Coyotes!!!

[cthrash1]

We've heard a pack pass through our back field yipping and howling for the last two nights. Sounded like they were right by the house. Luckily so far they haven't made a pitstop at my pens. 3 of the coops get locked up but one is just a doghouse...Maybe it still smells like dog so they don't bother.

 

[rebbetzin]

Coyotes are clever beasts. Here in the desert, we have them. They come into the residential areas but, usually they stay out in the desert.

I have heard of coyote packs sending a female coyote in heat to lure dogs out of their yards, so the pack can kill the dog.

Stray cats are usually eating by coyotes here. These last few years we have had Mountian Lions come to the outlying residential areas!! Scary!!

 

[ChickaD]

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Could you send us a bag of dog poo to sprinkle around our border?

Our yard never saw a coyote until we became dogless.

 

[redhen]

i wonder if coyotes can tell if a dog is a sissy or not?..because i have 2, 130 lb dogs... and 1, 90 lb dog, and they basically are sissy dogs...lol.........and their scent dosent keep away our coy dogs...so, i wonder if the coy dogs can sense this...or "smell" this?....any ideas?

 

[Cetawin]

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Oh no not at all. Coyotes are not nocturnal only. They roam and hunt anytime. If it is real hot or extremely, they will be less active but they have no schedule per se.

Now an animal like a Fox or Coon...there is more likely that is the case or they have young nearby. The whole principle behind that theory is that an animal with rabies will begin acting odd and doing things completely out of character such as being nocturnal and being out in the day, coming close to your house and showing no fear of you...etc etc.

 

[mangled]

Well, we have a dog, but he doesn't range up to the back of the yard. He's a Boxer, but he'd still be easy pickings for a pack.

We've come up three hens short as of tonight. We weren't here this morning, the neighbor closed them up last night and opened them this morning (confirmed by the gamecam pics, LOL) but we're still 3 short, so something, probably yotes, took three today.

We're going to start laying out for them again.

Em

 

[Chicky Joy]

Coyotes can be a real problem where we live. All over the island people have small pets taken all the time. My husband has lost quite a few hunting dogs over the years.Our neighbor down the road has free-ranging chickens and they've lost some birds to the coyotes. I know of one island dog that's killed at least one coyote.

We can hear them howling at our house. Our chickens don't free-range at all so the coyotes aren't my biggest worry with them. I think we've spotted one in our yard in the last two years.