Neighbor's chickens causing damage

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Neighbor's chickens causing damage

You will forgive me if I amuse myself by thinking that Brother Nobar’s chickens are coming home to roost. But in all seriousness, The Lord speaks of the joy in heaven when a lost sheep is found. At this stage, with all that returning of chickens, your neighbour should be ecstatic but she is not. This is callous ingratitude and ungodly.

It is not even as if you have coveted her chickens or her hen-house. Thus the only thing remaining would seem to be:
Ex:22:10: If a man deliver unto his neighbour an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it:
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Ex:22:13: If it be torn in pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good that which was torn.

You should tear up the odd chicken and hand it back.

If there is any complaint, quote Ex:22:5: If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

[Nobar King]

Re: Neighbors chickens causing damage

I get some eggs now and then, but I can buy my eggs at the Piggly Wiggly, I don't need her nuisance chickens for that.

[Nurse Clampett]

Re: Neighbors chickens causing damage

She has chickens and hasn't even offered to bake you a casserole?

[Nobar King]

I'm having issues with my next door neighbor and her chickens. The chickens run free, and they often get into my garden and dig up seeds, seedlings, and a number of plants as well as creating a good deal of mess. I have talked to the neighbors several times about keeping their chickens cooped up but they seem to think their chickens are darling pets that should be allowed to roam.
My question is how to deal with their chickens. When they are in my garden should I trap, kill, or have them shipped off by animal control, or anything else?

Please advise.