rachels.haven's Journal

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Miss @rachels.haven,

I watched a YouTube video by "Keeping It Dutch", and in the comments some people mentioned that human urine can deter coyotes. Here is the video if you want to watch it and read the comments:

Do you think you could get your husband to urinate in a pot and when it is full you could pour it along the back boundary of your property?

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Bruce]

You don't think her pee is good enough??

 

[rachels.haven]

Oh dear. This can't go anywhere good.

DH's pee wouldn't work. The coyote would take one wiff and be like, "hmm, desk job. Mild mannered computer programmer. Has never had a violent thought in his life. Civilized pushover." and trot on by. And alas! I am not a male alpha dog. Alpha b!tches only strike fear in the heart after they have bitten you up and rearranged your body parts. In absence of that awe inspiring testosterone we have to work for what respect we get and I will not be biting any coyotes today.

But in all seriousness, once I get the propertyline defined, I may see if we can test what you suggest @Senile_Texas_Aggie . I'd like to make that part of the hill and the trail where the coyotes come over on our land less appealing and let them know we know they're there and this is OURS. I've also used citronella to mark vertical surfaces when I've had issues with marking and feral cats. It's pungent enough it may throw things off just a bit if human essence doesn't work or isn't available.

 

[Bruce]

Once you have the property lines determined you can put up some concertina wire just inside. That should slow the coyotes substantially

 

[Duckfarmerpa1]

Miss @rachels.haven,

I watched a YouTube video by "Keeping It Dutch", and in the comments some people mentioned that human urine can deter coyotes. Here is the video if you want to watch it and read the comments:

Do you think you could get your husband to urinate in a pot and when it is full you could pour it along the back boundary of your property?

Senile Texas Aggie

If this is real...coyotes would never come anywhere NEAR our land.....guess what...they are all over!!

 

[thistlebloom]

I have heard it as a deterrent to deer also. But nope, they just walk by and laugh.

 

[rachels.haven]

Ah, so I SHOULDN'T blame DH if it doesn't work.

 

[Xerocles]

I found out a few years ago that human urine IS a deer deterrent. IF you happen to be peeing at the same time the deer walks by...and IF you happen to have a .30-30 tucked in the crook of your arm at the time. That deer never bothered my garden again (yum). (And in was only several minutes later that I realized I forgot to "put my things away") But otherwise, not so much. They're so used to ppl and our myriad scents, it's just another moment in the lives of, for them.

 

[Bruce]

Ah, so I SHOULDN'T blame DH if it doesn't work.

He'll just claim he needs more beer to strengthen the deterrent smell.

 

[rachels.haven]

Accidently gave Ginger, one of Ava's does, scours yesterday. I put some grain in the alfalfa pellets I'd started them on for the cold weather. It looks like everybody else wasn't as into the grain as she was and she gorged. Ava had a little mess on her, but I think it was from Ginger as Ava's rear is clean and Ginger sticks to Ava because she is THAT doeling that everyone has that never wants to stop nursing. So I put out the baking soda, and Ginger went to town on it, gave her some probiotics, and am hoping for the best. If there's anything else I should do, feel free to let me know. She'll definitely get more probiotic paste later, and maybe some vitamin B paste too, but right now I want the baking soda shes eating to reduce the acid and the hay and water to slow her down before I put more strange stuff in her.

We went down to 2 degrees this morning, and we are going back up to 30 now, so being cold is less of a concern but I will keep my eye on that doeling. She's a pretty little thing with a nice straight back, and not as barrel-like as her siblings. I want to keep her and grow her out not have her kick the bucket for a silly reason. She may be staying.

I ordered a new milk stand for the nigerians today from the same place I got my big stand from. When B. would start feeling like he was going to have seizures he'd go nuts and start going after things and rip them to bits and one of the things he got was the small milk stand my husband made. DH is too overloaded right now to build another with me, so I will pay someone else to do it, I guess. Hay money for someone else.