Asking for ideas on how to "manage" coyotes

[babsbag]

He's baaack !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Littl bas...rd dug under the fence and under the hot wire. I am missing my prettiest roo. Actually two of them. So since there is a heat advisory in affect for today I am going to go and fix fences and run more hot wire. I have not been diligent on the keeping the wire HOT as I thought they had learned their lesson. They will tonight. *rubs hands together in glee*

 

[Bruce]

Oh babs!!!!!! I've shut off the lowest HW (6") on the fence because I just can't keep up with all the vegetation growing there.

 

[babsbag]

I spent about 3 hours in 103° temps running new wire, checking and repairing wire, clearing weeds (at least mine are dead weeds), and blocking the area where they dug under. We will see, and hear I hope, what happens. I think that I am putting in my new 2 joule AC charger this weekend too. DH wants to put one of the ground rods IN the pond, that ought to keep it nice and damp. Right now I have a DC charger and I have to keep the battery charged, kind of a pain.

I found a spot on our neighbors fence where the barbed wire had been twisted on to itself to make a nice gap in the fence. There is 3' field fencing at the bottom and then 3 rows of barbed wire on the top and two rows of hot wire on the side to keep my goats and dogs off of the fence. You could see where the field fencing had been climbed on and my hot wire was broken...it is poly wire, not metal. Do you think that there is anyway a coyote could have twisted that wire just by trying to get through or was that an act of mankind? I would rather a coyote gain access to my land than human.

 

[greybeard]

I found a spot on our neighbors fence where the barbed wire had been twisted on to itself to make a nice gap in the fence.

I know of only 2 things that can do that around here.
1. Human.
2. Deer.
Humans often do it with a stick they find on the ground around here and they'll leave the stick in place--usually feral hog or coon hunters retrieving their dogs.

Deer do it when they jump a fence, and misjudge or don't see where the top wires are. They jump with their front legs folded back under their belly, with rear legs extended back, but fold the rear legs forward near the top of the jump so they can land on all 4s and as they transition the rear legs forward, a back leg will go between the top and next wire, twist the wire as they go over, and sometimes permanently or temporarily trap the deer in the wire, but usually not. I've watched it happen several times and it does flip 'em over but they've always gotten loose here.
A stictched together pic of a whitetail's jump from near beginning to right before touchdown.

This one evidently got caught.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_-cNDGD1Ej.../EJX8kO1C9ws/s320/YearlingCaughtInFence#1.jpg

 

[Pastor Dave]

.00 buck shot. Good for more than bucks...

 

[Baymule]

That does sound like someone went walking around on your place.

 

[babsbag]

In the 8 years we have lived here I have seen one deer within 1/4 mile of my house which makes me think that probably not deer.

 

[Baymule]

Is it the fence between you and your creepy neighbors?

 

[babsbag]

No. But I still wonder if someone came onto the land thinking that they might steal a goat but was met with yet another fence with hot wire and 4 dogs.

 

[soarwitheagles]

Babs,

Maybe consider installing a motion detector high definition IP camera set up. Now a days, they are much lower priced! And most also come with the infra red for night time activity!

Costco, Sam's Club, and a myriad of other stores sell the entire systems now for a fraction of the cost compared to 5 years ago.

We have nearly our entire ranch under cameras now and the result is no more guess work and best of all, I feel a lot safer too. Nice thing about it, you can even check the cams on your phone when you are off site.

If someone in your family is a tech guru and likes to tinker, you can also set the Raspberry Pi with a cheap camera for pennies...