BadMoonRising
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I use a couple of donkeys to keep coyotes at bay. Donkeys would stomp them to death if they could catch them. They are so prevalent that eliminating a few hasn't been terribly effective for me as a long-term solution.
Coyote solution ?
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jschoolcraft86
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you have very different coyote experiences than i do. here it is the vultures that will get them. the worst that has happened to me from coyotes is the loss of my barn cats (Pete the Barn Cat 1 - 4), gone but not forgotten.
Ky hills
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Both coyotes and buzzards are problems here. As if the last few years the buzzards are the bigger problem of the two.
FestusCA
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Xylitol is a widely used sugar substitute. You can buy granulated xylitol on Amazon. A rounded teaspoon is about 4 grams. It is said that 3 grams is enough to kill a 60-pound dog, or presumably a very large coyote. Both are canines. Check the law where you live. If you put up signs and warn people, you may be protected against a lawsuit if a dog eats it. It doesn't take effect right away; it can take 30 minutes to a few hours. So, you may not see the result if the coyote has moved on before it hits him.
Dave
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Number 3 trap with 3 feet of chain and a 2 foot stake. A simple dirt hole set. Make it looks like a dog dug a hole. Bait down the hole. Trap set 8 inches from the lip of the hole and slightly to one side. Don't use rotten bait, they tend to roll on rotten stuff. A little grass to cover up the bait.
FestusCA
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As far as mixing it with hamburger meat, make a small patty and sprinkle a teaspoon of Xylitol on top. Fold the patty over, press and shape it into a patty again. Fold it over again, shape it into a patty again. Repeat until the Xylitol is well mixed with the meat. You can freeze the meat until you need it. Put it out where you think a coyote will find it in the next day or two. You might not see what happened, because it takes some time to work and the coyote is likely to move on before it does. But if the coyote doesn't come back, you'll have a pretty good idea what happened to it. Xylitol is a food additive and not toxic at all to humans and many other animals. But it is very toxic to those in the canine family. I read that it will probably also harm raccoons if they eat it.
Calves are so inquisitive, especially bull calves. I use my dogs to tame calves because they will walk right up to my dogs every time. If a mama sees these shenanigans, my dogs get rolled. lol. I have had a lot of luck leaving one or two brahman or F1 females with calves at all times. Have found a couple of dead coyotes in the pens. No dead calves.
Ky hills
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I like to have a Brahman influenced cow or two around for the same reason. Sometimes I’ve had cows that would go after a coyote even if they didn’t have a calf themselves. Longhorns or longhorns crosses can be the same way.
Had a neighbor complaining about coyotes killing his calves. He found out it was a neighbor's dogs. I know twice that has happened around here.
A dog or donkey in the herd is a good determent.
A dog or donkey in the herd is a good determent.
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Have lots of coyotes and have not had any problems with them I know of, but I have had 3 calves stomped to death by their mothers trying to protect them from buzzards trying to get the afterbirth. We have a bear problem as I have seen several close my house recently. One looked about as big as a cow. If they get hungry could be a problem.
chevytaHOE5674
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I've yet to have a coyote bother a calf. Even a newborn outweighs a calf nearly 2:1. Coyotes here tend to eat mice, squirrels, etc.
Big cats and wolves are a different story.
Big cats and wolves are a different story.
Ky hills
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We have a lot of coyotes but have not had any coyote issues with calves that I know of for around 25-30 years. At that point back then I had 3 Charolais heifers that lost 1-3 day old calves to them. The calves were seen alive and doing well then the next mornings they would be found dead and mangled. Never had lost any like that prior to that time and it wasn’t an issue with the cows that were calving at the same time.
A few years later coyotes put me out of the sheep business. Lost a bunch of lambs, and two grown ewes. A neighbor actually lost a Suffolk ram to coyotes. They eventually were able to shoot and kill a huge coyote he called the butcher that we believe was a big factor in both our sheep losses.
In recent times like I’d posted a few years back in this thread buzzards are still a big issue and more of a current threat to our calves than coyotes.
We have bears around too, A few years ago we were looking for a cow early one morning that had calved the night before and had a live calf which we later found both cow and calf doing well. In the process of trying to find her, my wife said I just saw a black cow turn and run into the bushes and disappear in the thicket on the neighbors side of the fence. I looked that direction and saw a bear cub high tailing it up a tree. I told her I don’t think you saw a cow.
A couple years before that we had a probably 200# calf that we found standing off by itself and on closer inspection it had a huge gash on it side just behind its front leg around the flank part it was probably around 4 inches wide and about a foot long. Calf just seemed in shock. Got it to the barn but it was dead by morning. We don’t know for sure but kinda figure it was a bear as that was the year we first started seeing a lot of activity instead of just an occasional sighting or sign.
Bears really had fun in our farmers market garden too.
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