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Late to the party as usual but I wanted to express my sincerest sympathies to you all Nanno. I am really sorry to hear this and coincidentally it had been on my mind for several weeks. I had been lulled into a false sense of security due to my goats being full size, obviously that is no guarantee. (Neither of mine have horns either.) This has been the third person in the past two weeks that I know of that has lost a full size goat to coyotes. Aaaagh! They are obviously out there and the coldness of this winter seems to be increasing their boldness to take advantage of all opportunities.
So happy for you on your LGD, she looks beautiful. While size is nice, I have my doubts that the size thing is critical in this case. I actually think that it is likely that +99% of the coyote threat can be deterred by LGD even if they never fight.
Anyway your thread had motivated me to move on my concerns for my goat's safety, now and in the future.(I get my 4 new kids in the spring.) I will post more on this in a separate thread.
Hang in there Nanno, I don't think this in anyway is your fault, things happen no matter what we do.
TOU
P.S. Maybe we should add a sub-forum about LGD's to share info etc?
So happy for you on your LGD, she looks beautiful. While size is nice, I have my doubts that the size thing is critical in this case. I actually think that it is likely that +99% of the coyote threat can be deterred by LGD even if they never fight.
Anyway your thread had motivated me to move on my concerns for my goat's safety, now and in the future.(I get my 4 new kids in the spring.) I will post more on this in a separate thread.
Hang in there Nanno, I don't think this in anyway is your fault, things happen no matter what we do.
TOU
P.S. Maybe we should add a sub-forum about LGD's to share info etc?