Random Chicken Drop Off

[MickWithChicks]

Yep! A bantam white rooster of some breed was dumped on us last weekend. 4 Roosters here already, and two flocks of full sized breeds. I don't need a banty roo at the moment.

He's very elusive and I haven't been able to catch him yet. He didn't show up this morning; maybe a fox had breakfast.

 

[Ebony Rose]

I've tried getting rid of roosters here. It's like trying to give away excess zucchini.

Mmmmm, zucchini bread!

 

[ScarletinaVixen]

Yes. All manner of animals, including turtles and pet rats in an aquarium. I love rats (conversation for a different time) but there is a reason they are used in medical research (HINT: not because they are hardy against diseases). I resolved the worst parts of this problem by leaving travel crates and off the ground wire cages between the beginning of my property line and where my animals are housed. Now, people leave animals in one or more carrier/cage and I am able to decide WTH to do with them before disease spreads. I will note that it also has resulted in neighbors asking if they can borrow a crate to take a stray puppy/ injured rabbit / feral cat to the vet/rehab/animal control rather than it becoming my problem. They havent stolen the crates (just my address sign...which doesnt even have their address...) and much of the issue has been resolved. It's more like we are a team handling a minor portion of animal welfare rather than me becoming a sort of statue of liberty for every limping opossum people can lock in my fence.

 

[Searsmom]

Would be blatant trespassing here with all my fences and gates.

Exactly. Same here.

Mmmmm, zucchini bread!

 

[Searsmom]

So, in other posts, I was told it was time to make friends with my neighbors. I'm posting this here because I don't want to disrupt that thread and I needed to wait to respond.
Those neighbors used to be friends, but then her husband wanted to go in with a buddy of his and use some of our land for a garden. I posted about this elsewhere. He got cancer after the land was tilled and before planting. As a favor to him, we planted it, expecting his buddy to help. No such luck, so taking care of an enormous plot alone. I honestly don't remember how big, something like 80 x 60. I knew she like beans, so picked a big basketful and brought them to her, since she never came over, and was told I needed to do that for the buddy. I used to visit just to talk and got lectured about how bad my oldest daughter was and how my neighbor sympathized with me - which shocked me no end because my daughter and I always had a great relationship and were more like friends. There were other incidents but it was too stressful for me at the time, being a polite person, to deal with constant talks down to me. Just not on the same wavelength and raised differently. So I stopped visiting, but checked in periodically after her husband died. Went over the year we had -4 temps to make sure she had heat and was ok. Her house burned down about a year ago and she bought camper trailers for herself and two families she had staying with her. I brought her a cup of tea and some clothes that morning and to see what I could do for her. I passed the family that was living with her at the time and said I was so sorry they had to go through this and was glad they were all safe. They all sneered at me and turned their backs. Since then, one of the families bought 2 large dogs to live with them in their tiny 20' camper. Those dogs were never tethered or fenced or inside, we're a leash law county, and a main highway runs between us. Those dogs terrorized my chickens for 3 months before both were hit by cars and left on the side of the road. Our front fence has been "rolled" and now a rooster dropped off.
So no, now is not time to meet the neighbors.

 

[member 512732]

So, while I was at the store, someone brought a rooster on my property and shut it in my chicken house.

First off, disease.
Second, I have two roosters.
Third, all my chickens and roosters are full size, this was a bantam.
Fourth, I've got 4-H chicks going out there in two weeks.
Fifth, animal control had a good laugh.

Needless to say, irritated beyond belief. I had to cull it. I hate culling with a passion. Not fair to me, not fair to the rooster.

Anybody ever had this happen?

Honestly, it just proved my theory that in this backwoods county, people are too inbred to be quite human.

Never heard of it..but I wonder why people call it culling and not killing...kind of like why they fuzz out the killing of animals on the news but no problem showing them as cooked food. I prefer chickens over humans any day of the week.

 

[Searsmom]

Never heard of it..but I wonder why people call it culling and not killing...kind of like why they fuzz out the killing of animals on the news but no problem showing them as cooked food. I prefer chickens over humans any day of the week.

Because it hurts me to kill. It's not enjoyable, but my other options were to watch it be killed by another rooster, which is slow and painful,or put it in quarantine, which is where my daughters chicks are going shortly, thus gambling that he didn't have a disease that her 13 4-H show chicks wouldn't catch and die from.

So no, I'm not killing, because that's random and cruel. I'm culling for safety.

 

[aart]

but I wonder why people call it culling and not killing

To cull means to 'remove from a group'....doesn't always mean killing.

 

[Searsmom]

It's self preservation for me

 

[ScarletinaVixen]

So, in other posts, I was told it was time to make friends with my neighbors. I'm posting this here because I don't want to disrupt that thread and I needed to wait to respond.
Those neighbors used to be friends, but then her husband wanted to go in with a buddy of his and use some of our land for a garden. I posted about this elsewhere. He got cancer after the land was tilled and before planting. As a favor to him, we planted it, expecting his buddy to help. No such luck, so taking care of an enormous plot alone. I honestly don't remember how big, something like 80 x 60. I knew she like beans, so picked a big basketful and brought them to her, since she never came over, and was told I needed to do that for the buddy. I used to visit just to talk and got lectured about how bad my oldest daughter was and how my neighbor sympathized with me - which shocked me no end because my daughter and I always had a great relationship and were more like friends. There were other incidents but it was too stressful for me at the time, being a polite person, to deal with constant talks down to me. Just not on the same wavelength and raised differently. So I stopped visiting, but checked in periodically after her husband died. Went over the year we had -4 temps to make sure she had heat and was ok. Her house burned down about a year ago and she bought camper trailers for herself and two families she had staying with her. I brought her a cup of tea and some clothes that morning and to see what I could do for her. I passed the family that was living with her at the time and said I was so sorry they had to go through this and was glad they were all safe. They all sneered at me and turned their backs. Since then, one of the families bought 2 large dogs to live with them in their tiny 20' camper. Those dogs were never tethered or fenced or inside, we're a leash law county, and a main highway runs between us. Those dogs terrorized my chickens for 3 months before both were hit by cars and left on the side of the road. Our front fence has been "rolled" and now a rooster dropped off.
So no, now is not time to meet the neighbors.

One thing I have seen in an undying pattern is that neighbors like yours end up moving away when you least expect it. Or, in the case of the neighbor that used to scream at me because I put my trash out early in the evening the day before pick-up... catch a crazy weird fungus in the brain and die within a month. The universe has a way of finding that imbalance and forcibly balancing it. So, do not balance it yourself by resorting to their behaviors. (You seem like good people and wouldn't even dream of it anyway.) Leave the imbalance of their behavior and yours. Things will change. Every time.