[loulove1]

I have recently moved house to a rented detached house with a private garden as had problems with noisy neighbours at our last house.

Any way my dad hached and reared 3 golden bahrama hens for me this year and have been very excited about getting them.

Picked them up last week and they are great, wont lay for a few more weeks but are gerat fun and follow you round the garden like pet cats lol.

We have got friendly with the neighbours and mentioned that we had the chickens, a couple of days later and my letting agent calls me and says the landlord has had complaint about the noise from the chickens and they got to go. Now these hens do not make a sound and as we have private garden no one would know they were there, so talked to neighbour and she said landlord wife who she is friends with had called to ask how we were as neighbours. She said great, but she dropped a joke along the lines of "as long as the chickens dont escape" and assured us she did not complain.

Problem is now i have letter telling me chickens have to go and i am really annoyed as this is why we wanted a bigger private garden and as we have a young child we would not have any pets in the house so dont see what the problem is?

anyone had problems with landlords and keeping chickens as dont want to get rid of them.


The other thing i should mention is i have six ferrets in a large run and the landlord has no problem with them but does not want us to have the chickens, not sure what he has aginst chickens.

This post has been edited by loulove1: 16 October 2009 - 11:15 AM

[harrycatcat]

I would write back to the landlord and not the letting agent and grovel nicely and say that the chickens don't cause a nuisance and when you leave promise that the garden will be left as you found it.
I would assume that its in your contract about no pets.

[loulove1]

I am going to look at my contact in detail this weekend before I respond but as far as verble agreements went the letting agent only made it clear that it was no pets in the house and never mentioned the garden.

[harrycatcat]

It should be in your contract or they cant say anything really but they could still give you 2 months notice as that is the normal time to give a tenant to leave. Even then there are still things you can do ;)

[neil cooney]

I'd arrange a meeting between yourself, your neighbour and your landlord to sort out the problem. If behind your back your neighbour did complain he'll hardly say it in front of you.
And stress that you are not keeping a rooster and that hens are quiet.
How young is the child? If the child is a toddler explain that the hens are the childs pets and will be heart broken.

This post has been edited by neil cooney: 18 October 2009 - 06:56 AM

[artic]

That is shame, firstly i would kindly ask why they are against you keeping poultry.

Are they likely to move back into the property?

Sweet him up a little, explain that you only have a few and its very educational for your children.

I wish you all the best.

[fresh earth]

if you moved to be able to keep them then i would have thought the bright thing to do would be ok it with the land owner before you agreed the let but i would say that if it said no pets in the house it would probably mean the premises in other words the house and any other land etc you are renting.