Noisy ducks v unhappy neighbours trial adjourned A French court trial which pits unhappy neighbours against the owners of noisy ducks is adjourned until October 1. A lawyer for the defendants has billed the trial a "legitimate" fight "to defend rurality". The latest case to ruffle feathers in the French countryside, after the owner of a French rooster was hauled before a court over its rowdy crowing, pits a woman rearing around 50 ducks and geese in her back garden in the southwestern Landes region -- a duck-breeding bastion -- against her newcomer neighbours. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES