A German couple is suing the owner of a cockerel they claim crows 200 times a day and is ‘torture’
Friedrich-Wilhelm K., 76, and his wife Jutta said Magda the rooster crows around 8am and doesn’t stop all day.
The pair want Magda removed from their next-door neighbor’s home in Bad Salzuflen, Germany, and kept daily logs of her crowing.
“We can’t utilise the garden or open windows,” Friedrich-Wilhelm told German TV.
‘He starts at 8am because he’s locked up at night, but he crows 100 to 200 times a day. It’s painful.
Jutta: ‘It’s hard to speak about torture, but that’s what it’s like.’
“A cockerel doesn’t belong in a calm housing estate,” claimed the couple’s lawyer Torsten Gieseke. Friedrich-Wilhelm said that one neighbour moved away two years ago due to the loud crowing.
But Magda’s owner, Michael D., 50, said he needs the rooster to keep his hens in order.
“The chickens need the rooster or they’ll peck each other,” the owner said.
Michael purchased five chickens to lay eggs in his yard in 2018.
But one of the chicks was a rooster and angered locals.
Friedrich-Wilhelm and Jutta are fed up with crows and will sue Michael and Magda at Lemgo District Court.
“We ran several tests.” Our kids and neighbours tried, said Friedrich-Wilhelm.
“The neighbour won’t give up his rooster, so we must live with it or go to court.”
Magda’s legal case on the other side of the Atlantic mimics the troubles of numerous families in Britain who say loud roosters are damaging their homes.
Council authorities in Worcester are investigating one property after neighbours reported a loud bird woke them up at 4am every day.
In May, neighbours asked the authorities remove a pet bird from a residence in Arboretum, Worcester, alleging the bird had caused them ‘eight weeks of broken sleep’
Sonya Vickers, 48, who lives nearby, said: ‘Some of us have requested to keep it in the dark coop until 8am before letting it out.
“But nothing occurred.” Many times we’ve requested gently. antisocial It’s causing some trouble down here.
‘We heard keeping the cockerel and chickens may be against the law.
“He crows at 4am. It’s 5am every day.
A home-based worker stated the cockerel interrupted his zoom talks with his employer.
He added, ‘It’s hard to be professional when your workplace sounds like a farm.’
Our morning meetings are regularly disrupted by cock-a-doodle-dos, so my coworkers nickname me Old MacDonald.
It’s not unlawful to keep chickens or cockerels, but anything that makes a loud noise is a nuisance under the 1991 Environmental Protection Act.
In December 2017, a court ordered a Blackpool couple to rehome their four cockerels, who ‘created agony’ for their neighbours.
Lorraine Burgeen, 58, and her husband Alexander, 69, caused havoc in Lancashire.
Residents requested the pair to remove the birds three years ago but were received with hostility.
A neighbour stated, “It’s a nightmare.” Can’t sit in garden or open window.
“It’s a horrible noise, but they don’t care.”
After pleading guilty to noise abatement offences, the couple was compelled to find the birds new homes.