Coyote problems??

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I've been wondering what kind of "problems" you are aware of in your area and what is done about them? Just read an article from a newspaper from the state Washington about people who are worried about walking their pets, especially small dogs. Apparently there have been some brazen attacks from coyotes in neighborhoods. In my area we have some problems with coyotes during our cattle calving season. But most ranchers carry rifles and kill them whenever they appear. My niece and her husband raise cattle but the coyotes don't pose much of a problem. Around their house is another story. They have lots of farm cats and coyotes frequently kill kittens. I have another friend who cannot seem to keep chickens. I live in NE Kansas and we have an abundance of coyotes. I call coyotes in western Kansas and they have lots of coyotes there. How about your area? What kind of coyote problems do you have? What solutions do you employ? Of course we varmint hunters just shoot them. Read a story in our local newspaper, which is owned by some local tree huggers. They suggest banging pots and pans together to frighten them away; that'll teach 'em:):confused:
 
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I'm in central Outer Montana & live on a small ranch. We have a large population of coyotes and they are a problem. Right now the Feds & huggies are trying to limit ag people from use of government land in order to protect the sage grouse. Back when coyotes were controlled by poisoning, cattlemen actually ran more pairs on land & the grouse had a very healthy population. When 1080 use ceased, the coyote population rose dramatically. And species that they feed upon, like the ground nesting sage grouse and their eggs, have declined.

I'm not advocating renewed 1080 use, that'd never fly in today's P.C. climate. However, I'd like to see far more effective help for the ag people concerning coyotes from our various government entities.

900F
 
Conibear traps. Cures coyote problems right up. Just leave them unset for a couple days after catching a coyote or you will catch a buzzard.
 
I remember when I first moved out here in '92 that my wife and I had just drove up to our home and there trotting down the street was a full grown coyote, following a young woman pushing a stroller. Needless to say I brought her attention to the coyote and had her come into my gated front yard. The coyote kind of just sat there for a few minutes and then trotted off. Right in front of a residential street. Believe me I started hunting coyotes shortly after that.

I notified humane society and about 2 hours later they finally sent an agent out to my home. Told me that because of the drought quite a few coyotes had started to migrate into the residential areas. Note: We live in a desert area and there is always a drought as far as I'm concerned, but I haven't seen one in my neighborhood since that time. I would have to say we don't have a problem with coyotes, I see one when I'm out hunting I shoot it no problem.:rolleyes:
 
Pretty common around here, in and out of town. I stopped the truck to snap this one's picture. All it did was give me a dirty look.
 

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I recently bought a house/land up here in NW Montana and the previous owner lost two dogs to coyotes. He had Dachshunds which probably aren't much of a match against a pack of coyotes. I have two Rottweilers but always go outside with them at night and carry a firearm and light with me just in case. We have bear, mountain lion and wolves too so I'm a little concerned for my dogs when it's dark. I hear coyotes every day and the other morning I saw some folks down in the valley below me shoot one. The coyotes howl like crazy whenever a police/ambulance/fire engine siren goes off nearby ... it's quite amusing really. We can hunt varmints with suppressors up here so I'm prepared in the event that they become a problem for me and my dogs.
 
If Washington has a coyote problem, that's news to me. I live in a pretty rural farming town and I haven't seen a single coyote in the last six months. We've got a couple cats who stay outside 24/7 for rodent control, and we don't have any dogs. If yotes were such an issue, those cats would be dead. The younger one is almost eight years old.
 
We deal with a lot of them. Myself and one of my neighbors half mile or so away will spend some evenings calling them into our buck shot. Yotes are very smart, and once they realize a particular area is a threat they will usually avoid that area for a little while. But hunger and the temptation of any easy meal always gets the best of them, and they will inevitably return. A good number of my neighbors have lost pets and live stock, mostly chicken and goats to those pests.

Some folks poison them, but I'm not a proponent of that tactic, as other animals, including hunting dogs become unintended victims.

When I lived in New Mexico the federal wildlife people would use cyanide gas baited devices, they touch the bait and get a blast of gas, kills them almost instantly. I came close to losing a champion german short hair from one of those devices. I some how managed to miss seeing the signs posted, but I saw the red tipped post and realized we were in a baited area just in time, I hit his collar button just in the nick on time, as he was heading straight for the bait.

