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Going for an amendment to the ordinances is actually a great idea! A lot of these laws and ordinances are old and outdated - times change, animal ownership changes, etc. This happened in our town, too, except in the other direction - grumpy neighbors used vague ordinances to demand that chickens...

As long as they are in competition with each other, they’ll try to out-yell each other. Maybe if they had SO many hens, that there was plenty to go around, they would chill… But how many is that? And would they chill, or would they object to the very presence of other roosters, period? Who...

Roosters who see each other as competition do crow more though, as crowing is also an expression of dominance or a challenge. So one single rooster with his own flock of hens won’t crow as much as several roosters competing with each other for insufficient hens. So the ratio does matter in the...

What are your zoning laws regarding how close chicken structures can be to human dwellings? Sounds like her chicken pen is too close to your house. You can start there. If there's nothing specific about chicken coops/pens, look up animal shelters in general - barns, corrals, pens, etc. and the...