Thing is the coyotes haven't shown any interest in our chickens or newton.... but they are packing around the sheep's fencing which scares me. I want to put up hot wire around the outside of the fence but that means getting another solar thing which is easy. But putting posts in frozen ground, is hard. Though it's warming up it isn't that warm yetGreat that you got to see your friends at the Museum!!!!! Love the pics, yep a trio of likable goofballs.
Coyotes!!!!You have any hot wire up? I would get on that ASAP even if it is just a relatively short fence outside the chicken area. In fact, put it a just foot outside, they won't be able to jump it without hitting the existing fence and would hit the hot wire on the way over or landing Fry their noses a time or two and maybe they will look for their chicken/goat dinner elsewhere.
lol. So far we have one side up and another side started. Our neighboors live in a little townhouse just off our property, and ended up being very rude to my family so as our little passive revenge, we put our fence line as close as legally allowed to the neighboors property. They still live a good ways away from us but they keep dumping garbage on our property claiming it's theirs.... so now we will have animals on it and there is nothing they can do or claim about it! 
. So tomorrow morning I will be going in there with my dad to catch her and hold her while I get a closer look and attempt to get some pictures. Hope it isn't pink eye and I hope it isn't a bad eye injury no clue how she would have scratched her eye though since we don't have anything sticking out of any place, but maybe she scratched it on a branch or something . I hope she is alright. ...
and yet I find myself laughing to myself because all I have to do it call out to my ram, who will greet me at the gate and then walk into the shed and the herd follows me . Meanwhile my dad and everyone else who has tried just chases them around their building and then around the field, eventually failing and waiting for them to go in on their own accord . 
My dad then looks at me and tells me to try, so I call out to them and all of a sudden all of them race over to me like I have a bucket of treats 
... lol my sheep know who they like lmfao.
It's not nessecarily that I have treats, I just go in there and sit down somewhere and eventually they are grazing around me, plus the reason why Ramsey is so attached to me it I give him a nice hardy back scratch and I brush him occasionally too because if I don't he looks all scruffy
. He really likes it too which is the funny part
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though it's not something I would normally turn to, it worked so I'm happy! people claim chickens are vegetarians but if given a choice mine are full blown carnivores! One of our girls got extremely muddy in her hunt of the little rodents 
... my chickens don't like staying still 