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I go varmint hunting with my brother in law up on the Mogollon rim. Coyote is always in season but is not the main problem. We are trusted and hunt private land most of the time. Once or more a year he gets a call and we head out to due control work. What we have become very good at is feral canine control. It seems some urbanized folks don't believe in animal control and release their pets back along county roads. Once released they tend to pack up and take down whatever they get hold of.

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They've gotten most of my chickens, got 3 banties left had to pen up. No more free ranging the grass hoppers around the woods. I went out Saturday evening and tried calling with no luck. Might try this evening. There's lots of 'em around here. Get their pix on my game camera and hear 'em every evening and morning all around. Be kinda tough to thin 'em out by hunting, but traps are out. Don't wanna catch my dog.
 
What we have become very good at is feral canine control. It seems some urbanized folks don't believe in animal control and release their pets back along county roads. Once released they tend to pack up and take down whatever they get hold of.
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That is always a problem in rural areas. I've had to put down dogs in the past, but it's SSS if you want to avoid the law. Animal cruelty can be charged in Texas except when you actually catch 'em after your livestock which has happened to me with the chickens. I leave 'em no quarter, myself. The few neighbors I have, I know their dogs and they know mine. Heck, they play together a lot. They all have collars. Strange dog comes into the area, well, he probably ain't gonna be around long if I don't take him out. I'll do the deed if I catch one after my chickens.
 
Coyotes in the Northeast.

We have coyotes now in the Northeast USA. They arrived not long ago. I go back to hunting here from the 1950's and they were not here then.

The woodchucks are gone now from the meadows. Woodchucks were my favorite hunting. There are books written about chuck hunting and I have chuck rifles.

The great chuck hunting was when they would burrow in a field and we could shoot them from a distance.. That was great rifle sport and the farmers gave permission to hunt their farms. They wanted us getting the chucks. Now they don't need us.

The coyote has ruined my favorite hunting.
 
Kentucky, they often come around rural homes at night and try to lure your pet dogs away from the home and lights then they will attack by numbers and injure if not kill your pet. They sense when a cow is about to calve and will sometimes chase the pregnant cow to cause it to abort or they will lay around the field for a few days and wait for the birth and then kill the calf and eat the afterbirth. If your herd has a few cows with chewed up tails the coyotes have been chasing them. A neighbor had several cows that were chased through a barb-wire fence and had cuts a vet had to sew up. Groundhogs are very scarce as well as red foxes and a large number of deer fawns disappear. To me it seems their territory is so large you'll hear them for a few nights and they disappear for a few weeks then return to the area. At least around my area they do. They don't seem to be a major issue YET in suburban or city but they are around.
 
They turn up occasionally pretty much everywhere these days....
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I read in the article that "The coyote is resting at a wildlife center with leg fractures" Somehow this just doesn't sit right. I don't believe coyotes are on any State or Federal threatened or endangered lists therefore rehabbing one is a complete waste of money. Oh heck, what do I know.
 
coyotes are tough to take out reliably hunting, or I just don't know what I'm doing. I've never had luck going after them specifically, but see them while deer hunting or turkey hunting and take them out when I get the chance.

Turkey calls always seem to bring them in. I would think trapping is the best way, and the hides are worth something if you live somewhere that gets cold, in the south not so much.

I could see them being a problem for people with pets or livestock, but that is the problem with any predators, everything eats. I have lost a lot more chickens to raccoons than coyote. A light seemed to keep the coons away, doubt it'd work with coyotes though.
 
We're having more & more sightings and problems with coyotes in our suburban small town. Many sightings of 2-3 at a time in yards in our neighborhood and one family's cat was killed buy these pests. Folks with small pets beware!
 
They are all over my area of Northeast GA, but I think hogs are a bigger problem for the farmers here. It very rare to see a turkey here now, so I imagine that the coyotes have really done a number on then. Interestingly, the number of rabbits has exploded directly near my house. I think that's a combination of better eating in the fields and the coyotes staying away from the immediate vicinity of the house, so the rabbits associate the house with better food and protection.

A neighboring county has brought in "professional trappers" to try to cut down on the number of coyotes in the city itself.

John
 
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..............To me it seems their territory is so large you'll hear them for a few nights and they disappear for a few weeks then return to the area. At least around my area they do. ................
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I notice the same here. I'm not sure if they're just more vocal at times or if they're moving. If they're moving, they're covering some ground.
 
They killed my daughters 4H project sheep this year. But this is nothing new in the west.
 
Muchos coyotes around here, pet dogs and cats are at risk. Sheriff's deputies patrolling the rural parts of the county shoot them on sight.
 
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