Just saw a coyote out in our lower pasture - in broad daylight

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10. If we breed our horses again, I ca't afford to even lose one foal

And I worry when the wildlife does not act normally - this coyote seemed too bold, too unafraid. I don't want to be out here alone and have an overly aggressive one come after me. I had some incidents with people aggressive dogs a few years ago and it scared me. I am just not mobile enough to get away from a determined predator, even a medium sized one like a coyote.

It used to be when we had aggressive dogs in the neighborhood, we still had horses that were canine aggressive. It was a danger to the dogs to enter the pastures. My stallion took a hunk out of one dog's back. And one day I watched two of my mares chase a Rottweiller for fifteen minutes before it could get away and out of their pasture. Then two of the colts in that next pasture decided to emulate their mamas and they chased the dog for a good amount of time before it ran for home.

But the mares I still have grew up in a period where there were few canines in the neighborhood and they never watched their dams going after dogs, foxes or coyotes. Today they all ignored the coyote. That could change if they had foals at their sides, but I'd prefer to not take a chance!