Coyotes raising a ruckus
Don't know whats got them going tonight but they have been yipping and howling across the neighbors horse pasture for the last half hour. This time of night I don't think the neighbors would appreciate me showing up with my caller, light and rifle.
Two years ago we had a fox raise her family just inside the tree line 25 yards behind the house. Don't have any animals the foxes can bother so I left them alone. Kinda cool watching the young ones explore the yard and wrestle each other as they grew up. Probably won't see that again as coyotes and foxes don't get along. Bob
Two years ago we had a fox raise her family just inside the tree line 25 yards behind the house. Don't have any animals the foxes can bother so I left them alone. Kinda cool watching the young ones explore the yard and wrestle each other as they grew up. Probably won't see that again as coyotes and foxes don't get along. Bob
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When they show up howling and yipping the deer disappear for a while. It really screws up my deer hunting.
I suspect they also take a lot of wild turkey chicks as I see the size of the flocks shrink rapidly.
When I hear them at night...I take my night vision scope for a walk.0 -
They have wiped out the ground hog population around here, but rabbits and squirrels seem to be making a comeback.
I?m thinking of taking up trapping the yore?s. Some guys I know have had some success with that. They are sneaky critters.0 -
Local High School Gym coach traps Yotes every year. He gets 100-150 a season! He is quite legend around here.......jimdeere wrote:They have wiped out the ground hog population around here, but rabbits and squirrels seem to be making a comeback.
I?m thinking of taking up trapping the yore?s. Some guys I know have had some success with that. They are sneaky critters.0 -
Back about 25 years ago my wife's grandma had an issue with coyotes getting into her chicken coop and killing them. So, we started actively hunting them. They were very vocal at night too, carrying on all night. Once we shot a few we saw how unhealthy they were. All had mange, one looked to have pink eye, etc. They were all generally very unwell. Anyway, we shot all we saw in the area for the rest of that year and then left them alone. We didn't see them much for a couple of years. When the population did finally rebound, they were much healthier, no mange, and most importantly, they have not tried to get into the chickens since (but they did kill a rooster that got to where he didn't want to go in at night).
I actually like to listen to the coyotes. Which, even to me is odd because when former neighbors had barking dogs, it irritated the living $@^*@^*(@ out of me!0 -
Coyotes around here have really put a dent in the deep population.
They get hungrey like all Gods creatures and are oppurtuistic hunters.0 -
A lot of the yipping you hear early in the evening are locator calls, they are just trying to find out where everyone is at. Here in a little while you should start to hear the young ones trying to learn how to yip, there not very good at first. I always have best luck busting them in the early mornings, trying to keep the sun to my back along the side of a field. 0 -
Trapping coyotes is a lesson in frustration IMHO. Probably easier in a semi-urban area where travel is restricted. 0 -
They're a real problem. They raise havoc with fawns, young turkeys and drive the fox population out of the county. The more you do away with them, the more the left over population thrives due to the additional "food" sources that are now available! 0 -
I can hear them carrying on outside right now. 0 -
When they really get cranked up it's usually because a female is in heat and it draws in the males. Coyotes don't pack up like wolves do. Once a litter breaks up If you see a bunch together something caused that, usually a female in heat or a food source. 0
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