Neighbor threatening me and another neighbor about chickens

[SIMPleChick]

Oh by the way...seeing that you are not the only person on your street with chickens, I think maybe it's time for a "town meetin'" Go to the other neighbors and tell them what this person has done and said to you, just to "warn" them about their animals...just in case, and get the other neighbors on your side and on the defense too! Maybe get together with the neighbors and show up at her house to "talk" about her threats and how to deal with things....That would be FUN!!!!

See what she thinks with 10 or more people at her door!

 

[Nicole01]

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Our coop is inside our garage. If someone cut through the wire and tried to pry open the coop door, they are out of luck. It's a heavy metal fire door. I bring the chickens in every night and lock all doors.

There is no way I could shoot an animal. That's out of the question. If my RIR turns out to be a rooster, I may keep him/her for a few weeks before rehoming. I'd prefer a bantam or show bird if I was going to keep a rooster. I've been posting the ordinance laws on my facebook, so she clearly knows we are allowed to have roosters and as many chickens as I want. It will be interesting to see how this all turns out.

 

[Nicole01]

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Wow! That is just awful!

 

[Iheartchicks<3:)]

Chicken.Lytle :

Give her nothing. NOTHING. You and your neighbors should shun her.

LOL

 

[GrannysRoost]

I would put up a fence or some hot wire ....no more worries...mine keeps my dogs in, others out, and my chickens safe... no worries

 

[epeloquin]

Posts like this make me realize how blessed I am. My coop is on 1/8 acre in the suburbs with three neighboring dwellings inside of 100ft. and none of my neighbors have complained in the least. In fact they're quite happy and intrigued about it! Of course my city doesn't allow roos so that probably helps.

 

[RiddleMe]

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I haven't read this whole thread but thought I'd throw out a comment wrt the bolded part - be careful letting them store stuff on your property, especially if they aren't the nicest of folks. Where I live, if someone uses your property, with or without permission, and you don't do anything to stop them, then after a certain period of time (years, not months) they can actually have a legal ownership claim to the property.

 

[darkmatter]

Neighbors.....what are ya going to do. Seems to be a common problem with new neighbors in the country not wanting to live and let live. I had an elderly couple move in within the quarter mile and proceed to populate their place with all the grandkids due to the parents being in jail! Before long the ATVs were tearing up the woods without any respect for property lines or plantings. Having only a brief discussion with them made me realize these folks would tear down any fence and retaliate for any imagined offense. I tried cutting down a few trees (for firewood) and leaving them for a while blocking the paths they were making on my land. They just made new paths. However-------using gloves and a machete, I removed a bucket full of locust thorns and scattered them in the weeds on my place. That worked----even those morons got tired of fixing flats everytime they entered that section of the woods. Loose neighbor dogs, yeah SSS works for a while, then they buy more to replace fido that didn't come home. 22LR are cheap and the shovel hardly had a chance to cool off one year. Well, I outlasted those neighbors, the grandkids put the grandparents in a home and sold off anything of value, including the house to a much nicer couple that likes my farm-eggs and orchard fruit. Heck, the wife even took up quilting! and joined the local club.

 

[TeriyakiChicken]

Shoot the dog.


Then shoot her....

 

[Anianna]

Nicole01... :

There is no way I could shoot an animal. ...

That's understandable. The trespass laws in your state make your neighbor responsible for triple any damages her dog causes on your property and, iirc, you have the right to take possession of her dog and call AC to come pick it up (I believe MN laws refer to this specifically as "distraint"). Also, if her dog bites any domestic animal, she can be fined $5 per day for every day she keeps the dog after that.

Honestly, she's probably just speaking out of frustration, though it certainly was inappropriate. I hope it all works out without a fight or harm done. I wouldn't fuss and fight with the neighbor, it will just escalate things, but certainly stand your legal ground.

If I were you, I would look into loss regarding her use of your property, also. Even with your permission, there may be certain legal actions she can take against you or your property because of her use of your property. In many states, if you are permitted to use a property in certain ways over a certain period of time, it gives you certain rights to that property. Please be sure you are familiar with any of those ramifications that might exist in your state before deciding whether you will continue to allow this neighbor to stores stuff on your property. If she has a sense of entitlement, she may not hesitate to hold you liable for her property or make claims against your property.

We nearly lost a large chunk of property because we had allowed a neighboring farmer to let his cows come on our property instead of asking him to fence them in. I liked having the cows around, but the farmer felt some sense of entitlement to our property and started treating it like his own. We ended up having to go to court to get him off, but the judge was his buddy and it turned into a huge fight that got him an easement on our property even though he had no need for it. We lost money on that property when we moved because of that easement, too.​