Coyote! RIP Cuckoo Roo

[team edward]

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Yup I think the .22 needs to be gotten out. The coyote will most likely come back because he knows he can find food there. So sorry for your loss

 

[1-duckling]

Wow. What a week. You all were so right about them coming back. Cuckoo Roo was taken last Monday. Wednesday night around 8:30 p.m. we heard a pack of coyotes yapping. It sounded like they were in the neighbors horse pen just a couple hundred feet from us. We grabbed the big mag light and the rifle and went out. As we started down the driveway we could see the flashlights of two other neighbors. The coyotes were seen in the horse pasture but took off too fast to get any safe shot at them.

Thursday morning my neighbors heard a ruckus right by their house. They looked out the window in time to see the coyote break the neck of their silver laced wyndotte hen and take off. She called us while her dh ran outside with the rifle. My dh grabbed the rifle and took the car down the driveway headed for the neighbors. On the main drive was a coyote. He stomped on the gas to try to catch it but it took off into the bushes. Meanwhile, the neighbor is tracking the other coyote that took the bird but the feather trail stopped before he could locate it. They could see where one had started digging at their coop.

Today, Sunday, I was cleaning the chicken coop and stepped out to take the poo to the compost when a movement caught my eye. It was ten in the morning and there was the coyote walking our fence line. It was sniffing the bottom of the fence like it was trying to find a spot to come back in. Of course, me with no gun and by the time I got back to the house it was gone. I called the neighbor (same one who lost the wyndotte) and they came scurrying out gun in hand. But again, too late.

 

[Rockin' Reds]

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Hopefully between you and your neighbors you will get them because they will keep coming around. Luckily for us the neighbor boy came roaring into the driveway and let us know our friend was heading our way again through our east pasture and he brought a buddy. As soon as my DH stepped outside with the shotgun there he was...again in broad daylight...coming back for another one of my girls. He was unsuccessful that day.

 

[annie3001]

omg so sorry!!

 

[wpalmisano]

That Coyote will be back. A nice leg hold trap placed where he comes through the fence, then the .22 or shotgun. Once he found a meal there, and an easy one at that, he will keep trying.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

Get a trap or something, he will keep coming back unless you get rid of him.

 

[aprophet]

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if legal in your state snares work well here as well one of my favorite ways to deal with preds.

 

[Q9]

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Sounds like you should carry the gun loaded and ready while outside. Give the coyote a VERY warm welcome if he ever shows his rooster-killing face around you.