What do your neighbors think about your chickens?

[Nicole01]

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I saw the mountains for the very first time in Montana two years ago when my hubby raced in an ironman. I'd love to wake up and see the mountains out my window every morning!

I'd also love to have a rooster for myself, but dh says no way, he doesn't want the neighbors mad at us and we have no use for one. I'm surprised he wasn't mad that I kept bringing home chicks. I started researching breeds and had to have one of everything the farm store had to offer.

I really shouldn't care what other people think. It does bother me when someone tells me what I can own and what I can not own, especially within my legal rights.

 

[Gardengirl 2011]

The one guy on one side completely keeps to himself. He has a dirt bike he rides in his back yard, so I doubt he cares about my chickens. The lady on the other side thinks I'm the coolest thing since cotton candy because of what I have tackled since moving in here. And she LOVES to look over the fence and see the chickens. When she has company, she shares my back yard with them. Over the fence of course.

And the people across the street keep to themselves too.

I hear a roo from somewhere and miss having one, but don't want to push any buttons.

 

[NYboy]

If your creepy because you love chickens you have a lot of company here!

 

[sonew123]

MEH

Im another "Don't care what they think" 6 acres that are mine and no one elses-I KNOW my neighbor hates my birds but she sends her Dh over to "mention" it. I tell him every time 2-3x a year-when she has the bagungas to come to talk to me face to face... then and only then will I even begin to think of thinning the flocks to create less noise. It's been almost 5 years and I have never seen her yet!

Oh and if she ever did come over to complain-I still wont do anything about it!

 

[ladyride]

It's my 27 acres I 'm with the don't know, don't care crowd .

 

[Old Homestead]

Don't know about MN. law but in California if any thing comes after live stock you have the right to shoot it, good luck with the neighbors

 

[andalusn]

I am on 5 acres as are all my neighbors, outside the urban growth boundary & zoned to have livestock and no limit on the chickens. My next door neighbor (behind my barn) has her front yard right up to my fence line. She has chickens as well so no trouble from that side and the other neighbor does not mind and buys eggs from myself or another neighbor up the street. When I did ask about my broody hen taking her 16 peeps to her side of the fence to work the dirt by their driveway she said she enjoyed them. So I don't have issues but as I am zoned for them I don't really get too worried.

 

[Spookwriter]

Guess it depends on your view of things.

To me, creepy people are the ones that threaten to have their
dogs eat my chickens.

I can't speak for everyone else, but the time I get to spend with our
chickens are some of the best moments of the day. I have chickens
because it pleases me to have chickens.

When I wake up in the morning, lay there listening to the rooster
calling the day...I see my woods through the bedroom window...I
I know how very blessed my life truly is.

I can hear the girls egg song from my office.

My neighbors seem to enjoy the noise as much as I do. Great neighbors.
Of course, they help me eat the eggs.

But then we have cattle, hogs, sheep, and four horses in the neighborhood.
Even a recently closed turkey farm. (all I have are the chickens)

I think I live in a really cool place.

 

[Carols Clucks]

A few years back mom had a new neighbor move in a town house next door, they are in the city there.

The lady would yell over the fence at her, write her threatening notes, even once pretended she was a lawyer and wrote her nasty-grams (I recognized her miss spellings from the previous notes in the "Lawyer" one) She even called the county (which we are in) saying we were running a road side veggie stand and commercial green house and nursery.

Mom did agree she had an extra (mean) rooster so he was sent to freezer camp. But when the county guy came, he saw that there was no fruit stand, no green house, no commercial plant sales...nothing. Just a bed ridden elderly man and his elderly wife and a dozen chickens (or less). He said we were fine, only thing wrong there was an extension cord run to an old shed. Only it was not plugged in so nothing for us to do but coil it up. So much for that nasty neighbor.

But a few months later, we heard the guys had to pack her up in a straight jacket and move her to a mental facility...seems she was harassing all the neighbors and her landlord


I hear we are getting a new neighbor, from a rich area (Think Oprah's) with horses. Not sure how he plants on keeping horses in that yard or even get a trailer up the street...so we will see Betting that one causes us some issues because we are missing the "doors" off the garage right now and have 2 tarps. The "Doors" have been sheets of plywood for the last 50 years or so and we are planning on putting up actual doors but have to repair the opening first

 

[M.sue]

Don't know,don't care, don't really talk to them, just a finger wave in passing. It's one of those neighbor things too long to explain and too ridiculous on their part. Anyway I specifically got a Rooster because I love the early morning crows and secretly just to tick the neighbor lady off!!

We live in the country on 5 acres and she can't do a thing about it. Wait till I get my donkey and goats!!!