Cockerels Have the Right to Sing! 

STOP All UK + Worldwide Councils investigating 'Crowing Noise Nuisance Complaints' NOW

"Cock-a-Doodle-Do, Tick-Tock Tick-Tock, Don't Put the Cockerel In the Dock!"

Cockerels sing just like any other bird and has been doing so since the dawn of time....

He is wild, He Wakes Us Up, His  Energy Galvanises Yours and Mine...He is Life itself.

IT'S TIME TO:

Defend and Advocate for the Right to Hear the Natural Heritage Sound of Cockerel Birdsong in the UK!

The Natural Heritage Sound of a Cockerel or Rooster Singing IN ANY LOCATION (Rural, Village, Town, Seaside or City) Is Not Ever to be investigated as a Noise Nuisance under the Environmental Health Act, as it is not a Statutory Noise Nuisance, it is a Natural Heritage Sound, and it Does Not affect the environment's health or human health...in fact it enhances it for all.

Cockerels are Sentient Beings and have a Right to Sing, a Right to Fresh Air and Natural Light, a Right to Breathe, a Right to Natural Food, a Right to  Raise Chicks, a Right to Stretch, Scratch, Run; and...

A Right to See and Sing to the Sun. 

The Crown States that Cockerel Ownership is Lawful, ergo, The Natural Sound of a Cockerel Singing is Lawful.

Discrimination, Intimidation and Harassment of Cockerel Owners by Noise Complainers, Local Authorities and Police Authorities is Unlawful and Must Stop and be Investigated under the Protection from Harassment Act et al, in accordance with the law.

Facts Every UK Cockerel Owner, Local Authority and Cockerel Noise Complainer Should Know: 

Cockerels are an Alarm Call for Nature: they are a Natural part of our UK Heritage and are integral to our Natural Soundscape and are a WORLD HERITAGE MALE BIRD; cockerels and roosters are named in the Bible and religious texts, are featured on top of Churches including Notre Dame as the National Symbol of France; contained within the ancient pyramids; as mascots for business and sports teams; as logos, on adverts such as Kellogg's Cornflakes; the original Alarm Clock for humans before becoming 'obsolete' and ditched for 'tech' instead; and yet, despite their fame and service to humanity, Cockerels remain the most Stigmatised Male Bird in the UK and the World in 2026, purely due to their birdsong...their Only Voice.

CROWS UK (Cockerel Rights for OWnerS) exists to help you defend your right to keep these sentient beings and advocate for their natural heritage song to be heard for future generations.  Cockerel chicks and mature roosters are being abandoned and euthanised every day in the UK because someone doesn't like the sound of their voice or, more often, their owners. 

Local authorities 'have a duty' to investigate 'every' complaint they receive...even vexacious, malicious, serial, repetitive ones from the same individuals. 

AND Local Authorities Do have a duty to issue a Noise Abatement Notice IF they prove a Statutory Noise Nuisance has occurred,  BUT, crucially, Local Authorities DO NOT have a Duty to spend taxpayers' funds, to take a Cockerel Owner to Court IF a Noise Abatement Notice has been breached in accordance with the Environmental Health Act. 

Additionally, Noise Abatement Notices can be removed if it is proven that No Statutory Nuisance exists or has not reoccurred. 

But these legal  rights are not explained to Cockerel owners, who have to fund expensive Noise Abatement Notice Appeals themselves, have no access to solicitors or barristers who actually know the law in relation to cockerels, and, until now, have no organisation to support them through this abusive ordeal.

A 'Statutory' Noise Nuisance are those sounds that affect more than one household; but due to 'anonymity' granted to all Noise Complainers, local authorities do not disclose how many complainers are actually involved and use phrases like: 'we have received a number of complaints', or 'there have been concerns raised', to unofficially suggest to law-abiding Cockerel Owners, that there is  MORE than ONE Complainer, rather than ONE Serial Complainer submitting MORE than one complaint.  So, this abuse of legislative practice has to stop now. 

THE FACTS:

1. Cockerel Ownership is Lawful: The UK Crown States: the ownership of cockerel is legal and cockerels are sentient. 

Legal Context: National government and local authority guidelines (including East Suffolk and Bromley Councils) confirm poultry and cockerel ownership requires no licence and is entirely legal.

