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Good point. I don’t think I’d leave but I’m saying that as someone who has never been plagued by them being noisy. Although as @Annet3176 mentioned, tree frogs are the LOUDEST.
Unexpected wildlife is a bit of a bugger though - I was recently in our parking lot quite early in the morning and there was a peacock staring at me. 
How nearby is nearby? There is a rooster crowing about 300-400’ from my cabins, I can hear him during the day. I do not think I need to disclose it.
They are REALLY LOUD crowers, worse than a rooster I’d say
We had a flock of peacocks
Multiply by 5
We had a watch peacock that would roost on a branch that hung over our road, I would try and sneak home at 2 am… the bastard would always announce my arrival!
There was a rooster across the arroyo from me that was about that far away. I was ready to murder it or its owner. Woke me up from a deep sleep about 5 times a night, even with earplugs in. I don’t mind hearing them way off in the distance.
Up to you whether to disclose it. Some people could sleep through a hurricane with trees crashing down. I can’t.
I’d agree with that, although they are both awful. Peacocks sound more to me like they’re screaming HELP!HELP! than crowing.
I can tell you from experience that the bird whose nest you don’t want anywhere near your bedroom is a jay. No sound is worse than the noise that jaybird chicks make when an adult nears. Those wide little mouths that seem as big as the bird make a screech that is the most horrible wakeup ever!
At 58 degN, daybreak in May, when birds start calling and hunting, is about 4am. Steller jay clutches average 5, and the sound of 5 baby jays screaming together at that time is excruciating. I had to keep watch in early May on all the possible nesting spots near the house, and take nests-in-progress apart so they would build elsewhere.
Baby ravens, and then crows, rank just behind jaybirds for horrible “feed me” screams from their young. I haven’t had magpies nearby, but I’ll bet they’re just as bad. Corvids are always noisy. None of the backyard chickens in my hood are noisy.
When all the birds are dead in a few years, at least we’ll get a good night’s sleep.
My goodness. Some people should stay home. I was awakened by owls at one airbnb I stayed at and my main concern was trying to get a picture of them silhouetted against the night sky.
Glad @jaquo didn’t get flogged by the peacock. I’ve been flogged by a chicken—that was enough.
Friend #1 didn’t know turkeys could fly short distances. They are mostly ground dwelling but roost in trees at night. Went to visit a friend#2 on family farm. Confronted by territorial wild turkeys. #1 climbed on top of car to get away from them only to be greeted by the Tom scratching the roof of her car. #2 saved her by coming out with border collie. Turkey pandemonium!!!
Once, when hiking/camping in northern Ontario, we awoke to a screech owl, which sounded to us just like a bear cub, and, boy, did we ever not want it to be a bear cub! Such a relief!
Howler monkeys are apparently the loudest animal- their howl can be heard up to 5 kilometers away. But when I read that, I listened to some recordings of them- while the sound apparently carries that far, their sound is low pitched and while sort of eerie, it doesn’t sound like anything that would drive me crazy, like roosters or peacocks, which are high-pitched.
I have a friend, quite a bit younger than me (she was actually a friend of my youngest daughter’s when she was in high school, although she’s also quite a bit older than my daughter- I’m not sure how they met, all I know is that they’re both rather harsh and liked to drink).
Her dad owned a home a couple hours from my place in Mexico and every couple years she used to go visit him from Canada. She called me once to ask if she could come stay with me for a few days. Her dad’s place was right in the middle of the village and she was being driven crazy by the roosters. She said there were about 100 roosters crowing right outside the house all night long. She’d manage to get to sleep for about 45 minutes and then they’d start up again. Her dad could sleep through anything and in the morning had asked her how she slept. She said "You didn’t hear me stand up in the middle of the night and scream “Fuck! Fuck!”?
That’s when she called me and said “Can I please come stay with you for a few days? I’ll clean your whole house, I’ll wash your windows, I’ll cook every meal and wash the dishes, I’ll do anything, I just need to get out of here and have a full nights’ sleep.”
Fox during mating season. You’d swear it was a huge cougar or mountain lion right under your window.
I’ve had several flocks of chickens in a suburb of LA. It is smart to get rid of the whole lot, as once when we got rid of our rooster, one of the hens started crowing in its place. We successfully donated our last flock to a local farm/CSA.
Yes, if you have no rooster, the top of the pecking order can assume that role!
I started a friend off with hens and she didn’t want a rooster…one girl became dominant and developed some bad behaviours. So that one comes to live with me for around 6 weeks a year to spend some time with the boys and maintain her egg laying habits.
Your last sentence surprised me. I expected soup.
Chickens can live for 25 years and these are beloved pets… so behaviour modification it is!
Well maybe they can live that long but 5-10 years is average, and a lot tend to die at 3 years in my experience. I have heard of a 18 year old chicken that is still kicking.
I have a 15 year old one who still lays occasionally, she is a Campine and her name is Bridget Bardot. It is the hybrids that we have developed that put on weight so quickly that their legs break and the egg machines that have the shortened life span and the miserable existence. Mine are slow growers, free rangers, come when they are called and live a long time!