Coyotes and chickens

One perk of living on a plot of land is that you have room for animals.  Our goal in the next year or so is to raise some chickens and possibly goats.  Horses will come in the next 2-3 years.

One of the pitfalls of living on a plot of land is that there are coyotes that live nearby.  Quite nearby.  Over the last three days, one of our neighbors has lost all nine of their chickens to coyotes.  All NINE chickens!  They are quite upset over this, naturally, but in the future, they will probably build a coop to house their chickens - if they get more chickens that is...

Goodbye, fair chickens.  Your eggs were really yummy...

Now, to do some research on chicken coops so we don't suffer the same fate when we get chickens...