Damned coyotes..recommendations for electronic predator calls?

[OH_Spartan]

I feel your pain. I have never lost a bird to a coyote but have lost dozens to other predators over the years. I have found a coop with hardware cloth buried around the perimeter to be the best for nocturnal critters. For the bold, day time predators, we trained our lab to be tolerant of the birds. She spends the day where the birds free range and we haven't lost a chicken on her watch.

If you have a brazen attacker, a caged bait like Art described would work. If your wife can't stand seeing one of her pets caged as bait, then buy one from a local farmer and let it be her pet after the coyote is gone.

Last advice.....when you successfully dispatch your predator, feed the heart liver and kidneys to your birds. The protein is great for them and you get the sublime pleasure of orchestrating a role-reversal.

 

[SimplyChad]

MCgunner ill come down and try out my new 223...... also I might have known guys far far away in a distant land who used spider line and a couple of 7/0 fish hooks to kill yotes. Not a good way to go but you'll know when you got one on line.

 

[Art Eatman]

Nah, the spider-line thing is addressed "To Whom It May Concern". Bad for neighbor's dog.

But enough on that subject.

 

[MCgunner]

Dang, well, I penned up what I have left, banty rooster and 2 hens. All else is gone. No more free ranging for a while until I can nab the culprit. I'll just watch the pen and keep the shotgun handy, maybe get up early a few mornings and sit and watch. It gets a little cooler out, I'll go out and sit with my .22 mag and blow on that rabbit call some.

 

[Art Eatman]

Some neighbors of mine were fed up with being awakened by coyote howls. They were told that if they fed the coyotes, there would be no more howling. They bought a bag of the cheapest dog food they could find. Fed out about a pound at a time, just across a two-foot-high rock wall at the edge of the yard.

It didn't take long for the local coyote family to become accustomed to showing up for dinner, every day about 5PM or so. From their front porch, you see one or two sitting on the far creek bank from the house, wating to be served din-din.

Put out food. Tap tin can on wall. Go back and sit on the porch. Coyotes would come and take one morsel at a time and rear up to look over the wall while chewing.

No more howling.

So, try the dog food bait thing, maybe.

 

[jmorris]

You might at least put up a game camera so you can find out "what and when".

It is generally past my bed time when my camera here at the house takes pics of them.

 

[redneck]

I have a "Johnny Stewart Attractor" call I picked up at cabelas for about $50. Its remote control with 5 pre set call sounds. Volume has to be set at the speaker, the remote has start, stop, and changes sounds.
I have only gotten to take mine out in the woods and play with it once and I didn't see anything but it seems to have plenty of volume and surprisingly good sound quality for such a small speaker.

 

[Cypress]

I'm sure you are aware but coyotes will eat most fruits as quick as they will a chicken. I have a pear tree in my lab pen and every year I have coyotes digging in to get them. Even with the threat of 3 labs present. Usually once they get started it's an every night affair. I would suggest making a bait pile of some overripe fruit and posting up one night. I usually just leave enough light on to illuminate the area well enough to take the shot. Fortunately for me the pear tree is directly in front of a window. I can sip cold beer and wait in comfort. The last few years I have just picked all the pears and chunked them over the fence though. Old yotes just trying to make a living. Chickens would be little different though.

 

[walker944]

I bought the ICOtec Call of the Wild GC300 Electronic Game Call a couple of years ago, and have had good success with it. I bought mine on Amazon. Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/ICOtec-Call-Wild-GC300-Electronic/dp/B00844Q3XC/ref=sr_1_1?s=sporting-goods&ie=UTF8&qid=1409176291&sr=1-1&keywords=ICOtec+Call+of+the+Wild+GC300