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We have a very nice family that lives next door. The parents are natives of Vietnam, and speak broken English. They have five children who are 12, 10, 9, 4 and 4 - obviously incuding a set of twins. For Easter, they gave their children nine cute and fuzzy baby chicks. Over the summer, we have watched those baby chicks grow into HUGE chickens - 4 hens and a rooster. Thank goodness there aren't nine of them. Keep in mind, we live in the CITY! There are 7 houses within a stone's throw. These chicken aren't in a coop. They just wander all around the fenced-in yard. The parents told us recently that they keep the rooster in the garage at night so he won't wake up the neighborhood. They have found themselves in a difficult situation: What to do with the chickens? 
This weekend, the chickens got out of the back yard, and Rob helped round them up! I was in the house cooking dinner....if only I had the camera. The boys loved watching him help the neighbors run down all the chickens. I would have let the oncoming traffic take care of them. There nothing like hearing "Cock-a-doodle-doo" at 6 AM!Since the parents don't want to kill the chickens, I've tried to offer suggestions on what to do - take them to the dairy farm at UT, maybe my sister-in-law, Rebecca, might want them on her FARM.
This situation reminds me of a post by Josh Harris a few months back.
I'll take my neighbors 3 dogs wandering the neighborhood over a rooster waking me up at 6am any day! At least I know when a stranger comes in to the neighborhood. I feel like they're MY watch dogs now. It's gotten better now that the dogs like us and we like them. Except when they leave poop in our yard.