ShadowHunter
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It depends on where you live. Different areas have different perdators. I live in upstate New York, and we have coyotes, wolves, bears and foxes. I never had any predation problems with any of them, but I used to loose a lot of chickens to a neighbor's dog. to keep my goats and sheep safe, I kept guard animals with them. In my case, I used llamas as guard animals. They were very good guard animals and they got along well with my goats and sheep.I am wondering, how much of a problem are natural predators in livestock management? Like is it easy to keep farm animals protected against wild animals like foxes / wolves / etc and is it considered to be a common problem? Is the problem as easy to solve as just simply putting fences all around a farm?
Is there currently any methods or technology that is an effective countermeasure against livestock predators?