Wolves On My Property!

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I read through about half of the posts, so forgive me if I repeat what others have already said.

To the OP:

For long term solutions you need to build enclosures to secure your animals in at night. You will also want strong hotwire going around your property. You should have lower strands as well as high ones. These steps will be expensive, but less costly then replacing animals and certainly less then if you are caught shooting a wolf illegally.

We live in mountain lion country, and having our animals out in the open all night would be begging for problems. It wouldn't be the cat's fault, but mine for not taking steps to protect them. Heck, I just dangled food right in front of them, of course they will take advantage of it.

I have no issue with people killing known predators, however it should not be the first line of defense. There will always be more predators to fill the gaps you just created, it's far more effective in the long run to think defensively (fencing, etc.).

I'm in Western OR, there are now wolves in Eastern OR and they are making their way west. I suspect that within the next 5-10 years we will have wolves established here. It's going to be very interesting to see how it shifts around the predator balance. I am hoping that the raccoons and coyote take a hit, maybe even some of the younger cougar.

Anyway, good luck to you. Shore up your defenses.
 
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No I hadn't. Poly tape is useless on Elk, Bears etc, they just walk through it until it breaks..
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The bee farmers put poly rope fencing around their bee hives to protect them. They use solar powered chargers.

A big bull Elk killed a mare, that had a foal, not too far from me.
 
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it is funny this is not but 60-70 miles south of me and we started getting some funny looking coyotes a coupla years ago (red)
 
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Thank you, gogoalie for your post. I worked in YNP in 1996 and 1997 and watched the elk herds and bison herds dying of starvation through the winter. So overpopulated, and the vegetation was gone. The snow/ice pack was so deep that winter they couldn't get to food if food was to be had. Couldn't migrate onto the ranch lands - get shot for "Bruscellosis".

I haven't kept up with where the wolves have gone since the reintroduction much. Yes they were brought in from Canada, because there were no other wolves to bring in except some inbred populations in Michigan. To my knowledge that was never misrepresented - they had film crews of the helicopters bringing the wolves down from Canada. Plenty of press coverage of the wolves getting released from the acclimation pens - National Geographic crews, press from all over the world. Don't know how that's a "lie". The wolves reintroduced to North Carolina are much smaller red wolves, and the wolves reintroduced to New Mexico are another smaller species.

When I was there, the wolves ran away from people. It was grizzlies that you had to worry about. The only wolf that I know of at that time that left Yellowstone and was eating livestock was a female that lost 3 of her canine teeth and couldn't kill regular prey. She was recaptured and after a second chance, she was put down. The livestock owners were compensated.

Anyway, sorry to deviate so much from the original poster's issue. When I was in Yellowstone the wolf acclimation pens were buried chainlink surrounded by hot wire to keep the grizzlies and bison from knocking the pens down. So I would think such a set up would keep wolves away from chickens.
 
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it is funny this is not but 60-70 miles south of me and we started getting some funny looking coyotes a coupla years ago (red)

Lots of funny looking "stuff" (a highly technical term) out there, according to some folks it really ain't there.
 

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