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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

The guy that raises the sheep that youngest has been buying to show at fair 
has geese that he has free roaming his pastures.  He gathers up the eggs 
they lay and incubates them and turns them out.  He says they are the food 
for the predators.  Seems to work as he rarely looses a lamb.  Seems the 
predators go after the geese first who raise an unholy racket and the sheep 
run for the barn while the cats or coyotes are busy with the geese.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen L. Black" <karen AT plamondon.com>


> It varies by state; but in Oregon at least, wildlife that is killing your
> livestock is not protected (outside of birds of prey). We've had trouble
> with raccoons, coyotes and bobcats going after our chickens. The last are
> perfectly willing to jump an electric fence that stops the other two
> predators.
>
> Our state trapper works for Fish and Wildlife, and covers two or three
> counties (paid for from our property taxes). We learned how to set snares
> from following him around and watching how he did it. When our county
> decided to stop paying him, we did it ourselves.
>
> My son saw a cougar at the east end of our property, and our immediate
> neighbor had lambs and goat kids taken by some predator. If it went after 
> my
> chickens, I would not hesitate to get rid of it, but I haven't seen 
> evidence
> that it does.
>
> Karen Black
> Norton Creek Farm
> Blodgett, OR
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