Rural Gardening: COYOTES ... free ranging danger, 1 by Photographer

Photographer wrote:
This morning I found my Game Fowl hen whose been brooding 4 of my precious little guinea fowl keets; 1 Buff, 1 Platinum, 2 Pearl .... is short 1 Buff guinea keet. She's also chewed up on her backside ... missing a bunch of feathers and limping slightly. Only a coyote could snatch a month old guinea keet and still manage to wound the hen to this extent in one swift attack. I'm a bit sad. Mostly aggravated at the hen for walking so far off. The down side to having the rather lush and beautiful hop field only 15 to 100 ft from our driveway is coyotes use the hop vines as a means of hiding their activity and getting very close to the poultry without being detected.

Now that the dust has settled ... the hen is sticking close to the house ... way inside our perimeter fence line by 60 to 200 ft. She's in digging around in the gardens ... like1 ft from the wall of the house.

Kelly in Moxee