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Brad
Brad
9 years ago

Good job Charlie! (Jack, you helped too..lol). Now here’s to a quiet winter for the rest of the flocks. Happy Thanksgiving!

Debra
Debra
9 years ago

Glad you finally got that coyote. What would make a coyote kill so many at one time? Is that normal behaviour for a coyote?

May need to secure your coop better too in the future so it doesn’t happen again.

Glad you finally got him but sorry for your losses.

RC
RC
9 years ago

The neighborhood dog did this to my chickens a couple weeks ago. Caught the dog in my pen. Almost killed it but resisted. Never know what you’ll do in a fit of rage. Sorry for your losses, its more than just an animal when they are producing for your family!

Shane
Shane
9 years ago
Reply to  RC

When I was at deer camp a dog came into our yard and killed all 4 of our turkeys. The bastard is just lucky I was not home. I dont like killing someone else’s dog but if he is killing my animals he is free game. I think it is very important to kill the dog right there dont let a wounded dog go back home.

cal
cal
9 years ago

Great job Jack and Charlie! Is a key reason we’ve held off getting chickens/ducks. Can hear coyotes that howl around us every night.

Ryan
Ryan
9 years ago

Impossible! That’s clearly a pic of you in your twenties! 😉

Congrats and have a care free Thanksgiving.

Jeremie
Jeremie
9 years ago

Good job getting rid of him. We had a skunk do that to our chickens. He would just rip open the necks and leave the body intact, never ate a one. We lost 7 in 2 days.

grog
grog
9 years ago

Jack and Charlie. Great Job. Sorry that it had to be done, however fully undersantdable. I hope the yote did not have Rabies. Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas/Yuletide and a Blessed,Healthy and Prosperous New Year to the Spirko Family.

Questions for Jack, One what caliber rifle did you use? How many shots?

How did Charlie seem to know to ‘Back off and Let Alpha Male Jack do the needful?

The last question makes me think he is a heck of alot smarter than the average dog, which is a good thing. I will watch the video and if it answers my previous questions, my bad.

Thanks for all that you do for the Survival Podast and Thanks to Dorothy for all that she does so you can do your stuff so well.

Charlie and the crew, Thanks as well for helping Jack.

Grog

Mike Centex
Mike Centex
9 years ago

I never doubted that coyote was going to end up hanging on a fence post. Should deter others for a while. Sorry for such a senseless loss of some beautiful birds. Extra kibble for Charlie!!

Jeff
Jeff
9 years ago

Closure can be grizzly. Joe and Buddy are together again. I find it amazing and disturbing how much damage that animal did in one morning. I would think as a predator it would make a kill, take it to eat or feed pups and then return for another kill and dash but killing and leaving makes it seem territorial.

Hats off to Charlie, he’s always been a good dog – I know this can’t be easy for Dorothy and I feel for you all.

Dirk
Dirk
9 years ago

Coyotes around here keep there distance, but I’ve had to shoot a raccoon and a possum killing my chickens in the coop.
Good job.

Sheryl
Sheryl
9 years ago

I recently lost 2 ducks, 4 chickens and 1 more duck I had to put down later due to her injuries. They were left in the coop in this same way. My husband said it must have been a dog because a predator would not just kill for fun. Now I wonder! The rest of my flock was terrified for days, they didn’t even want to go in the coop.

Ethan L.
Ethan L.
9 years ago

Congrats, Jack. Everyone knows that the wily coyote always has to lose in the end. At least you didn’t have to resort to the ACME TNT or falling anvil gimmick.

Dan O
Dan O
9 years ago

Was Max inside the house when this went down? I’m betting he would have dispatched that coyote with extreme prejudice.

David Bennett
9 years ago

I’m sorry for your losses Jack. Glad you got it.

David
David
9 years ago

So sorry it ended the way it did. Not sorry for the coyote but your birds. We have lost livestock to coyotes and feral dogs in the past so I understand the frustration and anger that goes with it. Losing that many at one time is a hard blow. It’s a constant battle that people outside of the farming / homesteading community don’t and can’t understand until they experience it first hand. Just know that we hurt with you.

Shane M
Shane M
9 years ago

Jack & Dorothy, Sorry to hear of such a tragic loss! Hopefully Nine Mile Farms can bounce back quick from the loss. How fitting, 9 shots to the gut and Adjuct Video #9… At least it all ended well. Good Dog Charlie!!!

In the Aspens
In the Aspens
9 years ago

Good for you and Charlie! And I’m so sorry for all your poor babies!

RationalHusker
RationalHusker
9 years ago

You may have said this, but how/where did she enter the coop and yard? Jumped a fence? If so, what kind of fence (material, electric, height, etc.) Any lessons you can share to try and avoid a future breech?

