EXETER, R.I. — First it was chicken poop. Now an Exeter man claims his neighbor is harassing him with turkeys.

Gerald P. Zarrella says his neighbor, James Lynch, placed 300 turkeys just feet from the property line, just before guests arrived for a wedding at Zarrella's property.

"It was just another mean-spirited act by him," Zarrella said.

The turkeys' appearance at the edge of a stone wall that separates the properties came days after a Superior Court order requiring Lynch to cover a pile of chicken excrement that he and his wife had placed near their property's edge.

Zarrella sued James and Sandra Lynch earlier this month after the appearance of 40 to 50 yards of raw chicken waste feet from their property line. Zarrella accused his neighbors of dumping the pile there the day before a wedding was set to take place, in retaliation for his holding weddings on the 32-acre site.

Zarrella claimed the pile created fumes so noxious that it made him, his wife and the wedding guests sick.

Lynch agreed to move the chicken waste and cover it with topsoil in time for another wedding to take place Sept. 24. Enter the turkeys.

"We don't have manure but we have the turkeys," Zarrella said. The Lynches' allow farmers to let animals graze on the land, but Zarrella said he's never seen them so close to the property line.

The turkeys signal the latest phase of Zarrella's epic battle with his neighbors and the Town of Exeter over his marketing of Gerald's Farms as a premiere events venue.

Those efforts have now been blocked twice in state Superior Court, which recently found that 2014 amendments to the state’s Right to Farm Act do not clear the way for commercial events — such as weddings, fundraisers and concerts — in the town’s rural four-acre district. Zarrella has appealed to the state Supreme Court.

Lynch did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment Tuesday.