Can coyotes jump a 4 ft fence?

[77Herford]

Ug. We have yotes too, but as long as we keep their population down, they dont bother us. We are selctive in our kills....we try to kill females. If you shoot most the males, the females will breed with male dogs giving you the dreaded coy-dog. You DONT want those.

The only way to keep a hungry yote out of the pasture is with a well placed bullet.

How can you tell which are females???

Just like humans. The ones making the most noise!

 

[Queen Mum]

The males are the ones who scratch themselves a lot and lay around asking where the remote is, while the females are thin, and exhausted from trying to take care of the pups and feed the family.

 

[jmsim93]

LOL!!! I'm really getting a little nervous going into the winter. After reading some posts on the predator forum I'm realizing how vulnerable I am. I lock up the girls at night but the door is only 4 ft tall. I'm thinking I need to extend the door but I wanted good ventilation. I bought a pyrenees but she is worthless!

 

[Queen Mum]

LOL!!! I'm really getting a little nervous going into the winter. After reading some posts on the predator forum I'm realizing how vulnerable I am. I lock up the girls at night but the door is only 4 ft tall. I'm thinking I need to extend the door but I wanted good ventilation. I bought a pyrenees but she is worthless!

So for the ventilation put a piece of cattle panel at the top of the door like a screen door, sort of. And get a Siberian Husky. I had one before I moved down to Texas and she was the BEST livestock guard dog EVER! Maybe she was an exception, but she was awesome! She kept the darned wolf hybrids and the bears at BAY! Sixty pounds of fearless fury. Speed, agility, tough, non-stop sweetheart of a dog. She couldn't herd to save her life, but she adopted the herd as her pack and protected them to N'th degree.

 

[jmsim93]

LOL!!! I'm really getting a little nervous going into the winter. After reading some posts on the predator forum I'm realizing how vulnerable I am. I lock up the girls at night but the door is only 4 ft tall. I'm thinking I need to extend the door but I wanted good ventilation. I bought a pyrenees but she is worthless!

So for the ventilation put a piece of cattle panel at the top of the door like a screen door, sort of. And get a Siberian Husky. I had one before I moved down to Texas and she was the BEST livestock guard dog EVER! Maybe she was an exception, but she was awesome! She kept the darned wolf hybrids and the bears at BAY! Sixty pounds of fearless fury. Speed, agility, tough, non-stop sweetheart of a dog. She couldn't herd to save her life, but she adopted the herd as her pack and protected them to N'th degree.

hmmm....something to think about!!!

 

[memela]

We have yotes here also. They are really bad. But so far no attacks on the animals yet. but I'm looking for a couple of donkeys. they will keep them away from your herd.

 

[simplynewt]

They are here in multitudes as well and I hear them just about every night. I fret for my does and my hens as I have heard stories of them getting through just about anything to get to your farmed families. Once I went outside on the back deck at night and turned on the back porch light and when I opened the back door, I heard a big splash and seen something scooting across the creek at a high rateof speed. Then when it got across to the other side, I seen a pair of yellowish eyes peering back at me for a moinute and then slowly eased off.

I could only imagine that it was a Cyote looking for a goat dinner. I didnt get much sleep that night cause the deck chair was uncomfortable and the shotgun is not to good when used as a pillow.

 

[bonbean01]

We heard coyotes here (Northeast Mississippi) when our first ewe had her first lamb...I had no idea we had them in the area until then and it sounded like there were quite a few of them. DH bundled up warmly and drove the car to the lambing jug, kept the door open (it was cold!) with his gun ready just in case. We do have their night area very well lit all night and didn't see any. Next ewe had her lamb, and the coyotes started up again, as they did with the next birth. Makes for long, cold nights, but they didn't get howling again except the nights a lamb was born. They must smell the fluids? We have field wire in their night area with three wire strands of electric fence on the outside of that. Thinking of putting an electric wire also on top of the field wire. Just so much you can do...we've been lucky so far.

 

[MonsterMalak]

A good dog or two might allow you to get some more sleep.....

they do not mind staying up all night. And will work for Kibble and Love.

 

[fortheloveofgoats]

My parents are having the same problem with their cows. They just had some babies, so the coyotes are hanging out even more. The coyotes are getting a lot more adventurous, and getting closer. Their neighbor had a dog that chased them off, but it turned out it was a coyote luring it to the pack, and the pack killed the dog. My parent's didn't like having to kill them, since they look so much like a dog, and they know that coyotes are good in the fact that they keep the rats, rabbits, and ground squirrels down (which is what they have been having problems with as well) but when they are threatening the babies, they have no other choice. They started shooting at them, just to scare them away, that worked at first, but they are coming back. So the next one they see, will be the one that they have to shoot.