the pest is my neighbor

[Chicken man76]

We live in the country with a split driveway/easement. When he drive by the birds he speeds up sometimes as if to hit them. Can he get in trouble for killing one? What are csn I do I they have 5 acres to run that is mine so we have plengy of room to free range. He is just an *** he thinks he can do things like this because he has the $ to do as he pleases.his wife is fine we are friends still.

 

[TOP KNOT]

I used to live on a shared roadway....never again. Ask him if he would like you to speed up when you see their pets or...him. Really shared things like drives and wells etc. never works out. Can you unshare the drive? Relocate yours to a different place.

 

[Chicken man76]

I could but that wouldnt help with him trying to hit them when they are free ranging. We have almost come to blows before thats why he wont talk to me anymore

 

[thomasboyle]

Someone wrote a poem about good fences making good neighbors. Can you put up a net fence to keep your birds out of the driveway? Seems like it would be easier than fighting with the neighbor, and quite a bit cheaper than putting in a new driveway.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

Robert Frost wrote that poem about good fences make good neighbours. I hope yours develops a conscience. Maybe you could work with his wife to educate him somewhat.

 

[Chicken man76]

All good suggestions but our driveway is a 1/4 mile long so that wont help we're not fightinging over that he just trys to hit the birds to be an *** and doesnt think there eill be any consequences his wife buys eggs from me every week.

 

[Chicken man76]

The birds free range out in the farm fields so going over to his side is unstoppable

 

[orumpoultry]

MENDING WALL

Robert Frost
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."

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[orumpoultry]

Basically, even though you want to free range... That drive way will keep causing problems. Its easier, and cheaper, to just put up a fence along the drive way. My fence line for my chickens is 1misq so I feel your pain. But, its what had to be done to keep the neighbors happy. To keep my happy. You know? They free range on six acres, but the neighbors didn't like their occasional visits and hung dead birds along my fence line. I repaired it last year when I no longer had chickens. When the chickens returned this year they were very welcomed by the neighbors.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

The birds free range out in the farm fields so going over to his side is unstoppable

Well, there in will lie your problem as he can just as easily make claim about your failure to contain your animals.

Since the wife is currently purchasing eggs I would suggest you broach the subject with her next time she comes to make a purchase - doing so out of neighborly concern, of course.