Asking for ideas on how to "manage" coyotes

[frustratedearthmother]

I'm just going to toss this out there...

https://www.amazon.com/Nite-Guard-NG-001-Predator-Control/dp/B0014FGT8C

Several years ago I was losing chickens out of a pen that my LGD couldn't get to. I finally, with a lot of skepticism, ordered a couple of these. I've gotta say - never lost another chicken from that pen. Coincidence? Maybe...but it worked at my house.

And, just for a funny... My neighbor asked me what those blinking red lights were in my pasture and I told 'em it was a game camera because something had been 'stealing' my chickens at night, lol. I don't think I ever changed my story!

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I know some folks really like the Nite Guard that FEM posted.

I don't know how well it would work here, those dang coyotes will still get close to the fence line.
Last year this was rather close to one of our fence lines....

The coyotes got it and once they were done the buzzards picked it clean. Crazy.

 

[Bossroo]

Hi babs,

We have had coyotes on our property often. Just last week we heard them fighting and yipping, establishing their territory. We have never lost a sheep. We did install a large light in the sheep pen that borders the forest. This light comes on at dusk, and turns off at dawn, and it lights up the entire area.

I read somewhere that lights at night keep coyotes at bay...

Do you have your areas well lit?

Well, on our first ranch, I had an 3 sided well lit shed / barn surrounded by a corral with jugs to keep newborn lambs with their mammas. one night coyotes whent inside that barn and helped themseoves to a couple lambs. A few nights later, while I was doing well hidden night watch in that barn a coyote came along and droped in it's tracks from lead poisoning from my .308. I hung it's carcass on a fence as a warning to others. Solved that problem for a year.

 

[Mike CHS]

Bossroo - that same method gets rid of problem crows also.

 

[Bossroo]

Bossroo - that same method gets rid of problem crows also.

I agree, but exchage the weapon to a 12 gauge shotgun . The more you drop the more show up to let you know of their displeasure, so more are available targets to thin out the population.

 

[greybeard]

I guess we should all be glad we don't live in these days:

 

[babsbag]

Would a .22 have a chance against a coyote?

I have looked at those Nite Guards but didn't know if they would work. Also looked at this. http://www.runcoyoterun.com/

I had a more elaborate version of that kind of deterrent when we first moved here, it wasn't a CD but an actually little device that would screech every 8 minutes all night long. It never bothered me, but the neighbors hated it. No neighbors right now so that problem solved. But my little gizmo finally died and the company is gone away. I never had coyotes back then, but I also had electric fences and then eventually my dogs and the neighbors had GSDs that pretty much guarded out driveways. The chickens lived with the goats then too. So I don't know if the device worked or if it was just other deterrents. Plus we have water sources now that weren't here before so I am sure that that draws them in too.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

I can't believe you can't use the the leg hold traps Babs. That is just crazy. Is it all leg hold traps? Can you use the one with rubber jaws?

 

[greybeard]

According to section 3003.1
3003.1 Use of Body-Gripping Traps Prohibited; Buy, Sell, Barter, Etc. Fur from Animal Trapped with Prohibited Trap.

A body-gripping trap is one that grips the mammal’s body or body part, including, but not limited to

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  • steel-jawed leghold traps
  • padded-jaw leghold traps
  • conibear traps
  • snares
  • deadfalls

• But there seem to be exceptions for nuisance animals.

Well........ just read this:
http://outdoorselfreliance.com/decoding-california-trapping-law/

Toward the end, it says:


§465.5. Use of Traps.

(g) Use of Conibear Traps, Snares, Cage and Box Traps, Nets, Suitcase-type Live Beaver Traps and Common Rat and Mouse Traps for Purposes Unrelated to Recreation or Commerce in Fur.

Conibear traps, snares, cage and box traps, nets, suitcase-type live beaver traps and common rat and mouse traps may be used by individuals to take authorized mammals for purposes unrelated to recreation or commerce in fur, including, but not limited to, the protection of property.

If you haven't used a connibear before--beware the power the have. I have several 10x10 connibears, and the tool to set them with. Like old age, they ain't for wimps.

 

[farmerjan]

Yes a .22 will kill a coyote if the person doing the shooting is a good shot. Have killed several here in Va with a .22. Like the distance with the .22 rather than the .410 shotgun. Yeah, I'm a wimp now, got tired of having my shoulders aching with the .12 gauge and didn't have a .16 gauge, so just went to a .22/.410 over-under and like it.