Help, the nicest neighbors in the world are feeding my chickens...

[Davaroo]

So someone gets a little agitated, or is cranky. It happens.
Thicken up the skin and move ahead.

A good point is did the OP get some sort of direction out of all this?
I sort of lost just what the OP really wanted to do about the matter, in the end.

 

[chicamama]

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Yes, I got GREAT advice from here. I spoke with my neighbors today and we all agreed if the *ladies* are going to come and visit they will not feed them after lunch. We're going to try that, or, no food at all. Today those little brats would not come home around supper becuase they were STUFFED (we did not talk until after the fact

). So, tomorrow will be the first time we try this. I may just leave them locked up for a few days and then try it? I hate the idea of them not being able too free range during the day. They really love it.

 

[amazondoc]

I'm sorry if some folks think I'm "aggressive". Can somebody just explain to me -- how can it be okay to let your chickens roam loose onto someone else's property, if it is not okay to let your dogs roam loose?

 

[Davaroo]

Its okay, doc. Let it go....

 

[dacjohns]

I have the same problem at times doc. Different threads approach the same subject from different angles. Some threads it's kill all the predators, other threads it's save the whales.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

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Hey, I only had problems with those chicken-murdering whales last year. This year has been all smooth sailing.

-Kim

 

[PurpleChicken]

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If my neighbor has chickens, and I enjoy and give my approval for them to range
on my land, then it is ok. It's that simple. The same applies to dogs.

This was not what the original poster asked. Most posts do go off topic but if you
take a post off topic it should be done diplomatically. I've taken plenty of posts
off topic with my opinionated or just stupid comments.


As for closing out this thread I wouldn't worry too much. I have no doubt the moderators
are watching very closely.

 

[jacyjones]

I had a problem with a neighbour who fed my chickens. She bought a sack of corn and fed them over the fence on my land to start off with as she liked to see them feeding. I did not know this was happening until I lost a bird and found it in her garden. She then told me what she was doing - she was actively encouraging them to fly over the fence by this stage. I asked her not to feed but she took no notice. However........when she planted her garden with luscious young plants then she suddenly did not want my girls to visit and gave me the rest of the corn. We raised the height of the fence and they soon stopped calling when the food stopped coming!!

 

[chicamama]

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Thanks again for the help on my original question above. Today is day one of no neighbors feeding treats. I'll keep ya posted. Not sure how long it will take for the ladies (er, chickens) to get the hint! I'm almost tempted to leave them in their pen for today?

 

[amazondoc]

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I would agree with you if there were some sort of fence enclosing your land and your neighbors', so that the birds couldn't go anywhere else. But that is not the case here. Those birds are roaming just as much as an unleashed dog is.

In fact, I am now wondering whether she is breaking "leash" laws by allowing her birds to roam. I suppose that depends on whether she lives in an area that *has* leash laws; but since she mentioned a cul de sac, that sounds like perhaps a suburb or development, so there probably is.

This was not what the original poster asked. Most posts do go off topic but if you
take a post off topic it should be done diplomatically. I've taken plenty of posts
off topic with my opinionated or just stupid comments.

Diplomacy is in the eye of the beholder.

This is a discussion forum, so discussion is going to happen. Any poster should expect disagreements to happen. Heck, this would be a mighty boring place if everyone agreed with everyone else about everything. It is not automatically "mean" or "aggressive" or whatever just to express a viewpoint that differs with the OP's. Heck, just look at all the opinions I got in my gun thread.

And no, I don't think talking about fencing is off topic at all when the issue is roaming animals. It seems quite relevant to me.​