Sorry you lost the chicken, hopefully you scared it enough that the coyote won't come back.You addict!
Had an interesting/frustrating experience yesterday...
At 2 pm the hubby went to check cows in our pasture in a nearby town so I gathered eggs in the henhouse and candled the eggs under the broodies. Then while in the process of replenishing hay in the nest boxes, a huge chicken commotion started in the barn and birds were frantically running back into the hen house.
As I ran to the hen house doorway, I see a bushy tailed dog running into the back of the barn. I closed the big barn door trapping the coyote in the barnand called the chickens into the henhouse and secured their doors.
Because we have a lot of equipment in the barn and stored fuel, etc. I decided to load the gun with rat shot to give the coyote a good butt blast, but the gun mis-fired 4 times!!! The coyote is evading me running around the barn from the shop to the wood stack to the calving pen and in and around the equipment.
In the process of trying to get the coyote, I find a dead hen on the floor in the calving pen...an obvious fresh kill. I took her to the front of the barn to dispose of later.
So now I'm waiting for hubby to get home with the big guns. We check every nook and cranny in the barn with flashlights and loaded guns. It is nowhere to be found. We think it may have scrambled up and over the calving pen gate by shimmying under the chain link top.
We have never had a coyote visit this early in the day, but it was evident that this was not the first visit. Hopefully it will be the last...at least for a while.
