Coyotes

[jdywntr]

The coyotes around here have no fear of humans. They will be out and about night or day and will trot along on the sidewalk right in the middle of the city.

If you are going to use dogs to keep the coyotes back, use extremely big tough dogs and use more than one of them. Coyotes eat dogs and the coyotes here attacked my neighbor's Rottweiler. My opinion is that a good strong pen with a cover is your best bet on foiling the coyote who wants to eat chicken.

I've got a large pack in my neighborhood and they swing by a couple of times a year to see if the birds are still securely penned, but they don't waste time staring at food they can't get. The rest of the time they are doing their best to control the cottontail population and I am pretty sure they take out a few raccoons. They also deal with abandoned cats and dogs dumped in the country so that I don't have to deal with them. So, as far as tradeoffs go, I have to pay for fencing and they do a very good job of local pest control.

I will count myself lucky then. When I saw the coyote in the pasture (again a few acres away and in tall grass) and it saw me, it took off.

 

[Jharper]

Thanks for all the information. I'll keep my 22 around just in case.

 

[aprophet]

The coyotes around here have no fear of humans. They will be out and about night or day and will trot along on the sidewalk right in the middle of the city.

If you are going to use dogs to keep the coyotes back, use extremely big tough dogs and use more than one of them. Coyotes eat dogs and the coyotes here attacked my neighbor's Rottweiler. My opinion is that a good strong pen with a cover is your best bet on foiling the coyote who wants to eat chicken.

I've got a large pack in my neighborhood and they swing by a couple of times a year to see if the birds are still securely penned, but they don't waste time staring at food they can't get. The rest of the time they are doing their best to control the cottontail population and I am pretty sure they take out a few raccoons. They also deal with abandoned cats and dogs dumped in the country so that I don't have to deal with them. So, as far as tradeoffs go, I have to pay for fencing and they do a very good job of local pest control.

I dispatch coyotes in town here because human smell has no effect on them when someone tells me cats are missing I know it is fox when the lap dogs are dissapearing I take my yote sized traps

 

[bigoledude]

The only thing pouring urine will get you is dead chickens!

Coyotes can be easy to trap. Google "Trapping Coyotes".

When I had chickens out in the country, I mounted a set of those really cheap outdoor motion-detector security lights near the coop. I screwed a receptacle into the light socket. I ran a wire inside the house to a radio or anything that made a racket. Whenever something outside, near the coop, crossed the motion detector, it set off my alarm inside. I'd go out and shoot it if it was a predator of some kind.

I've made this sound a lot more complicated than it actually is. The issues you might encounter is dogs and cats setting it off. If you have no other critters alarming you, it will detect coyotes for you. And, dead coyotes hardly ever kill any more chickens.