rachels.haven's Journal

[thistlebloom]

In Idaho a 100 square inch square (or rectangle I suppose) sprayed orange on a tree is equal to a no trespassing sign.
It might be an inexpensive way to mark your property boundary until you can fence.

Hope the hunters are successful!

 

[rachels.haven]

The building to the far left is the neighbors empty barn (was alpacas). I think it's just under 500 feet from our house, and their house is just over that. If you mean my chicken coop, it's maybe 80 feet from the house (some slack from a 100 foot power cord). We're looking into a the ditch/seasonal brook (or whatever mass calls it). The bank rises up on both sides. The more gradual, less steep side ends with our house at the top. The steeper side ends with our boundary line at the top. Coyotes rally on the crest of the hill to the right of center.

 

[Bruce]

Darn those things, why can't they congregate at the bottom!

 

[rachels.haven]

Noooo! That would be closer...and in the water this time of year. The world does not need aquatic coyotes, lol.

 

[Baymule]

In Idaho a 100 square inch square (or rectangle I suppose) sprayed orange on a tree is equal to a no trespassing sign.
It might be an inexpensive way to mark your property boundary until you can fence.

Hope the hunters are successful!

In Texas, it's purple paint. A purple band of paint on a fence post or tree is the same as a No Trespassing sign. A lot cheaper too!

 

[Bruce]

Noooo! That would be closer...and in the water this time of year. The world does not need aquatic coyotes, lol.

Yeah but it isn't safe to shoot them up on the ridge, the bullet that misses could travel a LONG way.

 

[rachels.haven]

Ah, I see. There is the area in the front half of the property where they come through to get to the road that is flat, but you would have no incline advantage and the trees are thicker there and during snow melt it is a mud pie (our protected wetland). Idk. Hunting behind the property on the conservation land would probably be the best. Everything is hills, rocks, and trees. Somebody was sure something today somewhere very nearby. Maybe that will be good enough to move the coyotes out of the area for the rest of the month. Or maybe that's why we have a coyote problem on our property in the first place.

I kind of wish they didn't protect every mud puddle in Mass so I could have a fence up by now (not to mention protecting all the puddles is going to cause a health epidemic as insect borne illness move north as they have been doing, and not allowing mosquito spraying on said puddles-not sustainable, not safe, but sure sounds nice from their urban office or city dweller home with the windows shut and ac blasting). No more whining from me for the night though.

 

[rachels.haven]

You know, baiting is legal here. They could be baited down to the water, or even to the close side near the fence. The big one already comes there probably to try and pick fights, or so says the snow tracks.

 

[Bruce]

Night scope, 30-06 and bait! Sounds like a hunters paradise.

 

[rachels.haven]

Uh uh. No night hunting or Sunday hunting in Mass. Maybe night time house and livestock defending if the opportunity presents itself. I think that's legal. Definitely not hunting, right?

Oh, I wanted to record that I'd added Hoegger's Herbal wormer or supplement for worming or what's it to the goats diet weekly after their last dose of wormer. It says it's safe for pregnant goats, but wormwood, so I'm doing half dosage for them and being cautious. I'm relying on the conventional wormers and skipped the "cleanout dose". If it can help take even a bit of the load off of the real wormers, I'd do it. I haven't done fecals yet to make sure, but their eyelid color seems to be rebounding faster than normal over the past two or three weeks and they're not acting wormy again so maybe it's doing SOMETHING. I still think there's a lot of hooey surrounding the poisons we call herbal wormers, but if they work even a little they can join the other poisons I keep to help my goats beat the worms. I'd like the Hoegger's to work here so I can save the tested meds for emergencies and no wear them out as fast.

And the lamancha bucks with the rough feet have a line of tight, normal, healthy hoof growing out of their coronets. Now it's thick enough to see, and I should get a picture. They've got a long way to go, but we're on the way there. The black buck (who has been here a month longer than the brown) has been growing more hair as well, but THAT is taking forever. His poor footballs are still bald on the bottom. I'm sure his decency will be the last thing to come back...if bucks have decency, which as I type that I'm beginning to doubt.