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My neighbors have roosters, chickens and guinea hens. They free range and come into my yard, poop on my patio and side walk and the roosters scream at all hours of the day and night.

Yesterday I found poop (looked like from the guinea hens) under my car. Why are they going under the car and do I now have to worry about them damaging my car? Will they peck at anything under the car?

Thanks!!

They probably went other your car to get shade or if on gravel maybe eat a few small stones as most birds need hard thing in their crop to help breakdown and digest grains.
Chickens are relatively smart as far as farm birds go. Pehens are not smart at all. I don't they would peck anything to do damage but chicken feces all over your property unwillingly is not cool. I think it's time to draw some boundaries with your neighbor.

Thanks Tush!!

It's a paved driveway which they also poop on.

The neighbors are nice people that we get along with but are really bad neighbors. They don't seem to care if any of this bothers us. I very nicely told them the roosters were disturbing my husband's sleep when he was working nights and they didn't seem to care.

They are the same neighbors whose special needs child with medical issues used to walk into my house by himself. I let them know we were renovating the house and would not be living in it and able to supervise the door locking during the day. Their response was not to worry because the kid knows what not to touch.

Their flock annoys other neighbors but nobody seems to want to say anything to them.

They spend gobs of money on all sorts of things but won't put a fence up.

Some people you just have to be blunt with and insist on what you need. What you don't need is chicken poop that you can slip and slide in - on your property. Ask them to put up a fence or at least a coop area for their foul fowls.

Have you checked to see what your town's ordinances say about chickens? There might be some help for you there, like "no roosters" or "have to be 50 feet from neighbors". Stuff like that.

What about a motion-activated sprinkler? That might keep them away.

I might also be petty enough to fire off an air horn at random intervals.

If you don't want them on your property or deal with them pooping everywhere I would encourage you to check your tow s rules on them. Lots of areas have rules on how many birds they can have and limit roosters a d so forth. If there aren't any rules for your area then definitely figure out how to limit them.
I agree with the sprinklers. Some birds however like water and rain. So it may not be effective. I would also see an attorney to figure out a strongly worded letter to encourage them to put up a fence or chicken yard.

"What you don't need is chicken poop that you can slip and slide in - on your property"

This made me chuckle. Thanks Jeanie.

"I might also be petty enough to fire off an air horn at random intervals"

We think alike. I have air horns handy for the the occasional coyote that comes in our yard. I may have gone outside in my pajamas at 5:00a.m. and used it when the rooster was outside my bedroom window screaming.

I have tried to find out if there are any rules and I don't think that there are.

The husband is reasonable but his wife is not. Something is a little off. One of their dogs would get loose and she would get upset. My H spent an hour helping them try to find the dog. After they got it back they did nothing to keep it from escaping which would have been an easy fix. The small dog would get loose and run around on the road and in the woods all the time. I texted her a couple of times to tell her I saw the dog, thinking they would want to bring it in. She replied that it wasn't their dog. It is unmistakable and was 100% their dog. I even brought the dog back to them a few times but stopped making it my problem after that even though I worry about the dog getting hurt.

I don't think it will go well if I ask them to keep the rosters quiet (at least during sleeping hours) and keep the flock in their own yard. I really don't want to cause trouble or make life difficult. I live in a rural very small town.

I guess I am going to have to accept their inconsiderate behavior to keep the piece.

How can you not know that roosters really annoy people?

Well if you don't want to cause a rift then stop chasing the coyotes off. They can get rid of a herd of chickens quickly. Once they know it's a food source they will aggressively get every last one. I left for vacation with 18 birds and within 5 days they killed and ate them all. They managed to dig under the fence in a tiny space. They are fast sneaky and efficient.

I haven't seen one in a couple of years. I take an air horn with me when I take the dog out at night just in case because we have had them in our yard.

A bunch of guys with tracking dogs were hunting coyotes a couple of weeks ago. Maybe that's why they still have the chickens. I think they do lose some and just get more. We had four chicks on our patio last summer when we were having dinner.

I am a very non confrontational person especially with people that are bullies or appear to be mentally unstable.

I'm pretty sure they won't do anything about it even if I ask them and if they are aloud to have the flock there isn't anything I can do.

Sorry about your chickens Tush.

Thanks Zebra. Been without birds now going on 2 years. Thinking might try again next spring, I think our grandson will have fun with them.

The chickens can be entertaining to watch and they are quiet.

I bet your grandson would enjoy them!!

I hope you find a solution, if there is one, to the coyotes.

What if YOU put up a fence on that side of your property? Would that stop them from coming on your property?