How do I keep next door neighbor's free range roosters away

[Dar]

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its a bio hazard **NOTE TO THE OP** allowing the other animals over from the neighbor is asking for troubles... even tho you are right next to one another... i would try and keep your flock and yard as secure / closed as you can.. there are all kinds of nasty stuff that can come from outside flocks
https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=9241
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=196261
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=181490
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=211485


its unwanted poop from an animal thats not theirs

its more feed because he will want to eat too

I could go on but you get the point

 

[Dar]

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i could see if that WAS the issue but in a later post she wrote she likes to have the other animal over visiting.. has no problems with the goats or pigs just the roosters

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see she just has an issue with the roosters getting her chickens "pregnant"

for some they dont like or for religious or personal reasons cant have the eggs they eat fertilized

 

[Evelle]

that i also understand

 

[sourland]

Hens do not get 'knocked up'. Doesn't work that way in non mammalian species. And as others have already posted there is nothing wrong with eating fertile eggs. Three possible solutions come to mind. Ask the neighbor to keep his roosters home, put up fencing between the yards, keep your hens penned up. The roosters will not stay away voluntarily. The desire to pass on DNA (also known as sex) is a an indominatable force.

 

[bobbi-j]

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[centrarchid]

If I were in a similar situation, then fertile eggs would not be a concern in respect to consumption of eggs. Since CluckHeaven indicates an interest in free ranging hens, hens will make every effort to visit rooster(s) if rooster(s) can not visit them. I would ask neighbor to confine roosters for two weeks and get a very physically capable full adult rooster and introduce him to my flock of hens. The after two weeks are over release birds. Watch make certain fights do nto get too serious. I would expect my rooster through a variety of mechanisms to keep neighbor's roosters away from his hens. With 10 acre plots you also have enough acreage where you and your neighbor can influence where the flocks range as a function of where feed is applied. To incourage your flock away from direction of neighbors roosters, apply feed on side of your property away from those roosters.

 

[CluckHeaven]

I love that suggestion Centrachid!

Thanks everyone - lots of interesting discussion...

 

[Blue Ridge Hillbilly]

Cabela's sells an air rifle made by GAMO called the Silent Stalker Whisper IGT. It shoots a .177 caliber pellet and comes with a noise dampener. You could resolve your rooster problem and also use this gun to protect your flock from preditors and other harmful varmits.

 

[kla37]

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Very good advice! It's hard to fight mother nature. Don't worry about fertile eggs. There is absolutely no difference btn fertile and non-fertile eggs. I agree that having a rooster around is a big perk, they do a great job protecting hens!

 

[angie3881]

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Thank you. What is a knocked up hen??