Children trespassing

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Orrrrrr... "children left unattended will be given a chicken. A very cranky, poopy chicken."


Heeeeyyyyy!!! Maybe we have found a way to get rid of all those unwanted roos! BWAAHAAAHAAAA!!!!

 

[FrenchHen]

or a duck.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

one round with my gander would teach 'em for sure!

 

[The Poultry Peanut]

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Who won the suit?

 

[Chicken Fruit]

You know, among all this, has anyone considered that if the parents can seem to win the battle with their out of control kids that neither will anyone else?

I dont pick fights with kids, theyre all looking for one these days- even at little ages. i find its simpler to just include them in on my world, since thats what theyre lacking at home these days anyway.

you start fighting with them, with hot wires, sprinklers, teenagers, and what not pretty soon you're the place in the neighborhood all the kids team up to pick at.

We have a guy like that in our neighborhood. Everyone here has always gotten on all with all feral children- we all parent them in our own way because theres just so many of them unsupervised all the time, and plus its just the decent thing to do. It makes to sense to punish them for being irritating when its the parents who are the real issue. Anyway, this one guy moved his family in here and made it a point to yell at the kids to stay away, to quiet down, to stop this stop that, called the police umpteen times, and let me tell you what- he's about this close to moving his family out of here.

Come cabbage night and haloween those kids just totally ruin his place every year.

The thing is, I pop my head out the door at 1030 pm when theyre noisy and obnoxious, call down the road to them and remind them theres babies sleeping, and low and behold they turn off the music, drive away, and go elsewhere.

Keep your enemies close, and you'll have fewer troubles.

 

[Intheswamp]

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Be careful, some of the little league moms or dads might be on the city council

, or whatever, and decide it's too dangerous for livestock to be in such close quarters to the baseball field. Politics can be a very nasty arena.

And yes, a Philiadelphia lawyer and an injured kid equals...lawsuit. The tenet being that *you* should have had such a "dangerous animal" confined within a suitable pen/fence/etc.,...especially being in close proximity to a known concentration of children. An innocent kid isn't responsible even if he did climb over a fence that had "no trespassing" signs on it.

Juries these days can be very STUPID .

Ed

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Amosunknown- Please don't misunderstand me. I like children. I like them enough to not want my rooster to peck their little eyes out. The children that I invite to my house and the children that I work with all understand that chickens are wonderful creatures and they learn all about their habits and characteristics. Children LOVE coming to see me. I am, quite frankly, univerally beloved (not to toot my own horn, but toot toot).

What I don't love are parents that don't parent their children. My roosters hurting the children is my concern. Why aren't the parents concerned that they don't know where their children are? Why aren't they concerned that their kids are talking to a total stranger? For all they know I am an axe murderer and I'm slipping their sweet kiddies candy with razor blades embedded in it. It would be one thing if this was a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone else. But it is not. I live out in the county and none of these people know me. They don't even know that I'm a really nice woman and not some creepy old freak with a penchant for children.

My argument here is not with the children. They are merely doing what children do. Once I was sure that my rooster wasn't going to go for him, I moved yesterday's boy away from the coops and had a lovely conversation about rhode island reds and other breeds of chickens. He was delightful and clearly interested in chickens. I certainly was not an ogre or witch to the child. Once he was safe we chatted and had a fine time. My concern is that one day some kid will wander over, I won't be paying attention because I am doing yard chores and the kid will get too close to my roosters WHO ARE ONLY DOING THEIR JOB IN THEIR OWN PERSONAL YARD.

I'm not hating on children here. I'm trying to figure a logical way to keep them safe since clearly their parents don't care.

 

[vfem]

I went to lowe's yesterday and asked if that had bushes with HUGE prickers.... the kind you couldn't fish out of your skin with tweezers if you tried!!! I don't want no stinking rose bush either... I want it to look nasty and scary!!!!

Apparently, they don't have them there.... going to ask the local nursery next! Then I'm going to rip up all the pretty azealas by the hill next to the pond and plant them by the dozens!!!!!

Then I'll just sit on my deck and wait for those kids with the nasty attitudes to come back.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

Vfem, you are cracking me up. I can just see the expression on the Lowe's guy's face. "Prickly with thorns the size of knifeblades? Ummmm... I dunno. Let me go see."

My mom suggested planting barberry bushes. I already have a couple of little ones and I do love them. They stay reddish brown all year long and have lovely prickly thorns. In spring they put out tiny white flowers and their leaves are a nice reddish purple color. Lovely! Unfortunately, to plant a hedge of them across my front yard would take more money than I have to spend. Grrr....

 

[vfem]

I thought about blackberries... but they would brave the prickers to eat my berries!!!