Neighbor threatening to "take out my roosters"

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I'd holler-HEy you, ya you, whatcha looking at, what ya want some of this. just kidding, right you gotta get the accent right

 

[remuda1]

How's it going with neighborzilla?

 

[AmyLM]

Seriously, no right to farm paper in your purchase contract?
We are in the process of buying a farmette, and that was one paper the county makes the agent add to the contract to homes in rural areas in this state. I laughed because I was all, "WHY would you buy property in a rural area if you were bugged by any of that?" but my agent said it happens often enough that they added this one bit of paper. Basically, it forewarns people about smells, sounds, outdoor sex, etc, that accompanies living in farm country.
I'd be digging around looking for that, just to see if something like thst exists in your state, but I think everything else you have done has been perfectly handled, and him calling the humane society blew up in his face, lol. It must chap his hide something awful.
I'll be watching for further developments, but I bet he just huffs and puffs from now on.

GOD how pathetic is that?!? You know the real reason for it right?? Its all those city people who have this thing in their head that being in the country is like peaceful, quite and idyllic. They move out here after selling their suburban sprawl HOA pads or their city tower condos expecting the stuff they see in the movies. Not the sounds, smells, and reality of rural life! They don't understand that the rural areas are where all the food the eat and the cloths they wear comes from. People here actually WORK for a living... not sit in a little box and type all day. When rural life doesn't meet their expect ions and when rural people aren't willing to bow to their complaints they then turn to harassing the county to change the laws. And because the counties are too afraid of being sued by these rich city people... they then change the laws.

As far as I'm concerned my own crazy 'golf course lawn' neighbor can sit on his side of our brand new 6 foot tall fence and pout all he wants! Because the funniest part... the other neighbor we share a fence line with.. got MAD when we got rid of our rooster... why? She told me whats the point of living in the rural areas if you don't have a rooster for an alarm clock LMAO.... We have been giving her free veggies ever since

 

[oldrooster]

In my area there is a race track been in operation for over 100 years, grandfathered from zoning because there was none at that time every few years a new housing addition goes up and the lots are sold either in the early spring or late fall so the idiots who don't drive around in a 5 mile or so circle from the addition and see there is a track there and oh my race cars make noise on a weekend night? and you mean there is a traffic before and after such an event? who would think of that when buying a house? Same holds true for our local airport, you mean there will be noise and lights from low flying planes near and airport? NO WAY!!!!!!!!! thankfully our fairgrounds and a large park border it on one side as a buffer so idiots aren't likely to gripe about those being used.

 

[ignatz]

Yeah, they sure do eat ticks, in my own experience. They prefer to patrol and find them on their own, I'm sure.

They are aggressive toward chickens, though, so that is why I rehomed mine, however, I do plan to have them again, specifically because when I did, tick numbers around the house went way down. I live in the woods. If I had 20 acres and other livestock like Kathryn, I'd definitely not be without them if I could house them away from the chicken coop.

They are most definitely LOUD! You get used to it, though. The neighbor may not, LOL.

You actually saw, for a fact, one eat a tick eh? You were close enough to see *exactly* that small of a bug, in the grass (or whatever) get plucked *fast* by a bird? You knew right where to look and see the little tick crawling around before the bird snatched it up? Why do I doubt this so seriously that I'm dismissing it outright?

I live directly in the middle of the woods, 3 open acres, 3/4 acre pond, the rest 13 acres of west TN woods. Prime tick country. Our other house we were in the middle of 125 acres of woods, still in west TN. There was and is absolutely zero chance for you to prove without a doubt that just because you had/have guineas that that's the reason ticks are low at any time of the year or years. If you want to just base your statement on pure guesstimations and speculations, which is what it is, I'll counter it by saying that this year, being guinea-free, our tick population is *down* greatly. How can this be if you're trying to tell me I'm absolutely wrong about guineas? It sure isn't because "...they prefer to find them on their own..." because our guineas, and also the chickens, would come and eat bugs from my fingers (just not at the same time), or, if the bug was almost dead and not going to get away from the palm of my hand...and five to ten ticks, very much alive mixed with some of them pinched just enough to only have their legs waving in the air a little bit, were absolutely ignored by *both* species of birds.

Besides, what is so hard about hearing that my experiments prove everything I'm saying? Why don't *you* do it and see for yourself, instead of just tossing out an opinion, which is all it is? Good grief, it's simple grade-school science, for criminy sake.

 

[speckledhen]

ignatz, please, let's not stay on this tangent. If you want to debate the guinea/tick thing, the Guinea forum is the best place for it. Let's not take Kathryn's thread off course again.

 

[oldrooster]

Thank you Speckeledhen

 

[The Big Dog]

My

 

[oldrooster]

Saw this on another thread and had to share it here

 

[creekside2012]

Saw this on another thread and had to share it here

I so want one of those.