Hen with pink eye

[Snowy]

Kev I love the way your mind works!

[Azzbo]

You guys are great! Any of you want to be my neighbour? It's nice to see there are quite a few like minded people who are happy with their lots and wanting to help others.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

We all need to move to Hentown or Chicken Village where everyone owns hens - any town planners out there?

 

(Or we could stage a coup on Henley-on-Thames ..... sorry .)

[Olly]

(Or we could stage a coup on Henley-on-Thames ..... sorry .)

 

So you should be!

 

That's made me laugh out loud.

[Couperman]

You guys are great! Any of you want to be my neighbour? It's nice to see there are quite a few like minded people who are happy with their lots and wanting to help others.

 

I think my neighbours might like me to be your neighbour!

 

Kev (Navahoe Jedi Knight)

[Geoid]

if she was spying on me I'd turn round, drop me pants and show her the moon, cheeky *****! How dare she spy on you! Give her something to look at

 

My Uncle did that when the neighbours kept on spying on them, they have never spyed again!

[Guest]

We all need to move to Hentown or Chicken Village where everyone owns hens - any town planners out there?

 

(Or we could stage a coup on Henley-on-Thames ..... sorry .)

 

reminds me of a poem from a poet hero of mine, John Cooper Clarke, this poem was recently featured in 'The Sopranos'

 

 

***warning, contains mild peril- well a bit of swearing anyway!***

[Guest]

buy lots of t shirts with rude slogans on and hang them on your washing line in plain view of Mrs Nosey- my hubbie has a t shirt of Bono with a very rude word underneath it.

 

If you google 'public grief junkie' they may still have said T shirt on their site or you could make your own.

[Guest]

grrrrrrrrrrrrr, this woman is making me angry, I'd make mincemeat out of her if she lived next door to me, I'd hang dirty underwear on the line in full view, I'd accidentally on purpose spray her windows with the hose while washing the car, I'd buy a drum kit, hire a huge loud barking dog, i'd park across her drive, i'd shove all my junk mail thru her letter box.......

 

 

why I oughta!!!!!

 

 

don't let her win and please keep us updated!

[Couperman]

grrrrrrrrrrrrr, this woman is making me angry, I'd make mincemeat out of her if she lived next door to me, I'd hang dirty underwear on the line in full view, I'd accidentally on purpose spray her windows with the hose while washing the car, I'd buy a drum kit, hire a huge loud barking dog, i'd park across her drive, i'd shove all my junk mail thru her letter box............

 

Now that's poetry!

 

I can imagine Morrisey singing those words along to a lovely cheerful ditty

 

 

Kev.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

grrrrrrrrrrrrr, this woman is making me angry, I'd make mincemeat out of her if she lived next door to me, I'd hang dirty underwear on the line in full view, I'd accidentally on purpose spray her windows with the hose while washing the car, I'd buy a drum kit, hire a huge loud barking dog, i'd park across her drive, i'd shove all my junk mail thru her letter box.......

 

Blimey , if I ever move next door to you I promise to be good .

[Helen&Lee]

Ignore your neighbours, they are clearly touched.

 

Wind chimes are the way forward, the bigger the better!,Hang them all around your garden and build a redwood bench, that could be mistaken for a place of worship,

Inform the council that you a descendent of a North American Navahoe tribe in a former life, and that chickens are sacred to your religion and the wind chimes are there to ward off evil spirits which clearly exist nearby.

 

Every Saturday morning at around 3.am you will need to worship the chicken god by sacrificing an Elton John CD at 300 watts. If that doesn't work then you could try Chris d' berk.

 

Failing that I will pay them a visit.!!

They will move.

 

 

 

Kev.

 

Oohh Navahoe Jedi Knight I like your style

 

Gave me a right good giggle this morning - great way to start my day

 

Helen

[Guest]

Firstly, hello!

 

And I am very sorry to hear you are having a bad exeprience with your neighbours! - Join the club. lol

 

It really does annoy me when people don't live their own lives and keep interefering with other peoples! Some people just need to grow up and stop being spiteful and jelous!

 

My neighbours recently reported me to environmental health because of the slight smell they create in the back of my own garden! Despite of the fact that we have a large working farm right behind the hedge with constant "farm smells" such as cow/horse manure etc.

 

I'm fairly sure that the council can't do anything at all with your noise problem, if you don't keep cockerels. Other than advise you to do what you can (sound proof and do your best to keep the noise down).

