and me and even to the dogs though he sometimes has a stand off - stare me out session with our little terrier, which he always wins.

 

I know that some Omleteers anticipate complaints before any have been made, but I think that is a real recipe for constraint and if you go down that road you'd never do anything. So far (touch wood) far from complaints I have actually had quite a few compliments about my chickens' noise - and the girls can be a lot louder with their bock bocking than my little fellow. I am however anxious about who will be moving into the house immediately next to me (I live in an end of terrace Victorian house) as it is currently up for sale. Our previous neighbours really liked the chickens and said Dill was such a cutie that they couldn't be peeved with his crowing, but . . . Luckily Dill (my cockerel) is always noisiest when strangers are around so he crows like a good'un when people come to look round the house and I'm therefore hoping that whoever buys it will be alert to the fact that he lives nextdoor. We shall see

 

I do, by the way, put him in a darker, separte house at night. It is not totally dark, but darker than the main hen house and seems to keep him from crowing till it is really light (about 7 am at the mo) rather than the minute any light appears. If I do have complaints then I'll be putting his little house in my bathroom which is fairly sound proof. And when he does go to the great hen house in the sky, I'll be getting me another

[Mrs Webmuppet]

One of my neighbours had two bantam cockeral youngsters..............their attempts at crowing were hysterical, all the neighbours couldn't help but laugh ...........one sounded like he was being strangled and the other sounded as though he had a really bad sore throat. The two cockerals have now moved away and have their own harems and we miss their feeble attempts at crowing!