We recently moved into a new place within Moonee Valley, and unbeknownst to us the neighbour we share a back fence with keeps about a dozen chickens
The coop is about 8m from our master bedroom, no roosters fortunately but they often wake us up in the early morning and it's driving us nuts
I don't mind chickens, and they're fine for most of the day when they're outside, but with the coop so close it feels like they're performing a concert when they all join in with egg song
Problem is that there isn't really anywhere else it can go, as their yard is long but very narrow with houses on all sides, so it's going to annoy someone no matter what
And by council rules they need 15m between any dwelling for a coop, which they don't have anywhere as it's a pretty dense area, so he won't be able to keep them at all anymore
So not sure if we should ask him to move it as far away from us as possible and risk pissing off another neighbour, or get the council to ask him to do it
Figure if we ask him to move it and it's still an issue, then it'd be pretty obvious who called the council. But if we start with the council then it could be any of 5 direct neighbours including us
What the most effective option here that won't make us assholes or enemies? Never dealt with a situation like this before
well kfc did have a chicken shortage..