We have them in our area and before you get chickens make sure the fencing is buried a good foot or more in the ground, and I recommend something called construction cloth which is a fine mesh wire and it also prevents rodents from getting in the chicken yard AND we also made sure we put it under the hen house flooring and a good two feet up the outside wall as it prevents critters from chewing thru the wall to get to the hens. And we also made sure their was a covering over the hen yard because of hawks.. Any med-large size dog shouldn't have to worry about a coyote. But there is always the exception. Some rules our local authorities here in the Sierras have suggested are below. We also have cougars, skunks, opossum, beavers, eagle, hawks and other interesting critters.
Do not feed coyotes
If you see a coyote, be aggressive in your behavior - make loud noises, wave your arms, throw sticks and stones.
Do not allow pets to run free.
Do not feed pets outside.
Make any garbage inaccessible to coyotes and other animals.
Eliminate availability of bird seed. Coyotes are attracted to the concentration of birds and rodents that come to feeders. If you do feed birds, clean up waste seed and spillage.
Fencing your yard may deter coyotes. The fence should be tight to the ground, preferably extending six inches below ground level.
Remove brush and tall grass from around your property to reduce protective cover for coyotes
Teach children to appreciate coyotes from a distance.
Regulated hunting and trapping increases the "fear" coyotes have towards people.
~:MotherLodeBeth CA Sierras:~
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From: pinehavenfarm7
Hello All,
I'm new here by several weeks, Hello Everyone! Our family has been busy with a move to our new farm and getting a garden in for the year. We are in the Appalachian mountains~very beautiful, but very remote.
My question is about Coyotes. We haven't had to deal with them before, but we are having to deal with them now. I've had 2 wonderful mousers/barn cats go missing over the course of one month. Last week while putting our garden in, I was alone up on the hill and heard something I thought of as a strange growl in the forest over from where I was working. I straightened up and took a stronger hold of my hoe, and looked over at our Collie who was napping under a tree. He never woke up or moved, so I assumed I was hearing things, and went back to work. I did not hear it again.
Day before yesterday morning, I was first one out to go feed the dogs and cats in the early morning hours. The putrid smell of urine, about a thousand times magnified, hit me as I opened up the kitchen door. It was so powerful, I could hardly breathe. It seemed to permeate the whole backyard. It was not skunk, but something really equally bad. By lunchtime, the sun had burned off the smell as the dew dried off the grass.
We are pretty sure this is the work of Coyotes. I had not ordered my chickens yet or purchased our goats, we'd been so busy for the last two weeks, and now I'm glad we haven't, until we can get this under control.
Can anyone offer any advice or recommendations? I was thinking of using solar electric fence around my livestock areas, and getting more dogs up here on the farm.
Thank you,
Melanie
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