Problems With COYOTES!!

Well, what happened was that the coyote dug under the fence. The fence is 5 feet high (10 gauge 4"x4" mesh squares) with two strands of barbed wire on top making it 6 feet high total. I thought of an electric fence, but that would be too expensive. Thanks for your concern and your response.

Hey i couldn't help it but there are cheap versions of electric fences. Cheaper than ammo for you weapons. Have you an old car battery, thats all we use to keep our bulls in. Try looking on-line for options. I will also look and get back to you. Good luck

I condsidered putting up an electrical fence as well AFTER I had our fence installed, but these ornery critters dug under the fence, so how high would the electrical wire have to be to stop them? Our fence is a 5' - 10 gauge 4 X 4 goat fence with two strands of barbed wire on top making it a total of 6'. I cost a pretty penny to have it installed, on approximately 10,000 linear feet. I will take your advice on your suggestion, though. Thanks

Thanks for the best response! a few nights ago, something killed the woman who lives across the road from me's 2 goats & 2 turkeys. The turkeys weighed about 15 pds. each. One goat was a pregnant female. The other was a full grown billy. They found huge cat prints around the pond. The prints were as big as my hand! Huge! Then they found some tan color fur stick in the barbed wire fence. We followed the tracks down by the creek. Then we relised that there was 2 sets. A huge one & a smaller one. A mom & a baby. Kind of scared the hell outta me. I make sure my dogs are put up every night before dark now.

Yes I have heard and have a steel trap, but I really don't like to use them because of my dogs. You say you have panthers there? That must be really something. We have an occasional cougar or two around here, sometimes killing pet dogs in nearby houses, too. Isn't that typical about game wardens, saying it is illegal to kill these pests coming around and killing our pet!?! Thanks and you got my "BR"

I thought of the same thing you are suggesting and to tell you the truth, I could hardly sleep because I kept running through my mind how to rig up a booby trap to get that coyote, or whatever it was, to literally exterminate itself if it came back to finish eating the remains. What I am planning on doing is, once we get it, we will skin it and hang the skin inside our fence so other coyotes KNOW what will happen to them if they DARE come into our property. Thanks and I think we think the same. Thanks!

We have three good dogs, African Ridgebacks. These dogs are ferocious with animals such as coyotes, racoons, etc. and Very friendly with kids and grown-ups as well. The bad thing about them is that we had another Little dog, a mutt you might say, that Taught them how to Kill goats. So now we cannot trust these dogs to guard the livestock for fear of them killing again. Thanks

I had heard of that too, but my neighbor also has some goats and sheep. He had several of them with bells and one of his goats (one that had a bell) got torn to pieces by several coyotes one night. Then, they came back the following night for the pieces they had left. Thanks