Chicken lays at neighbors house

[Jjdesmo11]

Please help I don’t want to get rid of my hens. I let my 11 hens and 1 rooster free range during the day. I got most of my hens and rooster in the last year. But I originally had a small crew of hens that would go to my neighbors (where he had a rooster) and I have one specifically that always lays at the neighbors. The neighbors rooster is gone but now I have 1-2 hens that still go over there and lay daily. Aside from cooping what can I do? I went out of town and cooped for a week and that helped but now she is doing it again. The problem is my neighbor is incubating the eggs and hatching babies and continues to have “ baby roosters” one of which is fighting mine. Thanks

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

All you can do is pen your birds up.

 

[aart]

Too bad you didn't keep your birds confined before the neighbor hatched out more cock/erels.
Do their birds come into your yard too?

 

[starri33]

Do you have a fence around your property? you could use poultry fencing to help keep them in your yard, if they are flying over your fence, trim their wings.

 

[Jjdesmo11]

Too bad you didn't keep your birds confined before the neighbor hatched out more cock/erels.
Do their birds come into your yard too?

It’s quite the story but the long and short is my neighbor is an old guy with an incubator. When I was gifted 5 hens he had a rooster over at his house and they would free range over there. They all came back here at night. 1 or 2 laid there. But I was ok with it because I believe he enjoys them. He eventually gave us his rooster but they would free range at the neighbors during the day. Last summer he incubated 18 of my eggs and 4 months later he came over with 8 of “my chickens” Around that same time I also had a broody and got her chicks and one was a rooster. So I raised my rooster and then had to have 10 hens per roo and two separate coops. They all free ranged but “my flock” stayed here and the old flock stayed over there.
So the old rooster got fly strike and I sold 8 hens (mostly my broodies and the ones he brought over to me)
So we have long standing of back and forth and I was ok with it until im feeding and caring for them. I need to end this cycle by not allowing them to lay there. That’s way easier than telling this old man to stop sorry so long. Aren’t chicken stories always complicated?

 

[Jjdesmo11]

Do you have a fence around your property? you could use poultry fencing to help keep them in your yard, if they are flying over your fence, trim their wings.

I’ve thought about some sort of fence. We have 5 acres and we have 1/4 acre of wood between the yards. I would have to clip the wings that’s always a possibility. I would just sell them but it’s my original amerucana and my lavender orphington who I absolutely love! Thanks for the advice!

 

[starri33]

@Jjdesmo11 ,Your welcome, you don't need to fence off the whole property, they have electric poultry nets that you can get solar powered and just move it, after a couple of times of your birds getting zapped by the fence, they will change their minds about it, it will also help dissuade ground predators. They have mobile tractors as well that you could build for them and just move those around.

 

[aart]

Yep. sounds complicated, hard to end a relationship like that.
Have you tried to talk to him about it?

 

[sourland]

Good fences make for good neighbors.

 

[Jjdesmo11]

Good fences make for good neighbors.

yep!