Coping with Coyote attack...

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

Thanks everyone for ur help and inputs.

I’ve been on many forums the last 12 years; cars, trucks, bodybuilding, firearms.... byc is by far the most active and supportive. No homo but I’m very grateful .

44lb coyote in the garbage can. Got 5 new girls; a dark Brahma who thinks I’m a puffy source of food and warmth, 2 dark Australos Who rather sleep in the garage and watch Fox News.... and 3 golden comets ... that Irysha nurtures in the family room at night.... my urban wife has them sleep on pee pads... didn’t see that coming but should’ve been in my vows.

 

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

What an obsession

 

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

2 comets.. for the ocd crowd. A typo.

 

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

Almost forgot, @PirateGirl .... deer trail cam is awesome, ones I got are close enough to WiFi in... its like a reality show in there! Thanks for that.

@kwhites634 .... 9mm Luger, AR pistol, safe and quiet, yet effective @70yards.

 

[Al Capon]

My property is 2 acres all 5' cyclone fenced, so are all my neighbors, I have a hard time figuring out how they got in and out. Are coyotes know to climb/jump that height?

I have a feeling they'll be back soon... am I taking it too far to seek revenge.. traps, a sting at dusk with may be involved

For every one you see, there's 3 or 4 you never get a glimpse of. They Will be back to kill more of your birds. And if they don't kill your birds, they'll kill someone elses. Kill every coyote you can, you won't even begin to put a dent in their population.

 

[llombardo]

"When searching for food in neighborhoods, coyotes are known to scale perimeter walls and fences. Coyotes can easily leap an 8-foot fence or wall. They have been spotted climbing over a 14-footcyclone fence"


I live along a prairie path so it's used quite often by coyotes to travel. I see them all the time, I hear the babies too. I think they are a bigger problem when food is scarce. They are huge by me. We do have regular sized ones too.

On this evening you could here them coming, it was definitely a pack. All my dogs kind of spread out and just stared in the direction they were coming from. It was spooky enough for me to get them all in the house.

Here is a picture of one in the middle of the afternoon just strolling through a pretty residential area

 

[kwhites634]

Almost forgot, @PirateGirl .... deer trail cam is awesome, ones I got are close enough to WiFi in... its like a reality show in there! Thanks for that.

@kwhites634 .... 9mm Luger, AR pistol, safe and quiet, yet effective @70yards.

 

[4 ever Orpington]

I lost 3 of my 8 hens last night to a pack of coyotes, 2 Light Brahma and my Rhode Island Red. I grew up on a farm so not really new to this per say but our girls are more like family pets roaming (and pooping) the yard.

So this hit pretty hard , especially that I went down to close the gate a little later than usual. Spent the rest of the night rounding them up, found 2 that ran away; Baby Rooster, a Dutch Bantam and Baby spice who's sweet but little clueless and usually last one in the coop, prob what saved her feathers.

Few questions:

• I usually cut these monsters loose in the yard around 9AM until they line up to get in the coop. I kept them in today, would you recommend keeping them locked in for a few days?

• Would adding motion detector lights be enough of a future deterrent?

• As a 42yo, 5'10", 240lb of soft muscles... Am I getting soft for crying a little? like I said, I grew up on a farm but we really cherish our girls, names and all. Mrs Scarlett (sweetest Rhode Island Red) almost got away but got snipped enough to be deadly, she was still alive when I found her, died in my arms .

• My property is 2 acres all 5' cyclone fenced, so are all my neighbors, I have a hard time figuring out how they got in and out. Are coyotes know to climb/jump that height?

• I have a feeling they'll be back soon... am I taking it too far to seek revenge.. traps, a sting at dusk with may be involved

Wow, spilling my heart here lol (but hiding pain..)

Thank you guys!

Sorry for your loss and pain.

 

[4 ever Orpington]

Def enough clearance for a clear shot. I'm a deer hunter, aware of those. I have a shed too that is well positioned to see them coming in and out, at least from where I think they come from. Oh and I just dusted off my night vision scope

Happy hunting!

 

[4 ever Orpington]

Sorry guys, didn't mean to cause controversy here...

went old school earlier tonight. Wife not happy about the pop noises... but the guest room has better sheets anyway...


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Well done bravo