I’ve got two Great Pyrenees/Anatolian mix puppies that ought to be able to scare the coyotes off with their bark this year and kick their arses next year. We have meat goats but that’s our meat dammit.
Their bark alone should keep them at bay. I have never lost any of my herd, chickens or small pets to coyotes since having the pyrs- one is 146 lbs! Our neighbor kids were taunting them, and getting their dogs to bark at them through the fence when they were puppies and I warned their parents that these are not dogs that you wanted on your bad side. They are gentle and docile but they are very protective of their charge and can easily scale a fence. My other neighbors grandchildren made friends with them and feed them treats so they love to see them.
Anyway, the neighbor with the taunting kids did not stop them and I ended up putting a tall privacy fence all the way down that side of my property line.
About the coyotes, most of my neighbors are armed and all have acreage. It is not unusual at all to hear gunshots for coyotes, foxes, bobcats, etc. Sadly, we have had a lot of woke/city/liberals moving into the area and they bemoan on Nextdoor about the “poor coyotes” - how we should trap them and set them free, etc. And the coyote population was increasing for a while. But it seems some locals had had enough and cleared out a good many of them (the coyotes, not the liberals, lol)
Grand Pyrenees are some of my fav dogs - I don’t own any because you need a shopvac just to clean up their hair though.
They will kill coyotes easily.