Chickens!!

[marmaladeslade]

Very random, but I am not a fan of chickens . I mean they are yummy but I don't like them in my backyard all day. I especially don't like opening my back door and having 6 of them staring at me. I kind of push my way through them. If I go to my shed they run at me as they think there is food there. I know it's sooky, but they aren't mine and I just don't want them in my garden. Do you think it's ok to ask my neighbour to keep them in her property?

🫣😁 I’m sorry about your plight, OP but it is very funny.

how do they get onto your property?

Get a cat - or a greyhound! They would very soon be ex-chickens.

On a serious note, the neighbour needs to get them penned up and off your property

I'm surprised they're still alive with that amount of free reign.

Poor things. YANBU to expect a neighbour to keep them in within their own property boundar, in fact I think it's bloody weird that a person would keep any pet and want/allow it to get put of their own garden and into other peoples.

So your neighbour has chickens but they go in your garden? Aren’t they really destructive? I’m amazed you have any lawn left.

Where do you live? If your house is set right in the middle of a farm (and your neighbour is the farmer) then perhaps chickens are to be expected. Otherwise it’s reasonable to say you don’t want them in your garden.

Chickens can be aggressive. Most of the lazy cats I know wouldn’t risk attacking one.

I keep chickens in my back garden but they don't go into other peoples gardens. Actually it happened once, but she got spooked and flew over. 😂

Its not unreasonable to expect your neighbour to keep their chickens in their garden. Not everybody likes chickens. And they are poop machines.

You've just described my ideal morning!

But have to say the cat didn't work for us. My chickens would escape from their huge run to see my mum and the chicken and the cat were mutually intimidated by each other so pretended they couldn't see one another.

Of course it's reasonable. I wouldn't want their poop in my garden.
Hope your neighbour is at least giving you free eggs!

I have chickens but they're very securely confined. I'd never let them poo all over the neighbours' gardens (or get eaten by the local fox and buzzard populations). You are absolutely not being unreasonable.

A cat won't help at all though, against a tiny dinosaur. They know their limits.

I know it sort of is. We are semi-rural so it's post and rail with mesh between and they just duck under it. They literally run at me and freak me out . I try to shoo them away but they ignore me. I have 2 cats but they are normally indoors and I honestly don't want a chicken / cat war in my backyard!.

We keep them free range around the property and they are messy shit machines that can be agressive and generally a pain. I wouldn't inflict them on any neighbors.
The eggs are lovely though.
And they completely intimidate the cats.

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Haha. No they don't have to. It's the neighbours on the side . We are both on about an acre

Time to make them yummy! 🍗

Hehe. It's crossed my mind.
Thanks everyone. I might check if I'm within my rights because as I say we are semi-rural, and we lived in the city until a couple of years ago so I'm not sure of any by-law type things.
If all good I will speak to the neighbour. I was a bit shocked when she got them and just said " they are are going to be free range" as they wandered around my backyard and I said "shit I'm terrified one of my cats or dogs might attack one". SHe sort of just shrugged. The country is definitely a different world to the city!

Hello,

is it just me or does anyone else feel like this ?
We are off to new york 5 nights / 6 days and if I'm honest I'm not really looking forward to it! By the time Ive booked the holiday, checked passports, visas, airport parking etc then packed I feel exhausted.
Then the thought of getting up early, driving to the airport, checking in etc etc 7 hour flight navigating our way to out apartment.
I am travelling with DH, DS 19 & DD 16 whilst the teenagers are very appreciative I just don’t think they see everything that goes on in the background. They are super excited and I’m living on the edge incase I mucked up somewhere. Am I being selfish? i try to relax but i just can’t.
We are now sat in traffic on the M25 because DH took the wrong turning, I did suggest we leave slightly earlier but I just got told to stop being an airport mum.
I feel the same with anything I book - concert tickets, holidays, day trips.
I remember my mum being like this and seriously don’t want to turn into her. I feel I’m never living in the moment always looking for the problem.

xx

Could you look to fix/improve the fence? Maybe offering to split the cost.

Wrong thread?

Aren’t most chickens supposed to be inside atm because of avian flu? There are biohazard area signs up all over the place where we are (NW coast)

One of dd’s rescue chickens was very friendly with one of her cats. Maybe the chook thought he was an oddly-shaped chicken - right colour, though.

Yeah I guess, not super happy to split the cost though. I've seen these sort of portable netting things, which you can move from place to place each day ( she has them indoors overnight) so I think that would be the the best. I feel silly being scared of a chicken - we have a couple of giant dogs and they don't worry me. It's the way they kind of run at you flapping. Spooky, weird noisy things.

❤

Befriend them op. Very good for your mental wellbeing ime....
Great characters believe it or not!

I inherited four chickens with this place. What the vendor didn't tell me was that they liked to sit by the fire of an evening.

OMG Are they in your house? Eeek!! That's a step too far for me! I suppose I should be glad they just harass me at the back door.