COYOTES!!

[Chirpy]

There have been numerous verified attacks by coyotes on humans (adults and children) in the Denver Metro area the last few months. Last week one lady was playing with her dog and the coyote came up and bit her arm! The dog then chased the coyote away.

My German Shepherd doesn't let the coyotes come onto our property (we have 40 acres) but he's getting old (12 yrs.) and he can't be everywhere at once.... we are hoping to get two GS puppies sooner than later to help him.

 

[gumpsgirl]

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That is good! It seems like once they figure out where dinner is, you have a big problem! Thank heavens they didn't figure that out and maybe your neighbor shooting at them sent them on their merry way.

 

[cheapcheap_jeepjeep]

I have not had any real problems with coyotes or Coy dogs at my home so far ( knocking on wood). But it does not help that my dang neighbor has a yellow lab that he never had neutered.

and you can guess it he mates with everything he can.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

If you do have a big coyote problem in your area, rigging up an electric fence around your run might be a helpful deterrent. I've heard you can buy some that operate off of solar-charged batteries, so you wouldn't need to run electricity out to your coop.

The other thing I've heard of that *might* help is human urine.

 

[Cowboy Joe]

Lots of yipping and howl everynight around here, especially the last few weeks. It's mating season for them. I saw a dog (male coyote) running the back field last week with his nose to the ground. He started running back & forth like someone had lit his tail on fire. No doubt what was on his mind and it wasn't food. Most of their attention is on each other right now. They'll be plenty hungry once the rut is over so make certain the coop doors are latched up tight and there are no openings for them to exploit. Coyotes prefer to dig under but I've seen them pull poultry netting away from the framing on more than one occasion. Electric fence is a great deterent. I'm building a critter tractor in the spring and hope to install a solar powered unit for protection.

 

[Fresh Eggs]

We have alot of coyotes too, I had a very close encounter iwht one eating a possum

 

[sandypaws]

true COY-DOGS are rare.(coyote, dog half breeds). also the breeding does not repete..(you will never have 3/4coy,, 1/4 dog) because of the different heat cycles of the females... i am NOT saying that you are wrong.. i just keep hearing alot about them here...

i have had coyotes come onto my back porch to eat out of the dog BOWL... litteraly 6 inches from the door window i was looking out of.. yes hunger will make animals deserpate...

hotwire has worked wonders for me.. no more coyotes, bobcats, neightbor dogs, or fox, killing my chickens... i love it, even when i shock myself by accident

 

[enola]

When I was living in the mobile home I called home before I moved into this nice house.....

.... I woke up one morning to howling in my front yard, thinking it was my young aussie I opened the door to tell her to stop. Low and behold, it was a half-grown coyote, sitting in my front yard howling. They are viscious down here.

So, I called in to work, so I could be late. Went to TSC and bought my young Aussie a kennel, so she would be safe while she was outside !

We don't have coydogs in this area. They eat dogs if they can catch them in the woods. Well, maybe not big ones, but lots of small dogs don't last long if they wander the great out doors.

There were also no stray cats in that neighborhood. And the barn cats at the near by stables always slept in the barn rafters.

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

Got a den of 'em in the canyon right next to me, I spend many a night out there huntin them darn things, and I'm still over run with 'em.

 

[yab]

there's a very effective way of removing coyote problems. it's called buying Llamas.. they're not very hard to take care of, and they're meaner than dogs.. i know someone who owns llamas, and every now and then they'll find a coyote who had been stomped to death in the middle of the night from straying too close to one of his llamas.. they'll stare any wild dog down.. they'll surely protect more than just your chickens.. they can be trained to spit at strangers too(which is NASTY to be spat on!)