One good thing chickens do is eat a lot of bugs. Including scorpions.
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Chickens eat everything, and everything eats chicken…
Love my chickens:)
RR
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Mines not silent, 22 cal single pump and its loud! So you only want to shoot once so nobody knows where it came from…
Not that I would shoot a roo
RR
Well, I’m going to call animal control and whoever else I can. Not sure they will do anything though as this city is not the most ‘with it’. Will see. Not sure I’m ready for the BB gun thing quite yet?!
We had a few chickens here (rural property) years ago, and an acquaintance gave us a rooster that was left over when the rest of the flock was shipped out. Friday night the rooster hopped onto our bedroom windowsill at 2 am and crowed until 5 am. Saturday night he did the same. Sunday night he was dinner.
Hope the animal control call works for you, @JulieHere. Sounds like the easiest urban solution.
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I do not eat meat, but I hear the mean ones taste the best.
RR
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As @JohnF said, he will be a little tough, but a good marinade will tenderize.
The reason tandoori meats are marinaded in a mixture of spices and yogurt is because the acidity of the yogurt tenderizes the meat. The bright red is annato, a vegetable dye.
Nearly a keyboard versus coffee moment there…
JF
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I’ve had a tree frog desperately looking for a girlfriend and croaking loud enough to wake the dead.
I’ve had an early-bird gets the worm, woodpecker banging on the tree outside my bedroom window at dawn-every. Single. Morning.
A boy chipmunk chirping so loudly, I decided it was ok there was a big, ole, hungry looking black snake lurking around.
A Hooty-hooting barn owl at night in the same tree as the woodpecker—damn tree.
There is only one solution – you must cut down all the trees.
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Something similar here. Mill neighborhood from the 1930s. Man lived in house & kept chickens all his life.
Neighborhood declined. No chicken complaints.
Neighborhood back in demand with craftsman houses. Young gentrification neighbors complained about him having chickens in the city limits. They sued him. Judge threw case out and young ones had to pay court costs.
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Elk bugling in the fall, we call that Arizona Mountain music. Ambience you do not have to pay for. Noone complains. Poor roosters…they lack the majesty.
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When I lived in Canada, there was a woodpecker that became enamored with my aluminum ladder. If you think pecking at the tree is loud… 
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OMG, I went camping in the Gila Natl forest and heard elk for the first time in the middle of the night. They came through the valley where we’d camped. I woke up my heart pounding wondering what was coming to attack us. As I laid there too afraid to look out my tent I gradually realized it had to be animals of some kind. My friend in his tent with his kids always carries a loaded gun with him so I thought it must be nothing since he didn’t rouse.
In the morning I asked what it was and he said he didn’t hear anything. Ha. Great to carry a loaded gun when you can’t hear crap. Anyway he guessed elk and that’s what it must have been. I regretted not peeking out to watch them.
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Being in an urban environment, we don’t get much in the way of animal noise.
What we do get is folks partying in the street, laughing, chatting loudly and drinking at all hours.
My OH normally sorts it out by shouting loudly “callate por favor” from one of our street balconies.
When that happens, I finish my drink, say good night to my amigos and go inside to face the music…
JF
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Very funny replies. Made my morning!!
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Get a humane trap and take them to a farm animal sanctuary. They’ll be happier and safer at a sanctuary. If you’re unable to do so maybe a white noise machine will help.
It’s unbelievable the sort of things people complain about. But as it’s only two, I wouldn’t worry about it.
However, it’s easy to deal with during the house tour. When you’re talking about the area, tell the guests about the roosters and then say “can you believe that one nutty guest actually complained to me about them? Crazy, eh?”
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Uhm, excess roosters do not usually go to live out old age on a farm. Any responsible poultry keeper would not allow an adult bird to join their flock for health reasons. Even health looking birds can infect a flock with a deadly disease then the entire flock needs to be culled.
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If a host didn’t disclose that there were roosters nearby and saved that until I arrived, I would turn around and leave.