Under the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 cockerels are now classed as Sentient Beings.

Under Section 12 of the Allotments Act 1950, tenants hold statutory rights for hens, but cockerels remain highly vulnerable to local council noise abatement overreach.

Cockerels natural singing is therefore a lawful behavioural activity from dawn to dusk. Experienced Cockerel  Owners  can guide new owners, and  Councils, on how to encourage  cockerels to 'have a lie in' each day, so we can enjoy our sleep AND the Cockerels' Call.

"Cockerels are recognised as sentient under the Animal Welfare Act 2022. Their birdsong is a natural heritage sound, not a mechanical noise nuisance." CROWS UK

2. Environmental Health Protections: Local authorities cannot issue noise abatement notices based on the sensitivities of a complainant and; a Statutory Noise Nuisance must affect more than one household and be fully defined on the Noise Abatement Notice - currently, a vague sentence such as 'to stop one or more cockerels from crowing' is 'currently' all that is needed on a notice along with the Appeals 'within 21 days' process on the back (which is sometimes not included to ensure no one actually appeals within the 21 Day time limit).

'Health complaints', relied upon by the Noise Complainant, such as those with  OCD, Misophonia (a hatred of sound and a mental health treatable condition which affects 1 in 5 people across the UK ref: "Sounds Like Misophonia" by Dr Jane Gregory) or Hyperacusis or a medical drug-induced sound sensitivity, are not allowed as an excuse to justify a noise has 'harmed them' under the Environmental Health Act. 

Hyperacusis and Misophonia: Statutory  noise nuisance framework is legally designed to protect the "reasonable person." It is not meant to accommodate individuals with heightened psychological or pharmacological sensitivities to specific sounds.

By relying entirely on automated data triggered by someone with or without  a documented clinical sound sensitivity without confirming the health status of the Complainant before starting an  noise investigation, local authorities are failing to apply the threshold of what constitutes a "Cockerel noise nuisance" in a normal residential environment

Yet local authorities, police AND the Courts are allowing medical reasons to justify intrusive TROJAN Audio Surveillance of the perpetrating Cockerel Owners' homes, gardens, land for 10 days of audio recording, triggered only by the hands of the Complainer; or a Noise Abatement Notice being served OR a Magistrate Court issuing fines as a result of sound sensitivity of the Complainant.   

This is unlawful and must stop immediately. 

A review of procedures and the Environmental Health Act to incorporate the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 must be conducted now.

Due to 'cost savings', an Environmental Health Officer may not even attend to independently verify that the cockerel actually crows in accordance with the Complainants' noise complaint!

Local Authorities are relying solely on Covert TROJAN Surveillance Audio equipment in investigate Cockerel Owners,, triggered  only by the Complainant, to determine whether a Statutory Noise Nuisance as occurred or not, rather than providing supportive, proactive guidance to Cockerel Owners on how to integrate simple 'night-time' tips to encourage Cockerels to have 'lie-in'; AND encourage Neighbour Mediation as  an alternative to  threatening and intimidatory Statutory Noise Nuisance investigations, which actively create hostility between neighbours,  and are an expensive cost to local Council Taxpayers.  Serial Noise Complainers should be directed to take out a Private Noise Nuisance Tort at the local Courts instead, so that they bear the costs of their Sound Sensitivity.

This local authority strategic change appears to be  due to a London Court, who found an Environmental Health Officer's opinion of the music noise case was 'subjective', as no audio equipment was equipment deployed, so this Judgement appears to have encouraged local authorities to dispense with the need, and expense,  of employing or deploying  an Environmental Health Officer altogether!

Instead, TROJAN Audio Monitoring Surveillance Equipment are covertly deployed instead, operated only be the motivated Complainant.

