Most coyotes readily cross over, under, or through conventional livestock fences.
Nevertheless, as early as 1908, experiments were conducted with various configurations of barrier-type fencing to protect sheep from coyotes. Some fences completely surrounded a sheep pasture to totally exclude predators. Others were designed as drift fences to discourage coyotes from entering while diverting or directing them away from livestock. Woven wire fences along with coyote removal were used extensively in the Edwards Plateau of Texas to exclude predators from wide expanses of rangeland. However, deterioration of these fences over the years and changes in predation control practices have rendered most of them ineffective.