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     Alexander Cripps New member Username: hazydaynubians Post Number: 1 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 142.167.6.237 Rating: N/A |
Do what ever you have to we had 2 dogs running in our field where me and a friend was i yelled at them and ran after them if you wanted to save your animals put them in a barn at night with lights around NEVER LEAVE THEM IN A FIELD THEY WILL COME EVEN OF IT IS RIGHT BY DOGS just get some pictures and take them to a animal control it's their job to keep animals and humans safe and if they don't do any then kill them take a die animal put anifreeze in it cut it and put a broken light bulb in it and put other pison in it and leave it with the goats they will come and eat it and DIE or This is the safest way to kill them take goats blood or chicken blood and a razer blaze 2 or 3 and they will lick the blood cut there tonge and lick their own blood untill they die.. The Best Way........  | ||
| Gary Pfalzbot Board Administrator Username: admin Post Number: 70 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 67.142.130.34  Rating: N/A |
Some good points have been made here for everyone to think about. The helicopter control plan that Don S. mentioned is also in place here in Colorado. I will try to get some information about this program if I can as I know it is widely used in the western states. Best regards, Gary Pfalzbot, GoatWorld | ||
| Don S. (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 172.162.27.234 Rating: N/A |
I live in central TX and just recently was in the news that because of the drought there is an increasing coyote problem around the city. They are getting more aggressive and attacking domestic animals. A local vet went outside to get his morning paper and let his small dog out with him. A coyote came out of the woods and snatched up the dog while it was in the neighbors yard and ran back off into the woods. Someone else saw a coyote casually walking across a street with a cat in its mouth. If you get a guard dog, I sure would not stick a puppy out there or it would be a 'steal', for the coyote. It might be a good ideal to contact your local county agent and see what options are available for eradication. They might give you connection to a trapper. Not sure if it would require a special permit in Texas, but I seen where traps and poison bait was set out. They had special issue warning signs hung on the gates, probably a requirement. In the past in my area, some organization had a couple of guys fly around the creek bottoms in a helicopter and shoot at the coyotes with an automatic shotgun. That got it back under control. | ||
| Paul Gooden New member Username: paullis Post Number: 36 Registered: 03-2006 Posted From: 67.142.130.43 Rating: N/A |
Understand that coyotes kill for a living. If they don't kill they starve. Your domestic dog has no such motivation. Having said that, you must treat your herd of livestock as dinner for predators. No doubt the presence of a dog helps but we have a good friend who just lost a 5 year old GP male to coyotes. Good fencing and containment, lights plus dogs or Jennies or Llamas are really the only ways to get near 100% in survival. Night glasses with a high powered rifle is dicouraging also, and hang the carcass}. Then, scratch the losses up to nature. | ||
| Maggie Leman New member Username: mleman Post Number: 38 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 64.102.64.115 Rating: |
As for poisoning a carcass IF a bird of prey or a wolf or someone's pet running loose eats it and dies (and they will and that includes PROTECTED vultures) it is a 10,000.00 fine and a federal offense. | ||
| Gary Pfalzbot Board Administrator Username: admin Post Number: 66 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 67.142.130.43 Rating: |
We have been having good success with a Great Pyrenees, a 3/4 Pyrenees 1/4 Australian Shepherd and a Llama. Now I don't know if this is true or not, but my neighbor said that early one morning she saw our dog playing with a coyote in the field. Gary Pfalzbot, GoatWorld | ||
| mark guernsey New member Username: 2ndchance Post Number: 23 Registered: 05-2006 Posted From: 70.129.196.21 Rating: |
go buy the wounded rabbit call (cd) and set out there for a 1/2 hr with your cd player and your gun after a few days of that they will be all dead or move on the rabbit call plays on a loop. 2nd if you have a goat die or a weak one that needs put down. take one gallon of antifeeze (green) and 100 cc needle inject every place you can on the dead one with the antifreeze and leave it lay on the other side of the fence. whatever eats it will be dead in 24hr. i would only choose the 2nd as a last option | ||
| Maggie Leman Moderator Username: maggieleman Post Number: 1283 Registered: 07-2005 Posted From: 71.111.230.109  Rating: |
Donkeys will not go after more than one coyote at a time, they are no match for a pack or even just 2 coyotes. A LGD or 2 is your very best protection! Maggie Leman Goat 911 Capri Medic | ||
| (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted From: 69.46.211.194 Rating: N/A |
one word for you. DOGS. big intimidating loyal guard dogs. I think I saw that jc ranch has great pyrenese pups for sale for 250 ea that is a steal. they are located in texas www.jcranch.net no i don't work for them. i am in minnesota and have bernese mountain dogs. | ||
| Ainslee Cara Love New member Username: loveboergoats Post Number: 11 Registered: 04-2006 Posted From: 68.241.254.108 Rating: N/A |
We've raised our goats on our ranch for 10 months now and haven't lost any to predators until this weekend. Now, in about a three hour window coyotes took five of our kids. We tried to stay in their field to hunt them, but they didn't come back. Does anyone have any ideas on keeping this from happening again? The drought here in Texas apparently has them hungry like everything else so they're trying anything. It happened when our electric fence went down after being damaged and our donkey didn't seem to do too much. Any help on this matter is greatly appreciated. Thank you! |
