Our Predator Story...

[cmom]

I see coyotes and fox most every night on one of my game cameras.
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Wow! That’s so scary and crazy you caught them walking around

The cameras do.

 

[cmom]

Electric fences are "worth their weight in gold" when you have chickens etc.

I agree...

 

[cmom]

Last nights visitor.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

Is it me, or are the predators getting larger and bolder?... years ago, it was rare to see coyotes - now there are wolf/coyote mixes in the region that we can hear in the dead of winter.... an electric fence might be a good thing to obtain...

Up until the 60s there was no coyotes in the East. They were either imported by fox hunting clubs or more likely they used the new Interstate highway system as a kind of "highway" to colonise new territory. My old fox hunting buddies talked about getting coyotes to run but they never did it. Another fox club I know of said that they imported some coyotes but I don't know that they did.

I do know that hawk behavior has changed completely from what it was 50 years ago.
In the 1960s you could not get a hawk to set on a power pole or a telephone line if he was on salary. It was just an open invitation for someone to drive by and shoot him or her off of their perch. Now-a-days posters on this forum are reporting that hawks are flying between the chicken keepers legs to snatch a chicken meal. I also have previously posted about an old German lady who blasted a chicken hawk when it flew over her garden and coop. This happened back in the 1950s.

 

[FarmerGirl101]

Electric fence is a life saver. Can you post some pictures of your set up?