Cant keep my Free Range Turkeys's out of my neighbors yard....HELP!!!!

[JeffroDull]

Well, according to many other threads on here your neighbor should shoot 'em, bury 'em, and not worry about it any more.

 

[northernbiggame]

What about buying a blow horn for my neighbor????? HONK!!!!!!!

 

[Eggs4Sale]

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That would just rile me that's for sure. If I'm expected to run outside and honk at a turkey every time it comes on my property, or stop tending my horses... No, that won't do. It's your job, not his. If you don't agree with any of the solutions we've come up with and only come up with a blow horn, then you're going to have a VERY angry neighbor who will SSS. I don't mean to sound mean, I'm just trying to be realistic. He hates your turkeys, and you don't want him to hate you, too.

 

[northernbiggame]

Thank you for all the help......

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

If it bothers the neighbors then you have an obligation to fence them in. We free roam everything in my neck of the woods, dogs included, but I live around people who all practice this and it bothers no one so we all do it but if we had someone move in that didn't like the way we do things then we would have to contain our critters.....until we could run them out of town

Good Luck - The most poop gets a Thanksgiving turkey - THAT is a cute one!

 

[ivan3]

Turks are often too curious and social for their own good. They need fencing. Granted, a few will take flight (six foot is pretty effective), but most will stay put.

If not the neighbor, some pred with no such polite scruples (they did let you know) will appear to tear up your investment.

Just a cautionary tale from this neck of the woods (about eleven miles North as the crow flies):

The farm where the Ryland house sits was a crime scene in the early 20th century.

According to accounts in the weekly Higbee News, 53-year-old William Ryland on July 30, 1917, sent a servant to call on next-door neighbor William Roberts to ask him to keep his turkeys out of the Ryland yard because the turkeys were eating corn Ryland put out for his hogs.

Roberts did not appreciate the suggestion and ran to Ryland’s farm.

But Ryland ran him off with a breast yoke, as the neighbor uttered a "vile epithet," the Higbee paper reported.

Roberts went home, grabbed a double-barreled shotgun and went back to settle the score. Ryland, who was holding an ax, thought his neighbor was bluffing as Roberts approached with the gun raised.

"Roberts fired both barrels, filling Ryland’s body from his knees to his neck full of shot, said to be No.4s, and killing him instantly," the newspaper reported. "Following the shooting, he surrendered to the officers."

From: http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2007/sep/20070922news006.asp​

 

[chickenannie]

You can put a fence around, then clip their flight wings (every three weeks cuz they re-grow) so they can't fly over it. Just clip one wing (it makes them fly in a circle. Careful though because I did that but then a fox was able to get them at night because they couldn't roost very high. I ended up having to pen them up at night even with the clipped wing.

 

[Big C]

You should put up a fence.
What if he let his dog or horses free range?