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| Swazi authorities ban noisy roosters |
| 2008-05-22 |
| Authorities in Swaziland's capital Mbabane have launched a crackdown on cockerels amid a surge in chicken-breeding that is disturbing the sleep of the city's residents, a spokesman said Wednesday. Speaking to AFP, Mbabane Municipal spokesman Bongani Dlamini said authorities would begin to enforce a 40-year-old law that permits residents to raise up to 12 chickens with permission but no roosters. "We know that our people have been hard hit by the sky-rocketing food prices but that does not allow people to raise chickens without the approval of the council," Dlamini said, expressing concern that the city was becoming a farm. "After many instances we have found cocks to be troublesome and they end up making lives miserable for residents," he said. Artificial lights sometimes confused them, leading to crowing in the middle of the night that disturbed people's sleep. The law, he recalled, states that residents of Mbabane can raise up to 12 chickens in sheds after seeking the approval of the council but that cockerels are expressly prohibited. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Chicken Season? |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-22 23:35 |
| #5 Artificial lights sometimes confused them, leading to crowing in the middle of the night that disturbed people's sleep. Ours here crow in the middle of the night, too. I didn't realize that was the reason why. You hear them at 2am sometimes. I'm told that a lot of the chickens here are feral. Maybe the county needs to call in the chicken hunters. Two-buck bounty on a pair of feet, and all the stew you can eat. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2008-05-22 22:38 |
| #4 Put their perch right up under the ceiling, so they can't stand up on it. If they can't stand up they won't crow. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2008-05-22 18:45 |
| #3 Their iron fisted cock rules. Soon to be regulated by state chicken chokers. Not so different from the US, is it? Here, you'd have to pay $25 for a permit to raise them, that's the only difference. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-22 12:44 |
| #2 Sounds like Angie lives in a town that "celebrates diversity". |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-05-22 12:17 |
| #1 I can think of certain American towns that could use such a ban; right this very damn minute I am listening to the constant frigging shrieks of roosters in what is supposed to be a tourist oasis. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2008-05-22 12:16 |