Evidence  demonstrates that Old Tech TROJANS can be manipulated  by using the latest technology that we currently have: 'Alexa, please play cockerel crowing on repeat' and, when used in tandem, and co-ordinated by Complainers' use of Security Surveillance Cameras Geofencing, Audio Recording and Microphone capabilities to monitor 'noise perpetrators' movements/presence (or not); tactics to trigger cockerels to 'Alarm Call' and record the Cockerel Crows on their  sophisticated 'mobile' phones and ARLO type Audio Surveillance devices, replaying exaggerated 'crow frequency ' back to TROJAN; increases the chance that Local Authorities will be 'triggered' into their Duty to Investigate ALL 'Cockerel Noise Complaints', even repetitive, serial complaints by a known Single Household or individual (which should trigger Local Authorities to investigate a Vexatious Complaint instead, in accordance with policy and procedure).

This Tactical  corruption of noise data capture, abusively plunges law-abiding Cockerel Owners  into years of threats of litigation OR forces them to rehome, abandon or euthanise healthy vibrant cockerels, that they have a Right to lawfully own. 

CROWS UK calls for local authorities to employ supportive info & training for new cockerel owners  and neighbour mediation as a mandatory response to claims of cockerel 'noise'.

Legally and scientifically, a cockerel’s crow cannot physically cause harm, reaching only 58dbls (proven after 1500hrs of TROJAN verified recordings 2017-2026) - which is the same level as laughter or human conversation. Chiff Chaffs were recorded by Dr Zollinger as reaching 66dbl, during lockdown, and they haven't been threatened by a Noise Abatement Notice, or a £5000 fine and an Anti-social Behaviour Order! 

3. Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022: Cockerels are now legally recognised as Sentient Beings but local authorities have not updated their 'noise' policies and procedures to incorporate this fundamental new law.  Cockerels now have the legal right to display natural behaviours, including singing birdsong which includes the defamatory term 'crowing' (which should be abandoned and never used), and cockerels must have access to fresh air and sunlight along with daily outdoor exercise.  Caging Cockerels and all poultry is now being legislatively challenged in the UK thanks to the successful campaign by Dame Joanna Lumley, so local authority Officers who suggest that cockerels are to be permanently housed 'inside', in the dark IS Unlawful.

4. SAY 'No' to Crow Collars & Caponisation: Castrating cockerels (caponisation) is illegal in the UK. "Crow collars" are cruel, harmful and contravene the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 et al, by preventing natural singing behaviour by partial strangulation.

5. Report any Official suggesting use of Crow Collars or any of these practices (keep in the dark, keep caged, reduce cage height to stop cockerel extending neck to crow) to the Police and RSPCA and submit a formal complaint to your local authority and demand their policy and procedures on the Environmental Health Act AND the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act 2022 and how it applies to the sound of cockerels naturally singing.

6. Heritage Cockerel Birdsong Sound: Cockerel birdsong is a natural heritage sound and is integral to our UK Soundscape that future generations of children have a right to experience and hear FOR REAL.

'Cock-a-doodle-do!'  is our traditional nursery rhyme we sing to our babies and our children sing to us all!

Yet UK Cockerels' Voices are being Systematically Silenced.

Families and Schools should be encouraged to have 1 cockerel per flock, (2 if essential pure breeding is required e.g. for heritage breeding or to combat anaphylaxis to antibiotics in commercial eggs), as Cockerels are LOVED by children and are incredible role models of fatherhood; producing chicks should not happen every year, ONLY when replacement stock is needed AND knowledgeable homes for cockerel chicks are secured BEFORE eggs are hatched. 

This way, all children in every community and family can enjoy the magic and true sound of male cockerels, AND get close to a living bird - no other bird allows you to be so close 'out doors', and their intelligence is similar to dogs; and cockerels and hens have a clear communication language of approx. 30 'words'.

Help Secure the Rights for Cockerels to Sing and Protect All Our Rights to Own and Enjoy Cockerels, Roosters, Chickens, Poultry NOW! 

We must flock together against "noise predators" to defend our heritage flocks,  cockerel birdsong and our right to produce home-grown eggs and food for our families and communities; to combat battery caged chicken farming; and crucially, prevent intimidation and harassment between 'Neighbours' directly  provoked by 'Noise Control Policies.

Cock-a-Doodle-Do, Tick-Tock Tick-Tock, Don't Put the Cockerel In the Dock!

CROWS UK (Cockerel Rights for OWnerS)

Defending Heritage  Sounds of Cockerels and Roosters

Advocating for Cockerels' Legal Right to Sing! 

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