CRANBERRY TWP — A Cranberry resident's struggle with his neighbor's poultry continues, he told supervisors Thursday.

After visiting the board in June, Dennis Davis played additional recordings of his neighbor's roosters screaming at all hours of the day and asked why there hadn't yet been a resolution to his problem.

Davis claimed township staff had told him they would be unable to remove his neighbor's roosters because of a state Department of Agriculture regulation.

That, he said, was poppycock. Davis claimed he couldn't find any agricultural regulation pertaining to chickens. Instead, Davis said, he found nuisance animal regulations promoted by the township.

Again posing the question of whether the situation would be different if his neighbors had incessantly barking dogs rather than constant cock-a-doodle-dos, Davis, claiming he can only get three-and-a-half hours of sleep a night due to the chickens, asked the board to address the poultry problem.

Supervisor John Skorupan asked Davis if he'd spoken with his neighbor, to which Davis responded by saying he calls the police because he didn't want to intrude on his neighbor's property, which is several acres in size.

Immediately after that question, Davis went back into his chicken complaint. Why, he asked, can't the township make the screeching stop?

While a rooster repercussion is in theory simple, a chicken charge is much more complicated in reality.

Township staff said, in addition to the agricultural regulation, they'd spoken with the neighbor, who informed them of the complications. The neighbor's child, who lives at the property, has a disability that is aided by the roosters.

“The rooster is a support animal for their autistic child,” manager Dan Santoro said.

That revelation didn't deter Davis, who again compared the chickens to other support animals. Surely, the township would step in if a support dog were constantly crying, he hypothesized.

Staff again pledged to look into the situation, and Davis exited the meeting following his remarks.