No no no no no!!! We did not just see that!

[chicknmania]

WE have coyotes and as far as I know they have never bothered our chickens, there is a lot of stuff to eat this time of year. But, we have had a few chickens dissapear or get eaten. Depending on how you are set up, as long as your chickens have a secure place to sleep at night, they will probably be ok. Chickens are smarter than you think and they do look for predators when they are free ranging.

 

[Henrietta23]

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You've got a point there. We live near a small airport and the planes fly right over our house as they come in to land. The chickens run for cover when they hear one approaching.

 

[natapple]

We have coyote all the way down here in central florida. In Jan. we here something that sounded like some one was beating a puppy. One of our neighbors on the back side of us told me that, the sound was coyote pups and that there is a family living in the my neighbors next to me abandoned barn. So I went looking for them and I found them.

That neighbor will not put out a trap and he will not listen to me. So far they haven't bothered our chickens, but they would have to got throw tow fences. One night when we came home late my goat was up running around so we look over to her and she was being chased. I ran inside a got the gun and shot at it and it went home. The next day I went looking for where it got throw and I couldn't find out where it got throw, on my way back in I saw a pup, I took off like a bat out of hell, to get the gun. I went on line to look up coyotes and it said some where that the pups can go throw large turtle wholes. So I found out where they were travel throw. It also said somewhere that if a pack is in your area and it hasn't messed with you our you livestock, let it be, because if you make them move and another pack moves in, they might not be so nice. And Animal Control told me that I was to trap one when I go to check on the trap and pick it up that I will have to have serval people with me because the spouse of the coyote will come after you. Hope your will not give you any problems.

 

[chicknmania]

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I'm not sure what all you're writing, but it seems you might be overreacting a bit. Basically, our theory so far has been, leave them alone, they'll leave you alone. And so far it's worked., knock on wood. Coyotes are persecuted by everyone, pretty much unfairly.

 

[chicknmania]

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OH, please.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

They are now on Cape Cod, having somehow crossed one of the only two bridges that can get you here. But they've already populated the whole place in ten years.

Last week on the bike trail riding home from work, I saw a loose dog trotting along in front of me. I thought, oh great, a tourist letting their dog loose just because they're in the country. But it ducked into the woods and disappeared when I got closer. A coyote on a bike trail. And we wonder why the bobwhite quail are disappearing.

 

[sandymart]

I'm just across the Long Island sound from you and we have coyote and fox and assorted wildlife...people think Long Island is suburbia but I live in the country.

 

[EllyMae]

We have coyotes here, in fact you can hear them at night sometimes. We are surrounded by cattle farms and in the pasture across from ours, the owners have shot and killed many a coyote. They have lost calves to coyotes.
I put a flock guardian type collar(leather with spikes) on my GSD just to be on the safe side and he patrols our farm. So far, no problems. Majority of farms here use Pyrenees, anatolians, etc with their sheep and goats and other small livestock.

 

[Henrietta23]

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Wow, I had no idea! I had a deer run in front of me on a bike trail on the Cape. That shook me up enough as it was!

 

[Farmer Kitty]

We have coyotes here. We have had them in the yard within two feet of the house door we use. Never have we had a problem with them. We have farmed here for 20 years and had calves that were hooked on a chain out in calf hutches that would have been easy prey for them. Not once have we had a problem. Our old dog used to go out in the field and play with them. Yes, they can and will go after chickens but, if you have a secure run and coop they probably are not going to bother. No, they are not afraid of people so much as some think because we have invaded their territory and they have gotten used to us. I have come to rather like seeing them as it means the wolves are not in the area. The coyotees and deer are good indicators for them.