Owner of geese and ducks to defend flock in court after neighbour says the animals ‘bother him’

Less than two months after the owner of a French rooster was hauled before a court over its rowdy crowing, the owner of a gaggle of geese and ducks is in the dock over their boisterous quacking.

The latest case to ruffle feathers in the French countryside pitted a woman rearing around 50 ducks and geese in her back garden in the south-western Landes region – a duck-breeding bastion – against her newcomer neighbours.