Hmm - I’ve actually been the guy who made the complaint about 2 decades ago. I had a neighbor who had a chicken coup in his backyard. I didn’t complain until the roosters started waking me and my renter up at 5AM on Saturday & Sunday morning. I lived in the middle of a town - and had just read in the local throw-away rag that the town had a “No Farm Animal” ordinance. I took advantage of it.
The didn’t get rid of the coup after the first complaint. The next weekend - Cock-a-doodle-do - Me “Hello Police Dept.” I was listening in on the police scanner. The call went something like this. “Any unit in the area - we have a domestic call about a rooster waking up the neihborhood.” The response was “Central - let me take that - I talked to them last weekend, and they didn’t take the hint!” Problem solved.
Your neighbor didn’t get the memo: they are supposed to EAT the roosters — not keep them. LOL.
I have mixed feelings about this. It depends on the size of the lots, I suppose, whether chickens are a nuisance. I live in a community that was once all farms and has gradually become a city, as parcel after parcel is subdivided. I think it is wrong for a subdivision to be built adjacent to an operating farm and then for the residents of the subdivision to complain about farm operations. I’ve seen a lot of that here, and I’d come down on the side of the farmer every time.
The other thing, if the roosters are waking you up (their job) have a little patience and you’ll soon find that you’ll sleep right through it. I kept peacocks for about 10 years (checking with my neighbors first) and they kick up a much bigger ruckus than any chicken. They scream “Rape” at anything that disturbs them. They are terrific “watch” animals and would screech at any car (except ours) that drove into the driveway. But, after a while, I never heard them. I was odd that they could differentiate between our cars and other cars, but they knew, even if they did have pea sized brains.
I should mention that I live on 12 acres with similar acreages surrounding me.
Just imagine: If your neighbor had been of French extraction, that would have been a coupé!
Seriously: Having a coop is a dead give-away!
Regards,