Coyote snatched a chicken yesterday :(

[Cinnamon Roll]

Bear spray would be a better idea. You can stay further away from the coyote and still teach it a lesson!

 

[Allthefloofs]

Bear spray would be a better idea. You can stay further away from the coyote and still teach it a lesson!

That is a great idea too!

 

[cmom]

I don't free range anymore. It's a risk you take and for most people who free range, they do loose a bird/birds to predators sooner or later. I have nice large pens for my birds. I have electric wires around the coops and pens, concrete under the gates and good heavy duty netting covering all of the pens, all due to losses from predators in the past. So far so good. I have had a coyote jump over a 5' fence and back over along with some of the birds. It did kill some but I had a gun handy but it had bird shot in it. I'm pretty sure I hit the coyote but didn't kill it but it ran off. I also have several game cameras on my property. I love my cameras. Good luck...

 

[aart]

Yesterday I ran some errands and left the girls out, like I have most days for the 3 years we have had them. Well, today at 2:39 a coyote jumped our wall and grabbed one of our ladies. Most of our walls are 9 or 10 feet tall and I had just neglected to notice that there was one section that was closer to 7 ft. I have the culprit on camera, and can see the corner that it went to to jump back over, when I went to check height I can get about 3 inches of fingers past the wall, and I am only 5'2". I'll do an official measurement, but when I went to the other side of the wall I realized that I can get almost 5 inches of my fingers up past the wall so I know the base outside of the wall is higher than inside, so even easier. My question to people here is, has anyone used the coyote rollers? I'm willing to invest the 200/300 dollars for the length of wall that is the shortest if they work, it would be way cheaper than making the wall higher. What say you, good people of BYC? Coyote rollers, anyone tried them? Opinions? Input?

What kind of wall?
Pics would help here.
Was thinking block wall, would be cheaper to add to the height than install rollers.

 

[Allthefloofs]

What kind of wall?
Pics would help here.
Was thinking block wall, would be cheaper to add to the height than install rollers.

Block wall, there are trees and all sorts of things growing on/over it. I'll take a picture today.

 

[aart]

Block wall, there are trees and all sorts of things growing on/over it. I'll take a picture today.

Wonder if the trees were an assist to getting over.
Might trim those back first...well, you'll have to anyway no matter how you raise the wall top.

 

[Allthefloofs]

Wonder if the trees were an assist to getting over.
Might trim those back first...well, you'll have to anyway no matter how you raise the wall top.

I think that was probably a factor, there are some old palm fronds that lay on the wall outside surface. I was due for a clean up there anyway so I have my trimmer ready for today. I think the biggest factor is the stucco is very textured, I am a rock climber and I can free climb that wall by putting my fingers up and in sandals, I tried it yesterday. I now know that all the time we haven't had a coyote/bobcat back there was borrowed time. I agree that one option is to make the wall higher, I am planning on exploring that one for sure, the other side of the wall is an easement area so as long as it isn't an eyesore it isn't shared property with another neighbor. The coyotes and javelina and bobcats use the easements (essentially 20 ft wide alleys) as conduits to get places since it is rare for people to be in them. This is the first time I've had to be really thoughtful about what happens outside these walls and I am glad, lucky, really, that we only lost one.

 

[Allthefloofs]

So here is part of the stretch of fence. This is where the coyote left, and since the rats ate through my main camera power cord on Friday I don’t have full footage for the yard, I have a feed in another area and that camera clearly got the coyote running to the back near the storage building and I found blood on top of the wall there so I know that was the exit. 76.5 inches high. The rest of the walls are 94 inches.

 

[aart]

I have the culprit on camera

Video?
Can be uploaded to youtube then linked here.

 

[Allthefloofs]

I may have forgotten to download the clip from my Logi app and it only lasts one day. I will see if I did save it in all the hubbub and I'll gladly upload it.