Need help with coyotes!!

[panner123]

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Llamas will work most of the time, a shotgun you need to be close, but a good varmit rifle is the way to go. The other alternative is a good electric fence.

 

[thepone]

I've seen the neighbors' llamas chase down coyotes before - they're wonderful and a nice option if you're not into killing the coyotes. Personally I need them around to keep the darn bunny population down and out of my garden so the llama thing is a fabulous, and handy since they're the neighbors', solution.

 

[mandomama]

Farmers around here use llamas with good success.

 

[LinckHillPoultry]

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Amen

 

[zatsdeb]

I have 2 miniature donkeys, and the noise alone I think scares the coyotes off. the chicken free range right under the donkeys feet, but if something comes in the yard that doesn't belong they attack! Be it a coyote or racoon, they work pretty good.

 

[SueNH]

I have a donkey that likes to chase coyotes. He's taught 2 of my mares the doggy smush too.
He was a more effective guardian when he was a jack. Now he will if they come in too close but the attack has lost some of the ferocity.

I also have my own arsenal of various guns and traps if I need to. I'd rather leave it to the donkey. I don't mind the coyotes in the woods. Even like hearing them sing but I will protect my livestock if I have to.

 

[rooster-red]

Anpther thing that works is to have a human male "mark" the perimeter.

I know for a fact this works, coyotes don't come anywhere close to my coops, meanwhile my BIL next door had an inncident 2 weeks ago and found 5 coyotes had cornered his dogs against his house and were eating the dogs food.

 

[wilded]

I have marked a stick on the field road and set a trap there and caught coyotes as they marked on top of my smell. A coyote will return if they know there is food there no matter what you do. The only thing that will stop a coyote is death. All other preventitives just are postponements to the coyote. Set snares where they come under your fence, set dirt hole traps or use a varmint call and bring them in to shoot. If you do not have the expertise to do this call in someone that does or you will lose livestock in the future. ET

 

[rooster-red]

All I can tell you is that this method has worked for me for the last 2 years.

 

[Run-A-Muck Ranch]

We have coyotes all around here. And at the moment we also have a fox living in our sheep pasture.
Well we got a llama a few weeks ago. After letting him get used to his new home after a few days we walked him around the pasture. Stopping every so often.
When we came across the fox holes the llama sniffed and looked around. Then he roled around. He didn't role on all the holes, maybe 3 of the 8 that are out there. Anyway. The fox hasn't been back to those holes since then.
Now our llama is only about 6 months old. It is a Male intact llama. I don't know if they have a sent that the fox knows to be dangerous or what, but so far it has worked. As for the holes that the llama didn't role on some have been used others look like decoy holes the fox made.
I don't know if the llama roled on the holes because he knew that it was an animal that wasn't suppose to be there or if it was just a by chance rolling.
Either way so far I am happy, don't worry so much about the fox now.

I have also heard of geese taking down smaller animals...specially if they have babies.
Actually one of the geese we have here has killed a fox protecting her babies.
That was before we got her (at her old home).
They do become VERY protective. She actually was trying to get our dog today. We had 4 babies hatch out yesterday evening and the mom is very protective. She chased our dog (the great pyr./border collie mix). The dog wanted nothing to do with her or the babies, she just happened to be walking by at the wrong time....Well I dont' think she is going to be going anywhere remotely close to those babies anymore...