The Movie “The Biggest Little Farm” was good and entertaining, a movie how a couple brought a farm back to life near LA with organic methods. However I was skeptical of its supposed account of coyotes.
They let the coyotes go and do as they pleased and actually benefitted as they ate the small vermin like mice etc So the occasional chicken or duck they took was sort of a tax but worth it.
I was raised as a farm boy and we had chickens and ducks. My experience wasn’t at all like that. Once a coyote got one kill they became almost addicted and wouldn’t stop until the flock was wiped out. Unlike this article we seldom managed to stop them as they were crafty and would sneak in the dead of night. It sounds fine to stay up all night with a light and a gun but that gets tiring very fast. Usually either the flock would just be eaten or we’d have to lock them up for a few months until the coyotes left.
Maybe LA coyotes are different than ones in Indiana???
Here in GA even I the suburbs if you don’t lock your chickens up at night either the coyotes, raccoons or red tailed hawks will get them all.
[[It sounds fine to stay up all night with a light and a gun but that gets tiring very fast]]
Increase the odds of them coming in quickly by using prefator calls of wounded Animals. The coyotes Wil. Fairly quickly learn that the area is unsafe for them after you down a few, although I saw a hunting video on YouTube where they wiped out an entire group of coyotes one after the other, in one night, (they were killing livestock by the bushelfulls, and needed to be thinned out) and the coyotes would run off, and then come back to investigate the area. I thought one shot and the others would,scatter, but they didn’t. They stayed right in the vicinity, and kept coming back into shooting range.
I woudl,think though that if you got enough of one group of coyotes, that it would cut down on the damage they do. Usually it is one clan at a time that will be a problem. Unless the area is just infested with them