lagrange chicks
Songster
I trap a few coyotes every year to keep them from killing fawns in the spring and now that I have chickens it's nice to thin them out some. This was a pair caught in cable restraints behind my house last night.
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We are in south eastern near Whitewater, we live next to 4000 acers of Kettle Moraine state forest.Where are you at there? We live in Shawano County, toward Pella and there's constantly a pack we've heard every night for 7 years. When they get close the dogs start barking.
In the past DNR would hire sharp shooters to thin the deer herd down in areas overpopulated and give them to the food pantry, but now I don't think they do that anymore do to CWD in the herd. Now the cars take a bunch and just rot on the side of the road.We have coyotes here, and way too many deer! (Knocking hard on wood!) we've never had an issue with the coyotes, not having small dogs or sheep or goats. And our deer population is out of hand; fewer human hunters every year. I'm just as happy that we don't yet have black bears or cougars (some sightings, but not many) and especially no brown bears or wolves!
Our chickens have been lots to hawks occasionally, and raccoons and opossums before we had secure housing. Our worst single events were once to a sick mangy fox, who was eliminated, and to our dogs when we had fencing failures. Probably our fenced in large dogs discourage coyotes from getting to the chickens too.
Mary