coyote's howled and I got scared...

[happyheart]

Im so glad my neighbor is the ultimate hunter! He has taken out so many coyotes this year so my girls have been safe so far. So I say bring them on and deal with my neighbor

 

[maplesky7]

oooh pboo....you crack me up!

I can just see you hot tailin it all the way home!

you goof ball.


me,
g

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Where are our bees? Where are our birds?

I know some of you guys are kidding…but some people need to get a grip. I am more afraid so someones pit bull that I am of any coyote.

If it weren’t for the services of brother coyote, you would be knee deep in mice and rats. And as a result, you probably wouldn’t have any food/crops left to eat. Yes, some animals need to be culled…especially if rabies becomes a concern or a possible repeated sheep killer. Then you zero in on one particular animal not the whole specie.

Some people haven’t had the benefit of an education of the natural world. Most people are used to four walls and there is always that race to surround one’s self with all the fancy plastic STUFF that one can accumulate.

When the critters sing, learn to listen. It usually means all is right with the world. Someday those songs may be missing and it will be a sadder and much lonelier world out there.

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

 

[MagsC]

I heard coyotes out in the fields early this morning. I hear them a lot more after someone is done harvesting one of the fields.
I mostly like the sound even if it is a bit creepy!

 

[Sequin]

Hee hee, we think we are Sooo in the country when we hear the coyotes howl. We used to Really like the sound(as a sign we lived so far out maybe?), but that was before the chickens. Now the sound(depending on how close it is) jolts us awake and gets us running out of bed to check for the safety of our chickens. We routinely walk our large male dogs around the perimeter of the property(especially the fencelines) and let them mark their territory. We are hoping this will help as a bit of a deterent. And hopefully it doesn't have the opposite effect. We only walk our intact girls in the back yard, or up and down the street. So that the coyotes don't get the scent of the girls near the fencelines.

Might work? We also move the chicken tractor nightly, and I am hoping that helps in confusing the coyotes sense of smell as well.

Again, not sure it helps, but it couldn't hurt, right?!!! Hope your chickens are safe and well!!!

 

[maplesky7]

yup...chickens are out and about...well, some of them are at least....it will be thier first winter.


i like the sound of coyote...but it still gives me the heebie jeebies when i'm out there....all alone...in the dark....with many noisey chickens...or tastey morsels....a coyote may call them....


and some of the birds flew south....but i still have a lot around here. and the bees is a mystery....some say the pesticides, some say mites, and some say cell phones??? why what have you heard?

 

[Ladyhawke1]

Quote:
http://www.democracynow.org/1997/12/29/forgotten_pollinators_americas_bees

Listen, watch and learn. This story is now eleven years old.

People are just now paying attention. Why are the important things ignored? Why are we dumbed down? This is our earth. It is the only one we are going to get.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Quote:
The bees worried the heck out of me at first. Then I studied colony
collapse disorder and spoke to some beekeepers and even some
exterminators. It's a virus or infection of some kind, not cell towers or
mites. Pesticides are disgusting to me the way they are overused but
they also help produce enough crops to feed the world.

We have coyotes but never hear them. I wish we did. That would be a
treat.

 

[perfectly_polish]

Quote:
Come spend a night in my yard.
Trust me it ain't a treat.
I hate those mangy things and the noises they make.
They're best dead.

 

[PurpleChicken]

Quote:
Come spend a night in my yard.
Trust me it ain't a treat.
I hate those mangy things and the noises they make.
They're best dead.

That's just wrong. It's a live animal trying to survive? How can
people be so insensative and kill them. Murderers.

Now if someone can produce a good coyote recipe I'd be all for it.