Officials get complaints about growing population and growing risk.
“In the evenings, we hear them making their kills,” Richard Sacks said about coyotes slaughtering their prey near his home on Brierhill Road. Such incidents are making Deerfield residents nervous about their safety as well as that of their pets in venturing outside. “I carry Mace with me now in the backyard when I’m gardening,” his wife, Lousie, said about her fear of coyotes that often walk across the lawn at midday. “You don’t even feel safe in your own backyard.” The Sacks along with several others have noticed a drastic increase in the local coyote population over the past year. “We keep a baseball bat by our backdoor,” said their neighbor, Terry Schwartz, after a recent scary incident involving her small dog. “He barked to go out,” …
The annual "Eggs to Chicks" exhibit--which ends this Sunday--gives visitors a closeup view of newborn chickens.
Every day, about two new chicks are hatching at Glenview’s Kohl Children’s Museum. During the annual Eggs to Chick exhibit (March 15-May 16), nearly 120 are born and spend their first eight days of life at Kohl, recently named one of the country's 10 best children's museums by Parents Magazine. Less than a decade ago Java chickens were an endangered species. Most farmers had come to prefer raising Babcock chickens, who produce the yellow chicks commonly associated with spring. Scientists began to worry that a lack of genetic diversity could cause the poultry industry to be devastated by a bird virus, and began efforts to bring back the Javas. “It’s a breed that was popular in the 1800s because they’re very hearty and can stay outside in …
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6:40 pm on Tuesday, December 4, 2012
I have a very gentle dog a little larger than a st bernard the breed is a newfoundland he weights in about 160 pounds and i watched 12 coyotes jump him in an attempt to bring him down when they get that desperate even people are at risk..I dont live in this town i live farther south in dewitt county and i know firsthand what they are capable of.. more ›