JB, sounds like you been dealing with this for quite some time. We haven't had barn animals for quite some time but several years ago my son thought we needed a few chickens and gave us 3 little chicks. They were fun and we let them roam the yard they followed us around while we were doing our yard work always on the look out for any bugs or grubs we would dig up. But at the end of the day they always went back to their pen and they didn't visit the neighbors. The last of the original 3 died this fall and we sent the 6 new ones that we got just to keep her company to my son's house. We never let them run loose with us and I never got very attached to them so it was easy to send them to his place.
