Pensioner loses bitter legal fight to keep three roosters in quiet suburb

Suburbia’s war on the rooster has claimed another victim, with a South Australian pensioner ordered to get rid of his three “therapeutic” birds after a court found their relentless crowing was likely “intolerable” for neighbours.The explosive case has thrown a spotlight on a growing suburban battleground across Australia, where urban sprawl is swallowing once semirural communities and pushing old backyard traditions out of rapidly densifying neighbourhoods.It comes as a disability pensioner from Adelaide’s outer north has lost a bitter legal fight to keep his three pet roosters, with South Australia’s Environment, Resources and Development Court ruling the birds had no place in a quiet residential pocket.MORE NEWS$100m eBay bid for Woolworths Ooshie stuns AustraliaWaste authority quietly bans dog poo from green bins‘Can’t fit a tennis ball’: Family fumes over new buildThe Adelaide Plains Council took the man to court after receiving multiple complaints from neighbours who said the birds’ crowing shattered the peace from early morning and throughout the day.A disability pensioner has lost his fight to keep three pet roosters at his Adelaide Plains property after the Environment, Res...