Northern Rancher said:
What have you got for eagles there. We used to run our sheepin with our cows and they went through some pretty coyote and bear infested country without too much losses-they'll stay in a bit less formidable fencing then too.
The largest birds of prey we have in my area are some decent-sized hawks, but nothing that I could imagine would ever attack a calf, or even a lamb for that matter.
Oh, we've also got our share of rattlesnakes but fortunately they're not very aggressive. As it relates to snakes, my problem here is that I don't yet know what's poisonous and what's not. Back in the states, at a glance I could tell whether a snake was trouble or not. Here, to the locals, just about everything is poisonous, though I suspect they're more often wrong than right.