I live in a village near the city. Lots of trees, bamboo, some grassy patches, a funky quiet lane...
...but in back of my room, down the slope near the creek, one person is keeping several jumbo fighting roosters outside in the yard... For the past six months, I have not noticed anything, and don't really care. But lately, the smell of rooster excrements and urine has occasionally found its way up the hill from the bottom of the backyard... I am renting my room in the forward block from the same people renting the rooster rooms down below. It's all one big property...
Obviously, I can just move. But, I am concerned for public health reasons. There are young children and some old women down there. I am thinking they must be in misery everyday. The annoying thing is, the actual owner of the fighting cocks doesn't even live in the rooms -- only his son's ex-wife. That doesn't seem to add up, but that's the situation. The owner is an older guy who comes by every day or two to look at the animals and his grand kids. He definitely lives elsewhere, as does his daughter-in-law's ex, whom I have never seen... I have shared a few beers and chat with them now and then... But the rooster stench is making me stay away these days, lol...
Any practical suggestions..? Besides, obviously, doing nothing, shrugging, and moving out. I suppose I could poison the roosters, but that might be hard to get away with anonymously... I am saying this because it is REALLY VERY obnoxiously rank down there: the bad odor! ...I really pity the poor neighbors: there are three families down there, two of whom are unrelated to the off-site owner of the roosters.... These poor people are forced to endure the stench, which gets worse at night for some reason... I am aware that rooster fighting is also illegal, but was told that the cockpit is right in the middle of Sihanoukville, some ways south of the main market on the way to Otres...
Can I report this as a public health hazard to any relevant authority? I can ask the landlord to do something... but... maybe, maybe... it is just too much to expect it might occur to the landlord that it isn't healthy for the poor children down there. And they are getting rent from the old rooster bum's daughter-in-law, too...
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Fighting roosters is illegal but keeping them isn't. There are usually laws about keeping animals in cities, but it sounds like this is semi-rural. Try complaining to the landlord but you'll probably just have to move somewhere less smelly.
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The bird droppings need to be cleared away.
The Ammonia build up is not good for the birds or people
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Simplified version http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/ammonia-burn
The Ammonia build up is not good for the birds or people
https://www.poultryworld.net/Breeders/H ... WP008071W/
Simplified version http://www.poultrydvm.com/condition/ammonia-burn
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This link has some other ways to try to combat the ammonia concentration. https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside. ... treatment/
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