Sam
Sam
9 years ago

Good job Jack, my pit knows his job is over when the gun comes out. He will fight if I don’t bring out the gun.
Sam

Michael Jordan "The BEE Whisperer"

Good job, and way to be vigil
on it. loss of investments sucks.
good job.

jbritely
jbritely
9 years ago

Glad he is dead. He had no fear or respect of man or dog.

Lajaw
Lajaw
9 years ago

We’ve found that coyotes like to kill indiscriminately. We’ve lost goats, sheep and chickens to them. They never kill to eat it seems. As they always kill more than one and then just eat a small portion. They see killing as a sport somehow. Foxes on the other hand in my experience, try to grab one animal then run off to eat it.
The countryside is full of coyotes now. I’d like to leave them alone if they are eating rats and rabbits, but when I lived in TX, we lost a small dog to them. So if I see them, I kill them. Coyotes and wild hogs………………what a pain they are!

Christine
Christine
9 years ago

Congratulations Jack, I knew you’d get it done. Sorry for the loss of Buddy and the others.

Kayzonara
Kayzonara
9 years ago

Sorry it did even more damage. Guess you won’t be using that fur, now that Charlie peed on it and all.

I’d clap for Charlie but I know he hates that, so I’ll just give a virtual high five.

Perry
Perry
9 years ago

Good job, Jack.
NEWB QUESTION: Isn’t there a way to build chicken/duck/turkey/fowl shelters so that they can get in/out/up them, but NOT dogs, coyotes, skunks, etc?

Pa Kilter
9 years ago

Nicely done Jack and Charlie! I have a question though, when you were making your first few vids on 9 Mile I seem to remember high chain link fence that reminded me of a compound of sorts. Did I dream that or did that menace go under or through or what.

Jen
Jen
9 years ago

Jack, what a nightmare. I am so sorry for your duck/goose losses. Good for you taking out the neighborhood menace.

Chad
Chad
9 years ago

Glad you finally got him! Too bad you lost so many.

We had one a few weeks ago going after our birds in the woods in the middle of the day. He ran out into the yard and I yelled from a window and he took off before I could get out the door, shotgun in hand, to pepper his ass.

If the window hadn’t been open to where I could hear them squawking, I’m sure we would have had some dead chickens.

Jose Garcia
9 years ago

I’m glad you got rid of the yote, but it pains me to see so many good fowl killed that way.

BonnieBlue2A
BonnieBlue2A
9 years ago

So many ducks lost at once. That sucks. Poor Joe, but good boy Charlie.

Consider perhaps putting the door back on the duck shed and cutting a small duck-door to keep out larger predators like coyotes. Also, if legal in your quasi-subdivision, wired or solar electric fencing with a cattle heavy charge to extend over-outward over the unshared portions of your exterior fence and on the duck-yard fence. It would be rare for the now dead bitch not to have a pack with some of her pups nearby.

There is a indoor/outdoor wireless security camera system by Netscape with motion detection, night vision, and cloud film storage called Arlo. It will send immediate alerts to your phone (awake you at night). Something like that may provide you some peace of mind at night as this may not be the only Wile-E coming to the duck yard for a night of killing.

I really want ducks but predator losses are going to be a sad reality. I’m not sure if I’m up to facing mass killings like Dorothy’s flock suffered. I’d probably be stalking the yard with night vision or thermal camera. A good excuse to consider a silencer. No reason to wake the neighbors if the next Wile-E needs killing at dark-thirty.

Steven Harris
9 years ago

I’m very sorry for the loss but I see a lesson in this story. I think its one hell of a story on how far geese will go to protect the flock and the farm. Both of his geese gave their lives to protect the flock. Joe was found dead outside the coop, he was engaging with the coyote. Same thing probably goes for Buddy. A hero’s death for both of them. I bet you that Jack gets 2 more geese plus that 24/7 outside dog. I think this true story of woe is an excellent real life addition to the Duck Chronicles story and the tremendous video education on Ducks and the farm that Jack has produced.

Steve

Steven Harris
9 years ago

Hey Jack…. if you could go back in time a day, would you put a baby monitor in the coop to wake you up when the geese were sqwacking and the ducks were making a ruckus because of the predator ?? Do you think that would of given you an early warning of trouble ??

Steve

Brad
Brad
9 years ago

Great work Jack, sorry for your losses. But at least you nailed the culprit!

Kelly Ware
9 years ago

My friend here in Panama has had 6 neighborhood dogs try to com kill her ducks. After the first death toll and a warning to her neighbor, she put an electric wire around the pond and duck house and turned it on nightly when her ducks were locked in the pen. I don’t know what voltage she has but it alone kills the dogs. The wire is about 8-12 inches off the ground. Works wonders to eradicate the threat.

Strensk
Strensk
9 years ago

Glad you finally got the bugger.

