Is There a chicken in your neighbor's backyard?

My neighbor has had a rooster for a long time. I only hear it when I get up for the bathroom. It does not bother me nearly so bad as barking dogs. Of course the neighbor is about a half block away. I grew up visiting my grandparents on a farm, so it is just a pleasant sound to me, unlike the sound of the dog that I hear penned up and barking at every bird, car, etc.that is in the neighborhood.

I have five chickens but I live in the country! However before we moved to country we did have chickens in suburbia. I also know of others who had them too. Soon after we moved to the country I decided to adopt a vegan diet/lifestyle so I don't eat the eggs that they lay but the rest of my family loves them

Here in the Philippines, it is common for almost every household to have farm animals as a member even the most crowded places. Most of us seem to manage giving them a space to thrive no matter how limited the space. The crowing of roosters don't bother me at all. In fact they are a great help for people who need to get up early or on time. They are nature's natural alarm clocks. As for those who hate being awakened early, they better consider it part of the discipline. Seriously though, people should place their animals like roosters away from another neighbor's house. It can be truly bothersome. Not to mention the smell of their dungs.

well one neighbor used to have a chicken that crows when its 5am and i got used to it and even helped me wake up on time for work or school. But its gone and really dont know what happened with it. and its great that people want to grow their own food. its safer and more economical but i think its not that great if you live in a city and such. its not that a good of a sound hearing 50 chickens crowing all together.

It's very annoying for insomniacs like me to have chicken in my neighbor's backyard, I feel lucky not to have one......

No I am staying in a city where there won't be any chicken on the streets.

I live in the city, where nobody keeps chickens now, which is different from more than twenty years ago. It is impossible for one to raise chickens as the majority of people in apartments without a backyard.

hi barehugs I would be a lot of irate people will soon change ontario city dad's minds about chickens in the city. I think chickens still belong out in the country where houses are not crowded together. I hate to be woke up by a rooster crowing at sunrise,they had that in Tempe and Phoenix Arizona until people complained so much they outlawed chickens to the outside of cities where there were farms. chickens belong on a farm. not in ones neighbor's back yard.,Here in California the chickens belong on farms, not in cities where they wake us up at ungodly hours.

A chicken in every pot was a promise, I think of one of our Presidents. But that didn't mean a chicken in every yard. Chickens are very dirty birds and unless kept very clean carry worms and mites. I don't think allowing them in city yards is a good idea, it probubly won't last long.

I really hate roosters. I work at home and graveyard. I take and make calls. But between 4-6am this rooster in the neighborhood starts and thats when my problem start. I cant work like that. So what I do is I close the window but I can still hear the rooster crowing in the back ground. I dont want to call and receive calls with that on the background. I would like to appear as professional as possible and with that that is impossible. This is just a nightmare and Im still dealing with it right now. I hate roosters they are so noisy why cant they just crow in minimal volume. It doesnt make sense at all. Why do they even have to crow.

There are a lot of chickens in our neighbors back yard. I really hate the chicken because they have parasites in their bodies that crawl into our house because their house and our house, is really very near. They also have a pig and the pig really stinks sometimes.

woah! chicken, chickens! it's not just our neigbor who has chickens but my dad has raised chickens in our backyard as well but it doesn't bother me because they dont sound so loud as roosters do. raising chicken has become somewhat a trend in our place, i hate the smell of their poop but hey i love it when they're in the oven and roasted to perfection! happy mylotting =)

Back home in India...i hade chickens, dogas and cats...well if your talking about the noise that the rooster makes....the cats were worst that that. And at night the dogs start to bark...its been so noise in the nights...

Yes! hahahahahahhaha! But it doesnt bother me, its not loud ^^

How'd you know? LOL I live in the country though, so there's bound to be at least a chicken or 2. LOL I don't mind the sound of a rooster crowing, except for when it is next to the bedroom windows when my family and I are trying to sleep. I swear, this rooster that comes around must never sleep as he crows all the time, hour after hour. Fortunately, he's usually away from any of the windows when he does it, although there have been times when he's been close. Then my husband or I have to shoe him away so that this rooster doesn't disturb our kids. We do also use air cleaners at night to help drown out any noise, but when a rooster's this close it doesn't help at all. That's a tough one to answer. I guess it depends on if the neighbors are willing to accept it. Otherwise maybe chickens should be left to be raised on a farm. Happy mylotting!

Ah, you have not lived in Indonesia. Chicken and chicken. Where I work, there is a rooster which always makes noises not only early in the morning as it should do, But he makes noises at 12 noon, at 3pm, at 7pm, at 9 pm, almost every hour I think. Once I skyped with a friend from Korea in the afternoon and he wondered why there was this rooster's noise in the afternoon?