ohhhh... last spring someone gave me some old burnout silkie broodies and an oooold silkie roo. We are zoned for chickens. I can have 300 chickens and 13 roosters on my property. I started out with five li'l ol hens and a roo. My neighbor has mules that bray A LOT and large, noisy dogs that bounce off the fence and bark deep, loud and nonstop the whole time I am in my back yard. In seven years he has never asked his dogs to shut up one single time, to my knowledge... Anyhow, I get my li'l birds, and he freaks out, and takes to hosing them down in February in the middle of the night, ruined several barrels of feed, got my chickens all sick and they either died or I had to cull them all, but I did have one setting on eggs in a separate cage which hatched out my copper black marans eggs, and that was the beginning of my saga. We have had go-rounds since. Last time he called animal control to complain, I cursed them the widest blue streak, I think they have ever heard out of any civilian ever, told them what he could do with those roosters sideways and that every bogus AC call I get from him I will acknowledge by acquiring another rooster. I have not heard from him since.
