The Colonel isn't dead

[FJ540]

The bird is still alive and well.

A coon tried to get in, but failed. We also have a white yote who's VERY interested in him.

You guys have to wait for video and pics till I get home.

[FJ540]

I put my e-caller on top of the pen and both the duck and chicken are trying to talk to the wounded rabbit. It's hilarious.

[BemidjiDweller]

I put my e-caller on top of the pen and both the duck and chicken are trying to talk to the wounded rabbit. It's hilarious.

I gotta see this, video please!

[FJ540]

They just get loud. I'm not sure they're doing much of anything when they respond. I also have a "chicks" track and that get's The Col. involved, but Hansel shuts up.

They may end up as pets. lol

I guess Hansel has been around predators for most of his life, so they should be ok when trouble arrives.

[timwarner]

You could tether the chicken to a stake and set snare traps all around it. Might be fun baiting and trapping. I would use loop snares set about 10" diameter a couple inches off the ground. A good strength fishing line should work well.

[FJ540]

I might make a pen for them so they can get more excersize.

My yote is nomadic on my lot. I'm not sure how big his range is, but neighbors have reported seeing the white one 3 miles away.

[yuppiejr]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/153605/zac-br ... icken-live

[EJSG19]

some traps might be the answer if its already after your bait. furbearing regulations come into play i assume

[FJ540]

Live trapping would be the only thing you could get away with out of season. I hope he doesn't live that long.

I do wonder if a simple box trap could be rigged though. Getting him all excited with the birds might make him do stupid things (it works with people and deer ) - so if I made a cage that connected up to the pen and was the only access at the birds (wall them in), then put some canned dog food (the yote eats it right up) in there - it could work.

I deleted the video off the SD card, but my duck is scaring coons away - these guys are a riot to watch. I left the mostly full 50# bag of chicken scratch just sitting next to the cage last night and the only coon who dared come close took off running as soon as Hansel noticed him leering.

If they can make it two weeks (with plenty of food and water), I'm going to potentially keep them till they die of natural causes. We have a relative on kiddo's side who already has chickens, so we'll see if they can winter over there. My neighbors would bomb my house if I had The Col. here. He crows multiple times an hour from 5 to 9:30 am.

Freaking tent caterpillar in front of the lens.



The rest are all videos. Click the pic and it'll play.

I'm pretty sure the neighbors dog even shows up in one of these. I'll have to verify and make sure it's posted. I also have a good night shot of him without the stupid worm.

[FJ540]

I have videos for every other 30 second interval from 6:12 to 6:49am - he spent a good bit of energy barking at the bird tuesday. Even had to lay down and rest a few times he was so worked up.

This is their first encounter (click to watch):



The Col. finally wakes up.



Nice shot of the yote.



Found the one where the neighbors dog arrives - it's the only time the bird goes nuts. Keep in mind, that thing had to travel over a 1/4 mile to get where it was.



I think he's handling the yote in stride, considering...





I have 15 mins of this footage. I only wish I'd been there with a gun.

[FJ540]

I spent a lot of time uploading this crap and then you guys don't watch it.

[photogpat]

Are you sure thats a coyote? The way the white one is wagging its tail and barking its head off makes it seem like a dog...plus, it looks pretty darn well fed. The darker one that you identified as the neighbor's dog seems pretty fricken calm around a coyote if that is one.

Does the neighbor have two dogs?

[JJ]

Are you sure thats a coyote? The way its wagging its tail and barking its head off makes it seem like a dog...plus, it looks pretty darn well fed.

I agree. Maybe a neighbor that doesn't live on the same street. That, or it is just a feral dog now. Obviously no collar, so i wouldn't hesitate to pull the trigger, but I doubt that is a yote.

Esp considering it didn't go after the dog. Yotes and dogs seldom are willing to occupy the same space. If it was a truly wild yote, he would have tried to chase off that other dog.

[FJ540]

I'm thinking they've already come to an agreement over who's the bigger badass and that other dog won. You can always hear yotes and the neighbors dogs barking at each other in the night. I just wish more of my neighbors were like my buddy Kent (he's kitty corner from my lot on 210 acres) - he'll shoot them from the dining room if he sees them in his fields. Pups and all! I owe him a beer.

So here's the same white one last summer:



And I think this is his mate:



I had the traditional colored one following me at 11:33am in October, and I think that's the one that was snooping out Norsesmithy in November. It stays closer to the swamp, where the white one has never been seen that far west (close to the cabins).

The white one has been approaching some of the lake people, but it won't let them touch it. That's why I don't think it's a feral dog. It could be crossbred from someone's pet and a yote. We have a lot of idiots on the lake who feed these critters and have no idea that they'll chew on a toddler just as soon as they'd chase down a squirrel if given the chance. They're not afraid of people, and that's part of why I want to take them out so badly.

I'd post up the video of the little one following me, but it's only in frame for about 3 seconds at the very beginning of the clip. I happened to check my phone while I was checking sign at a mineral site and had walked right behind the camera moments prior. It didn't have any footage on it when I checked it as I headed out that morning, so I was planning on just moving it, but noticed there were 2 videos where there should've only been the one of me walking out that morning. I was within 50' of it, and had no idea. Now I stop and look behind me a lot more when I'm walking out there.

[FJ540]

White one's tracks from last year:



9" wide atv tires for reference.