Wolf stalking my pens.

dj, I am assuming the lady bugs they released are not native to your area, whereas, wolves once roamed the US.
Nothing good ever comes out of releasing species not native to a continent, examples are endless, English sparrows and starlings in the US, rabbits in Australia, snakes on islands in which snakes never existed. In Guam almost all native birds have been wiped out due to the introduction of the brown tree snake, the birds o the island never had to evolve with snakes, thus no natural defense against them.
 
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My sentiments exactly!
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I guess I should consider myself lucky. We have mountain lions, bobcats, some other kind of cat, coyotes, raccoons, possums, eagles, hawks, owls, and bears. And I have yet to have one try and get to the chickens. The coyotes actually run past our bedroom window on most nights. Needless to say my girls don't free range. They have a spacious, enclosed run and coop. I consider myself lucky to be able to cohabitate with all these beautiful creatures....beats living in town any day.
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We do have some wild dogs though, and they are the culprits, I have some friends who consistenly lose chickens to these dogs. They've also attacked some horses recently. I never hear of the mountain lions attacking livestock, one actually took up residence in a neighbors tree over the summer. I guess they are staying well fed on the deer.
 
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This is *usually* true, but not *always*. For example, American chestnuts were mostly wiped out by a blight in the early 1900's -- so Chinese chestnuts were introduced to replace them. Similarly, Dutch elm disease wiped out most of our native elms -- so Chinese and Siberian elms are used now, and Chinese elms are being used to "re-create" American elms which are resistant to the blight.
 
actually the chinese chestnut introduced the disease that killed the american chestnut. It had no resistance to the disease that does not really affect the chinese one. Jean
 
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That's true too. But the Chinese chestnut is also now making it possible to breed blight-resistant American chestnut trees.
 
Hi Yep. I planted one. the walnut nearby killed it though. I have a wild one that comes back every year but dies back down. I sure wish they would get them to grow back here. Dad said he could remember whole mtn. sides covered in those trees. They were hugh trees. Sometimes the crosscut saws were to short to go through them. I have an old black and white picture of men standing next to one and they look like ants. I feel cheated not seeing that. Jean
 
also like to say wolves will kill coyotes, fishers, coons and any other predator smaller then they are! where they exist no feral/pet dog will ever exist walking free! ENjoy the peace!
 
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