Coyotes are everywhere. They try to avoid humans. Here they come out mostly at night.
Last nights visitor, a coyote. Most nights I see a coyote behind some of the coops. The lights in the background are more cameras. They actually don't light up but the inferred makes it look like they do.
I think probably coyotes after the calf's. We have a problem with them here too. One neighbor has cattle and goats. Whenever the goats would have their kids the coyotes would get them. Now he doesn't have a billy any more so no more goat kids.
I have found some of my traps set off too for no apparent reason. The only thing I saw on my cameras were fox or coyotes around the traps. I started baiting the traps with canned dog food meat chunks and some old chicken we had left in the bottom of our freezer. I checked the bait every day and...
A few months ago something got a gate open to my grow-out coop pen opened. I'm sure it wasn't a coon. The only predators That were on the camera that points to that coop was a fox and coyote. It was a little foggy that night so I couldn't see what actually got the gate opened but whatever it was...