A man was having trouble getting his neighbor to keep his chickens fenced in.  The neighbor kept talking about chickens being great creatures, and as such they had the right to go where they wanted.

The man was having no luck keeping the chickens out of his flowerbeds, and he had tried everything.  Two weeks later, on a visit a friend noticed his flowerbeds were doing great.  The flowers were beginning to bloom.

So the friend asked him how he managed to keep the birds away.  "How did you make your neighbor keep his hens in his own yard?"

"One night I hid half a dozen eggs under a bush by my flower bed, and the next day I let my neighbor see me gather them.  I wasn't bothered after that."