Coyote fighters!

[WTA]

I shoot coyotes when I see them but now I am going out riding almost every day on my horse and armed to the teeth looking for them. We had 87 chickens a month ago and now it's 38 I think. All that was done in 2 nights! Most of it by a large pack of coyotes but some by stray dogs and abandoned dogs. People are really sick in the head thinking they are doing a dog a favor by dumping it in the country. If I see it, it will get shot from now on. I took in the last three dogs someone dumped on me and it was not easy teaching them to leave my critters alone. We have chickens, goats and horses. The horses will kill them if them mess up but the goats and chickens are pretty much defenseless.
I am keeping my chickens penned up good untill I can go a week at least without seeing any more predators. The goats have my three dogs for protection and those dogs are getting in fights almost every night with coyotes and strays.

I've been a country person all my life, except for several years in the military, and I swear all the tree huggers around here are a bigger problem than the coyotes. I know people that feed them and it really ticks me off. I have one neighbor feeding prairie dogs and you can imagine what I think about that being a horse owner. They get shot too when they cross the fence.

I have heard that it's not possible for coyotes and dogs to interbreed but that can't be true. a few days ago when I was out looking for them I started chasing one that would not stand there and take a bullet. He was super fast and the first thing I noticed was it had black and white patches on it and was a little bigger than the normal coyote but it was definitly a coyote. It had the right build and shape. Same tail and everything. It was mixed with a black and white wild dog that I used to see around here I know it. Probably one of her pups. I never did get a shot at him but my horse fixed him good. He absolutely hates coyotes and ran him over.

Just everyone be careful shooting them. There are those out there that will try to have you arrested and make life miserable for you for doing it. It's perfectly legal here to shoot them and dogs too when they are harming your livestock but that doesn't stop the tree huggers sometimes from being stupid.

 

[blueriver]

Coyote's are thick here, we see them dead along side of the road daily from what I assume being hit by vehicles. Not a given night goes by that you do not hear them howling, I see them mostly early morning, ocassionaly mid day, seldom in the evening. Ranchers, hang the dead ones on the fences, kinda like trophies. I do agree they seem to be getting bigger, maybe cross breeding, then again maybe a better diet.

Seems to be alot of coyote hunters ... yet the population just gets bigger, I have cattle and have yet (knock on wood) to loose a calf to one. I also have donkeys running with the cows, maybe that helps.

 

[WTA]

Donkeys and mules do help. Just don't try to domesticate the thing too much. The best fighting donkeys are the ones that are left alone. One of my neighbors has a really mean one in his pasture and it charges the fence every time I ride by. There are quite a few dead dogs and coyotes laying out in that field too.

The last mules I had were ok at chasing them off but when I quit riding them and just semi retired them to pasture they got a lot better at it.

 

[Podunkadunk]

Around here, everyone has a donkey or a mule in the field with their cows, horses, goats, etc. They have a innate hatred for all things canine. We have a donkey and every time we take the dogs (small one's) up to the pasture with us to feed him and the horse, he gets all prissy towards the dogs.

We got him from the previous owner of this place. He said as long as he had him, he never lost a goat. We don't have goats, but if a donkey keeps the coyotes at bay...I'll always have one around

 

[jinman]

We have a male donkey (gelded) that is worthless. He grew up having to defend himself against a big boar billy goat and he seems to have developed a hate of all goats. When he is around them, he bites them on the neck and slings them around. We had to separate him from the goats.

We put the darn donkey with our dogs and he has bitten them enough to draw blood several times. The one dog we have left will avoid him as much as possible and bark and nip at him if he gets too close.

This male donkey will keep other dogs and coyotes away, but he is such a holy terror himself that we really have no use for him. I've been told that female donkeys are the best. They have a good disposition towards other domestic animals and will run off the wild critters. I've also been told that it is best to keep one donkey with a group of animals instead of multiple donkeys. The person told me that they become very possessive of the other animals and are more protective if they are the lone donkey. It makes sense to me, but I really don't know if that's true.

 

[elalexander]

I know of one farmer around here whp keeps a donkey in with his cow due to coyotes. We have seen coyotes going from burn pileto burn pile in the winter to flush out a meal. And we live in town Anyway, as for the deer we have electric fence around our garden. In our creators grand plan there is a place for deer.

It's right beside the gravey and mashed potatoes

 

[Bird]

Jim, I hope you didn't buy that donkey I sold at the auction in West, TX. He was a young gelding when I bought him at the auction in Hubbard, TX, but he could see and hear a neighbor's 5 donkeys, and about 1,000' from them was as close as he could get, so he paced up and down the fence for a few days, then went berserk, grabbed a gentle old female goat by the neck, slung her back and forth and broke her neck. Then he grabbed a little kid by one hind leg and was running, carrying the kid, with me chasing him and wishing I had my .38. He went to the auction the next day.

The neighbor had 5 donkeys; one jack and 4 jennies with about 125 head of cattle and everything was OK. Then he decided the donkeys ate too much so he sold them. And then he lost so many calves to the coyotes, he said, that he bought another pair of donkeys, but that time he got a jack that attacked cows and calves. Sometimes you just can't win.

We have a male donkey (gelded) that is worthless. He grew up having to defend himself against a big boar billy goat and he seems to have developed a hate of all goats. When he is around them, he bites them on the neck and slings them around. We had to separate him from the goats.

We put the darn donkey with our dogs and he has bitten them enough to draw blood several times. The one dog we have left will avoid him as much as possible and bark and nip at him if he gets too close.

This male donkey will keep other dogs and coyotes away, but he is such a holy terror himself that we really have no use for him. I've been told that female donkeys are the best. They have a good disposition towards other domestic animals and will run off the wild critters. I've also been told that it is best to keep one donkey with a group of animals instead of multiple donkeys. The person told me that they become very possessive of the other animals and are more protective if they are the lone donkey. It makes sense to me, but I really don't know if that's true.

 

[JESSE1]

I've got 4 jennies and one gelded jack. All of them are very gentle. I generally keep three of them with the cows and two with the geese but lately I've kept all of them around the barn with the geese. The geese will stay pretty close to wherever the donks are. They will walk around and under the donkeys and the donkeys will just stand there and watch them.

 

[weldingisfun]

We have a male donkey (gelded) that is worthless. He grew up having to defend himself against a big boar billy goat and he seems to have developed a hate of all goats. When he is around them, he bites them on the neck and slings them around. We had to separate him from the goats.

We put the darn donkey with our dogs and he has bitten them enough to draw blood several times. The one dog we have left will avoid him as much as possible and bark and nip at him if he gets too close.

This male donkey will keep other dogs and coyotes away, but he is such a holy terror himself that we really have no use for him. I've been told that female donkeys are the best. They have a good disposition towards other domestic animals and will run off the wild critters. I've also been told that it is best to keep one donkey with a group of animals instead of multiple donkeys. The person told me that they become very possessive of the other animals and are more protective if they are the lone donkey. It makes sense to me, but I really don't know if that's true.[/QUOTE]
Its true.

 

[4720 OWNER]

Reading this makes me realize just how lucky i am to have the current dog. She runs with the donkeys and plays with them! Even the baby (less than a year old) will play and chase in the pasture after going nose to nose!

Also have coyotes but they have been very respectful, but that may change, the neighbors used to have a group hunt but they ended up shooting one of their own, so i do not think they will be out and about as much. (No murder charges, accidental)

The donkeys are also very helpful in keeping the highlanders at bay at feeding time. Still too much cattle out there, but working on it.