I am so fed up with our neighbor out back! Since the guy moved in, he's been nothing but trouble. The latest crime...tonight, he had a fire going out back of his house (aprox. 1/4 mile), and he had a huge tractor tire in the middle of it! I called the local public safety dispatch and reported that when I let my dog out, I smelled burning rubber and my neighbor had a fire going. When I went into the house, I got my binoculars out and confirmed my suspicion! Well, the Fire dept showed up, along with a police cruiser....and they just left a few minutes ago. My wife, poor thing, suffers from asthma, and just breathing that in from the walk from her car into the house, sent her into an asthma attack. I gave her inhaler to her, and she also needed an albuterol nebulizer. After DW was stable, I went out and checked the chickens who were all sound asleep, roosting in their coop. I'll be keeping an eye out, though, because they were exposed to that for who knows how long!
This is just one incident in a whole line of things. Mostly his lack of livestock management as he's allowed his Highlander cattle (small herd of about 15) to roam off his property because he won't put a decent fence up. He's got rebar stakes with two strands of electric fencing, but he claims (when I complained that it wasn't working and proved it by touching it) that someone was messing with his fence and grounding it out. He grounded it out himself when he wrapped the wire around the plastic holder and then around the rebar as a fix for a spot his cattle broke through. Last summer, they came onto my property, and decimated my garden! At least it was the end of summer and I'd harvested most everything....except for my pumpkins!
Heck, the day he showed up, I went out to be neighborly because I'd seen him looking at property lines, so I brought my own list of property pin locations and showed him.....then later that day, he tried moving one of my pins 3 feet back so that he could "take" the hand-dug well that was in that corner.
So, I hope my chickens don't suffer from this incident. I think the wind was blowing hard enough.
What are some signs I should look for? I would guess trouble breathing...but not sure what else. I'll see what I can find online.
Fortunately, the guy has been foreclosed and should be evicted soon.
This is just one incident in a whole line of things. Mostly his lack of livestock management as he's allowed his Highlander cattle (small herd of about 15) to roam off his property because he won't put a decent fence up. He's got rebar stakes with two strands of electric fencing, but he claims (when I complained that it wasn't working and proved it by touching it) that someone was messing with his fence and grounding it out. He grounded it out himself when he wrapped the wire around the plastic holder and then around the rebar as a fix for a spot his cattle broke through. Last summer, they came onto my property, and decimated my garden! At least it was the end of summer and I'd harvested most everything....except for my pumpkins!
Heck, the day he showed up, I went out to be neighborly because I'd seen him looking at property lines, so I brought my own list of property pin locations and showed him.....then later that day, he tried moving one of my pins 3 feet back so that he could "take" the hand-dug well that was in that corner.
So, I hope my chickens don't suffer from this incident. I think the wind was blowing hard enough.
What are some signs I should look for? I would guess trouble breathing...but not sure what else. I'll see what I can find online.
Fortunately, the guy has been foreclosed and should be evicted soon.
