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| I was haying my colts tonight and feeding the barn cats when all of a sudden a shrill cry filled the night. It sounded like it was just down the hill. Luckily; I am learning how sound travels on the farm, it was more likely that the cry came from my second field. Still too close for comfort. Not even a minute later there were 5 or six more cries. Coyotes, and lots of them. I am not sure if it is the weather or that there is alot of food for them. I can admit that it gives me chills and I am happy to have my dogs (all four of them) I am hoping that they would save me.
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| yes even I get the willies when I hear that sound.
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When I was working for the railroad, we were just outside of Sheridan Wyoming in a very lonely stretch of railroad track. We were on a siding but you could not see a single light in the sky...absolutely no houses around...it was isolated.
A kid from the city was on the crew and once the coyotes started howling (a few hundred yards away) he came up to me. "They won't get me," he said and showed me a screwdriver he had. I laughed and said, "You might stab the first one but the other 10 will get you."
Later on that night I told the rest of the crew to just start running when I did. We waited until the city kid was in a very tight, hard to get out of spot and then I started screaming. I was yelling coyote, coyote and started chucking rocks at the darkness. Then we all started running leaving the kid to fend for himself. He bolted out of there, shredding his clothes on wires, cotter keys and hydraulic lines in an attempt to leave dodge at 100 mph. We would have made it to the caboose but all of us were laughing to hard to hard to continue the charade!
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We have plenty of coyotes here too. When they kill a rabbit, its that final screech from that bunny that gives me the chills.
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| The thing I miss the most about having had to move to the edge of this small town is hearing the coyotes at night. I used to hear them every night at my place in Az. The only spooky time I ever had with them was when I was in a campground and walked my dogs in the forest early in the am. A pack surrounded us but never did anything aggressive. It seemed that they were playing more than anything else. This is not to say that they did not do some damage to my chickens until I got my LGDs. I actually was more nervous about the javalina. I had an experience out walking the same dogs where the dogs saw a small herd and took off down the hill after them. About 60 seconds later, the dogs came tearing up the hill with the javalina after them!! We headed home very soon after that one!! What I want to hear is a wolf howling in the wild...and so far I haven't managed that yet. Mary Ann
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| The closet I've ever seen them was when my butt was in the air in the smaller chicken coop coming backwards with an arm full of hay at day break and there stood a male about 200 yds from the moveable chicken pen fence. (Looking for a meal, I guess) It did not sound off and it stayed a while and then off across the road it went. I looked towards his direction and saw several others. This one scared me more because it seamed to have lost it's fear of humans and La-La was sound asleep on the front porch. I would of hated to call her name for she WOULD of gone after them. For a while I would see him jumping from hay bail to bail and then one day a shot rang out and never heard or seen that one again. Now a few weeks back around 1 a mom and babies came through. It's it the wrong time to have pups on the ground for them. I haven't heard them again.
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| This reminds me of a story from when I was 17. I was night hunting for coons with my hunting buddy, Tony. We climbed down a small bluff about 50 yards high to hunt in the hollow at the base of the bluff. After hunting for a while we decided to try our luck somewhere else and began climbing back up the bluff. Just as we began to climb, we heard an unearthly screech/cry coming from farther down the hollow. When we were about half way up the bluff we heard the screech/cry again, this time much closer. When we heard the noise we began climbing more rapidly. Just as we reached the top of the bluff we heard the hideous noise again, this time coming from the base of the bluff right below us, where we had been hunting just a few minutes before. Scared out of our wits, we ran as fast as we could all the way back to my car about a half-mile away. We were pretty shaken at that point. The thought never occurred to either of us that the shotguns we carried gave us the means to defend ourselves. I grew up in the woods and spent a lot of time outside at night, many times alone, without fear. But that night, I was terrified! To this day I have no idea what made that awful noise.
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It was probably Sasquatch Doug! (LOL)
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| I guess it could have been MoMo, the Missouri Monster, who was sighted several times in the late 70's north of where we live
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| I need to know what a Javalina is. I am not sure if it is a joke or if there really is sch a thing. I love everyones stories, these are true campfire stories as they are so close to home. Maybe that awful screech was a cougar or a bobcat.
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There is a pretty good show on the History Channel called Monster Quest that deals with this sort of stuff, from the Jersey Devil, to Sasquatch and they do some pretty convincing stuff to say that some of these things are real. I guess if you are a cynic you wouldn't believe anything, or if you are gullible, you believe everything, but I felt the program hit the middle ground pretty good.
As for me, I have never really really seen or heard anything super scary. I do know there are bears around as evidenced by the corn they eat, but I have only seen 2 in my 35 years of life.
That does lead to a question though, do any of you carry handguns when you go out? I never have, even if it is 10 pm at night and I am fixing sheep fence. The reason I ask is, on another forum this turned into a huge debate ending in the majority thinking I am stupid to do so. But they say here in Maine (in a hunter safety manual called "Alone in the Maine Woods) that "there is nothing in Maine that can harm you."
I think that is pretty much the truth. I mean if you do something stupid like get in the way of a Moose and her Calf you might get in trouble, but to just do farming stuff, I don't feel I need to carry a gun. I haven't heard of any bear mauling s here, nor any wild animals killing people. Even with black bear around, I think they are more afraid of me then I ever would be of them.
Just curious as to what other people do on their farms...
I love vegetarians...slice them real thin, dip them in ranch dressing and they compliment lamb quite well! :-)
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