 

They have to investigate every complaint no matter how ridiculous it may seem!

 

As far as advice goes:

 

1. Try getting the council over to actually hear them, then they will know your neigbour was just wasting time and they will probably take less notice of her next complaint.

 

2. Try blocking the light from their coop with a large tarpaulin - your neighbour will probably complain that it is unsightly though!

 

3. If it is just 1 or 2 excessively noisy hens, why not just replace them?

 

But if it was me I wouldn't back down! Fight fire with fire I say:

 

Go to a dog rescue centre and pick the 2 most noisest one's (they will play off each other) lol! And keep them outside in a kennel as close as possible to your neighbour...

 

Then take up shooting as your new hobby and set up a target range in your back garden and practise regularly! (try not to get too carried away and accidentally "miss" your targets though...) lol

[lozkate]

There's lots of great thoughts on here and support all of which will provide solice in what must be a very frustrating and annoying situation. I'm a great believer in using others wisdom where mine is deficient and perhaps we're too eager to encourage others lock horns when we are detached from the reality. Try these:

 

"A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought." (Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French-born American writer and psychoanalyst)

 

"Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" (Shirdi Sai Baba, Indian saint)

 

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." (Nietzsche.)

 

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

If they don't strike a chord don't panic. They remain just words!!

 

Having exhausted my 'profound' muscle I'm off to enjoy the rest of today in blissful ignorance of tomorrow's horrors! [i stole that one aswell but can't remeber where from!].

 

Loz

[Aunty e]

We got a cease and desist chicken-keeping letter from our council a while ago (few months). We responded saying we were taking legal advice and would reply shortly. Forgot to reply, have ignored them, and bought more chickens. No problems yet.

BUT

we have made a real effort to keep the noise down, covered the compost bins (will be buying new ones ASAP) so that the 'unhygienic straw' doesn't bother our neighbours and try to keep the garden nice and free of poo so that we don't look unhygienic. So, while I absolutely object to any suggestion that my chooks cause a nuisance greater than the barking dogs/boy racers/loud parties/screaming kids, I can at least show that I'm being reasonable in trying to control any nuisance should I ever find myself in front of a court.

[Egluntyne]

We got a cease and desist chicken-keeping letter from our council a while ago

 

I find it astonishing that a council should issue a letter demanding that you stop trying to live an environmentally friendly and cruelty free life.

 

They are struggling to meet the green quotas imposed upon them by Brussels, but then waste time, postage and paper sending out a letter such as that.

 

Unless you are a council tenant and they can dictate what animals you have on the property, then it is none of their business as you will have all the noise and cleanliness issues covered.

 

I should file that letter in the hens nesting box.

[Gallina]

Do the hens make noise all the time, or only when they lay eggs? If it is only at laying time, I can't see there is anything to complain about at all. But if they crow like cockerels all day, I can imagine it could be a little irritating....

 

It seems odd of the neighbours to complain now when no one spends very long outdoors. (On the other hand, councils move very slowly, and it may be reacting to a complaint made in the summer.)

 

Have you got the hens too near the neighbours' house? Can you move them to show you are trying to co-operate?

 

Is it the early morning noise that worries them most? If so, you can cover them with a blanket to keep them dark and quiet.

 

As long as the covenants of your house allow you to keep hens, I can't see that anyone can make you gag them. Cockerels are a different matter.

[Olly]

Gosh Lozkate, that's twice your posts have made me stop and think! I do think that falling out with neighbours is to be avoided at all costs; it can make life very difficult. Even though someone is being unreasonable, it's probably still better to react calmly (I'm thinking of that E+R =O again!) - once the disagreement escalates, it is very hard to recover from.

 

I'm speaking not from personal experience, but having seen many neighbour disputes in my working life. "Ooops, word censored!"ody ever wins, everyone ends up feeling unhappy and uneasy in their own home, and often a lot of money is spent and anxiety engendered, for no real benefit.

 

Aunty E, I was wondering how your own problem was progressing; delighted to hear that it's all gone quiet!

[Egluntyne]

The best thing to do is remain calm, factual, and never be drawn into slanging matches etc.

 

We involved the police as our neighbour was continually breaking the law, although it had nothing to do with the hens.

 

Never stoop to their level, and be accurate in any record keeping, taking photos if necessary.