[blackdog]

I've got coyotes all around in huge numbers. I open graze my flock of sheep on 80 acres. They spend all year out there. My largest predation losses have been from owls after their chicks have hatched in May(they kill lambs at night and eat the soft tissues of the head/brain/face to feed the chicks) and eagles who will peck the eyes out of the real old ewe and then spend a week carving out strips of flesh while it wanders around blind until it dies.

The guardian dog has not been much help on airborne predators. The Bard Owl problem only lasts a few weeks in May and those ewes who lose a lamb immediately breed back and pop out lambs in september/october. After the third coyote carcass left in the feedlot by the dog, we've never had a coyote problem since. No shots fired and no antifreeze.

[Army Air Corps]

My great gandfather had the same problem with raptors. He took care of the coyotes with a .270 or an Army surplus M-1. He would keep the lambs in the lambing barn as long as he could so as to reduce losses to raptors.