How do you manage predator safety for your livestock or pets?

[farmerjan]

Our big problem is rats and raccoons. The rats are always a problem and now the cat is freeloading . The coons drive me crazy they trash everything they find. Sometimes we find them in the morning and have to chase them away. Not much we can do here about them.

Live trap them and shoot them. Rats and Coons... Especially the coons....

 

[farmerjan]

Here it is coyotes with the calves and sheep... the chickens are coons, possums, sometimes foxes, as well as the mice and rats that are bothersome everywhere... feed and eggs mostly. We also are having some snakes in the chickens... and if caught in the coops, they are killed. They do good on keeping down some of the mice and such... but will do a number on the eggs and especially the bantam hens with chicks.

Constantly use the live traps for the coons & possums and groundhogs in the garden in the season.... They are NOT REHOMED... I will NOT FOIST a problem on someone else...

Lead poisoning by .22 is good for disposing of problems also... Coyotes are disposed of once they are seen bothering the animals... Had a male once on the farm that never bothered the calves and we let him alone. A couple years went by, he would travel off the farm to other areas and sadly was shot... within 6 months had some move into the farm and started having problems with losing some 24 hr old calves and several lambs killed in a couple days... friends came in with night vision scopes and got 5 coyotes in 2 nights coming into the sheep pasture.
Now have a donkey in with the sheep again... no more problems...
Have run llamas with sheep and cattle also... they worked fine.

I keep a longhorn cow with the cattle at one place... NO dog or coyote problems in there....