nuisance ordinance

[HVH]

I have bees on a friends property and their neighbor wants me to get rid of them because they scare him. The friends don't like this neighbor and are willing to fight them over the issue. Now the neighbors have horses that make a lot of noise and horse poop lingers in the air, and it may be an illegal horse business????, etc. So the way the friends see it, it's nuisance vs nuisance. I can only imagine that if they go at each other I will be the loser. Does anyone have any experience with outyard neighbor turf issues like this?

[drobbins]

I had an interesting experience along the same lines
I live 10 miles out of town on 4 acres that backup to a lot of parkland
across the road a lady has lamas, goats, emus, etc
the guy up the road has a dozen peacocks
folks keeping animals isn't unusual
some guy bought the lot next to me an put up a half million dollar mcmansion and started whining about my rooster crowing in the morning
I had a blowup with him and he called animal control
the AC guy didn't come by but he called me
it was funny, it turned out he keeps 200 chickens
he gave me a half hour long talk about how to make sure I did NOT get in trouble
the bottom line is there's nothing wrong with having a dozen hens and 2 roosters in my area, just don't have 50 hens and 25 roosters.
then you're "out of the norm"
it sounds like in your area you have bees and your neighbor has horses
I assume these activities aren't "out of the norm" for your area
nuisance laws are for folks who are doing things that are out of character with the area where they are doing them
only you can determine if you fall into that category but it doesn't sound like it to me
I suspect if they have a fight nobody will win

Dave

[Michael Bush]

Sounds like a peeing match to me. No one every wins.

[notaclue]

Do you have an alternate location just in case this escalates (-1 sp) and goes against you?

[Troy]

This is a bad deal for you. I'd minimize the number of bees at that location. I'd also put up some kind of sign letting people know that the bees belong to you and not the landowner.

That way at least they might call you before they destroy your bees if it all goes bad on you.

The other thing is you might want to check up on the laws in your area. In my county they restrict the number of hives allowed and the distance from the property line, but on agricultural land larger than 2 acres it is generally allowed.

[HVH]

Thanks to everyone that responded.

I think I am going to move the bees. I have 22 colonies on 3.5 acres. This is the perfect location with many acres of trefoil and clover all over the place. Hopefully I can relocate to another location on the same parcel.