A wolf with a tracking collar...

[tiki244]

ACK and your in the UP!!!!! You are just crawling with them up there. Relocation from DNR does no good when they can travel hundreds of miles a day.

 

[TDM]

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These guys are too tasty for the wolf to resist. (I pasture my meat birds and layers together) The four foot high electric poultry netting you see in the background is easy for the wolf to jump over.

 

[ejb3810]

Have you contacted the DNR ? In Mn if you have a problem with the Grey(Timber) Wolves killing your livestock there is a process to remove them. I believe there are designated trappers that they call in. It is my understanding that the removal is permanent. If you get my meaning ?
However if it a similar situation as Mn, I suggest that you drive to their office to speak with them. Here (Mn) I made multiple phone calls in May regarding a problem with a bear and thus far have not heard back.

 

[tiki244]

You have a very nice setup and looks very inviting for the wolves. People that have seen them tell me they usually spot them in fields just like that.


I went to a DNR workshop on them and they said there was one that had a tracking collar put on in Northern Wisconsin and they found it in a corn field in Illinois dead.

 

[Ole rooster]

That reminds me of a story in Colorado of a DNR official that had a meeting with the ranchers about wolf kills. Well, this lady agent didn't want to kill the wolves so she said they were thinking of catching the wolves and nuetering them so they couldn't breed. One old rancher raised his hand to make a statement and told the agent, " lady, you don't understand our problem. These wolves ain't raping out cattle, they're killing um". There in lies the problem. Government does not understand nor care about "your" problem. You have to take care of it yourself. Period. If that's not a cure for you, then the only option would be keeping them all up. Otherwise all I see is dead chickens till they're all gone. Really a sad state of affairs.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

I hope you are planning to be there to back up your dog - if you get wolf puppies can I have 2 males of the litter? I have shepard/chow that is just a pet, but going to get 2 elkhounds to patrol outside, a wolf cross might be better - yeah the dnr is part of the problem...they let some wolves out here (all very hush hush) One evening when I was hanging out enjoying the twilight I sensed something coming up the mountain, I was making noise but it kept coming - I told my husband and he watched with night vision - a wolf.
Great huh, it wasn't afraidd to come right up to the meadow - now I have to pack heat to go take care of the chickens in my own yard.
It doesn't make any sense, if you want to cut down on deer population, release a better predator, the whitetail deer hunter would be my choice. Why even release wolves (endangered species?) so neuturing them doesn't help - that is like releasing a shark in your swimming pool. I wonder what they hope to accomplish with this yet another dumb gov project

 

[theFox]

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The wolf must have got his his head stuck in the electric poultry netting and gotten zapped, 'cause a section of fence was completely knocked down and the fence posts were bent over. Meanwhile, he had a leisurely meal on some of my birds. The wolf has gotten several calves from the dairy farm across the road. This 120 pound GP girl is my only real hope besides extermination.

The DNR thinks the wolves will help reduce the deer population. Unfortunately, it is easier for the wolf to chase down a calf or chicken than a deer.

DNR isn't trying to control the deer population, they are reintroducing the wolf.

Here is what you do, file a claim in small claims against DNR for the costs of your losses and court costs also ask the court for an order requiring DNR to keep their wolves off of the property.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

Yeah, I get it, what I don't get, is why?

 

[tiki244]

Ole rooster funny comment about the farmers statement, not funny situation though.

Achickenwrangler#1 I have heard Wolf Dog Hybrids can be more dangerouse than wolves. Not afraid of humans, no place forthem to exist in the wild, and very unpredictable. Not for me thats for sure.


Dnr wanted to delist the wolf a couple years back because the population had grown much larger than expected(At least in Wisconsin and surrounding areas). But the animal rights activists (if my memory serves me) took them to court and stopped it. .

 

[spiritdance]

Don't know if you can have them there, but donkeys really are a good guardian animal. We were constantly battling coyote issues here until I put donks in the fields. So far, we've buried two coyote carcasses and lost 0 livestock to them since. I have a jack running with the jennies, but if you don't want foals a gelding will work, too. The goal is to set up a herd dynamic amongst the donks, as well as give them sufficient numbers to intimidate a pack of predators. In a herd, donks will work together to kill any predator that invades their space. And they know which canines are "safe" and which aren't. I have dogs all around mine, and as long as they don't act like a predator the donks will just keep a distance from them.