You can lie in bed at 4:30 in the morning fulminating about the constant noise that’s keeping you awake, saying to yourself “I’m going to kill that bird” – and actually mean that.
If it’s your neighbor’s dog that’s doing it, you can complain but you can’t take positive action without police involvement. I have wanted to shoot my neighbor’s dog. I have dreamed about it, even plotted how I might get away with it. But I knew what I was really going to do was complain some more and otherwise live with the damn dog. Neither the dog nor the neighbor cared what I thought.
But I am, in fact, going to kill that bird.
That one. Right there. He’s toast.
Lucky you! Not only will that bird serve a good purpose once it is shut up permanently, nobody will complain about you killing it.
Back when my sons were small, we lived in a rented guest house on a large rural property, waiting for the escrow to close on our little farm. The owner of the property raised peacocks… and each morning they screamed endlessly, raced up and down the roof overhead, and shit ALL over the place constantly. We were not even allowed to pick up a single feather, since the landlord sold them. We were originally only supposed to be there for less than a month, but the escrow process dragged out to four months, and I was beside myself by the time we got out of there. I never, EVER want to hear a peacock again, and especially not in the morning. 🙂
For me sleeping with the window open season is also foam ear plug season.
If the vermin’s crowing from the top of a pile of sh!te, is what causes the sun to rise each morning.
Your chicken raising experiment is a success if you include all the chicken dinners. If you can make an in the ground earth oven, I’ve heard that chicken cooked over and in juniper coals is really good. You can even put a thick clay mud coating on the chicken first. Then the skin comes off with the clay when you eat the chicken. Roast a few potatoes and onions, and how could life be better?