Charlie deserves a treat!

George Coe II
George Coe II
9 years ago

Glad this one is over…. Good job to both of you.

David E in Houston
David E in Houston
9 years ago

Sorry for your horrendous loss. It is good his coyote will no longer menace your farm. Hats off to Charlie.

Jose Garcia
9 years ago

At the ranch, the most fierce dog ever against coyotes was a big border collie mutt. I have found that herding dogs will lay their life for the stock they’re entrusted with.

I too have experienced the same thing with GSD, they are not very driven dogs for live stock protection, despite their size. Perhaps it’s the American lines that have taken that out of the dogs in the US.

Chad
Chad
9 years ago
Reply to  Jose Garcia

Hey Jose,

I think about dogs more as individuals than breeds. I’ve known some damn good mutts in my day, some herding mixes, some not. I think most dogs that come to love his/her family, full-bred or mix, develop an instinct to protect their pack. It always comes down to kindness. Kindness given, fierce protection tends to follow. That’s why I love dogs.

Jose Garcia
9 years ago
Reply to  Chad

A dog’s courage is primarily a function of his temperament. Some dogs simply don’t have it. In a farm, there are usually 3 or 4 dogs, whole not neutered, that form and work in a pack. The younger dogs learn from the older. One dog alone, even if it’s big, unless he traps the coyote will not be able to kill it simply because coyotes run fast. Many times coyotes work in packs and send scouts to lure single inexperienced dogs away from the farm. A dog in a farm without more experienced canine mentors is bound to fall in this trap.

Dogs don’t experience love in the same way humans do. For them it’s all about the basic needs and a rigid hierarchy. Food, shelter and a stable environment is all they need.

The border collie mutt that I mentioned killed many coyotes in his life never worked alone. He had two smaller compadres that would flank the coyote around the balls, hind legs and gut. The collie, being 80 lbs, would deliver a crushing bite to the back of the yote’s neck.

DLarricq
DLarricq
9 years ago

I’m glad you got her Jack! Thanks for letting us in on what it takes to be a homesteadfarmingbadass. I look forward to meeting you at PV3.

BigSkyHunter
BigSkyHunter
9 years ago

For those of you interested in a current study being done about livestock guard dogs to protect from coyotes, wolves, bears, and mountain lions, here is a link to an article just posted today.

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2015/11/24/study-dogs-used-protect-livestock-expands/76320944/

It covers some breeds that you probably haven’t heard of. Just another avenue to explore.

David Hogan
David Hogan
9 years ago

Thinking back and looking forward, do you think there was or is anything to do differently in your setup that could prevent or limit the casualties in the event of another coyote or pair of foxes targets your livestock?

Condolences on the extent of the loss.

David

Brent Eamer
Brent Eamer
9 years ago

Hopefully you took away some good post event info. And made changes accordingly. No time for woulda, coulda, shoulda. A little rifle practice, predator gone. We lost two ducks and four chickens this year to Weasels, and they make a mess as well, basically ripping the innards of the birds inside out. It is frustrating, since four of the eggs hatched and we had four chicks maturing and they were wiped out. We have Coyotes up here as well. Thank god for no Fishers.

Leszek
Leszek
9 years ago

Jack and Dorothy, sorry for your loss. We really are sorry as we know all your animals are like family there. Good job on getting a predator! Hope your Thanksgiving Day is better!
Les and Cookie

Dennis Skalla
Dennis Skalla
9 years ago

Sorry for your losses and I am glad you rid the neighborhood of that coyote. We do shut our duck flock in at night. I think you will continue to experience losses if you don’t. We have also had five different Livestock Guardian Dogs on our farm and one thing they all have in common is they bark and/or howl through the night. This is a good thing with regards to predator control, but can be rough on your own sleep cycle. We did eventually get used to it.
I think the hot wire is the way to go, one low and one high so predators cannot dig under or climb over without getting hit. Let me know if you want pictures of our fence and hot wire set up. Good Luck

Donnie
Donnie
9 years ago

Sorry for your loss. I’m glad you got him. Years ago my step dad kept coming up with goats missing. He thought someone was stealing them. There were no remains found and all the missing goats were very young. I told him it was probably a coyote but he said coyotes couldn’t get in his goat fence. One evening a coyote snatched a baby goat and ran off with it while my mother was watching. He waged war on coyotes and as far as I know he hasn’t had any more problems.

David klassen
David klassen
9 years ago

Got some

David
David
9 years ago

Jack,
A coyote killed a grown Royal Palm turkey on my property this morning after the sun was up. It then went to my neighbors house ~ 300 yards away and killed another one of his chickens (third in two weeks)… Would appreciate info on trapping this P.O.S. so we can eliminate it permanently. We did get a pic of it from a game camera and, like the one you dispatched, is huge. Thanks, Dave