- Apr 17, 2013
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So my family was given some baby chicks and ducks as an Easter gift. They were so cute and small...but that didn't last long. One week they were living the life of luxury in their spacious brooding house we built for them, then all of a sudden they needed even more room! (mainly the ducks) So, we added on to the brooding house giving them an extra room to hang out. This was only enough room for about another week though. Also, we give them time to freely roam around the backyard everyday. They are just now getting their feathers and starting to jump and flutter around.
After much research and price shopping, we decided to build our own chicken run and and attach it to the brooding house (which will become a nesting house). While we were in the backyard, chickens and duckies freely roaming about, and building the new run, my neighbor came over to fence to tell us that her friend wants to call the humane society on us because our chickens were in a "cage" when she looked into our backyard. What!!? Really? She said she works for a spay and neuter clinic, so I guess this makes her a backyard poultry expert and we are obviously not living up to her standards. Of course, we are the only people (that I know of) that have chickens in this neighborhood, so we have had a lot curious people stopping by to have a look and ask questions. This is just the first person I met that had a negative opinion about it. She said "don't they peck at your children? and won't your dog eat them?" I simply told her no, that they are nice pets and the kids love them and so does my dog. My dog has actually lived with chickens before, so she's used to them. Then I picked up one of the ducks so she could pet him, and she stepped back saying that she was scared he would peck her.
Who else has had a neighbor like this?? And how do you deal with it??
After much research and price shopping, we decided to build our own chicken run and and attach it to the brooding house (which will become a nesting house). While we were in the backyard, chickens and duckies freely roaming about, and building the new run, my neighbor came over to fence to tell us that her friend wants to call the humane society on us because our chickens were in a "cage" when she looked into our backyard. What!!? Really? She said she works for a spay and neuter clinic, so I guess this makes her a backyard poultry expert and we are obviously not living up to her standards. Of course, we are the only people (that I know of) that have chickens in this neighborhood, so we have had a lot curious people stopping by to have a look and ask questions. This is just the first person I met that had a negative opinion about it. She said "don't they peck at your children? and won't your dog eat them?" I simply told her no, that they are nice pets and the kids love them and so does my dog. My dog has actually lived with chickens before, so she's used to them. Then I picked up one of the ducks so she could pet him, and she stepped back saying that she was scared he would peck her.
Who else has had a neighbor like this?? And how do you deal with it??
