If you really don’t like your neighbors, buy a couple dozen guineas instead. Plus they are are more adept to avoid your dogs who love chicken.
My daughter has about 10 guinea fowl on her farm. Those are noisy birds! They also have dozens of chickens that roam free. Very soothing to sit and listen to the little chortles of the chickens. They come right up to us - we scoop them up and pat them.
They have ducks as well. Not quite as calm and friendly.
“If you really don’t like your neighbors, buy a couple dozen guineas instead. Plus they are are more adept to avoid your dogs who love chicken.”
Guineas have to be the stupidest creature on the face of the Earth. They provide lots of amusement.
Before we got a coyote/dog proof fence around the house, we would turn a bunch out of the brooder and they would roost on the ground in a bare spot. The coyotes would kill 3/4 of them over several nights before they figured out that it might not be a good idea.
Once you turn them out, you will never touch one again unless it is cornered or roosting.
We are down to 3 2+ year old birds right now and they still have to run back and forth in front of a fence for several minutes before remembering to flap their wings 3 times in order to fly over it. That beats the past when they ran back and forth all day trying to figure it out.