coyote came at 9:30! WHY???????

[Mr Pink]

Truman lake

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Oh, that's way up there. Have coyotes been an issue for a long time or did you just start trapping lately?

 

[Mr Pink]

This is impressive. I would think that once you got one or two the others would have made themselves scarce. I have a feeling the group that lives by my house is close to this size because there are always more than you see and I have seen 5-6 at one time. I have watched out the window as one walked within 20 ft. of my chicken coop while they were locked inside roosting. So far, no loss, however since before I even brought my chickens home my husband joked that it was a waste of money/effort to just be feeding the neighborhood coyotes. He is however on my side and has helped make the most secure coop we could. He actually likes my chickens and no longer cracks jokes about the coyotes

Coyotes travel and this time of year when food scarce they travel long distances PLUS it's starting breeding season ... I'm not necessarily catching families that live full time on my properties but do use my properties to hunt on . I have 700 acres ( in three close pieces ) that is intensely managed for wildlife and right now I have several food plots that are in Cereal rye which stays green all winter and the deer and turkey flock to this food source AND so do the predators !

Taking advantage of this time of year to thin the coyote population helps in the spring with deer being able to get their fawns past that helpless stage and half a chance to make it to adulthood

 

[Mr Pink]

Oh, that's way up there. Have coyotes been an issue for a long time or did you just start trapping lately?

In my world they are always an issue but this year seems to have been an explosion in the population ... Not many people trap anymore , there is little or no money in it . I do what I do as a management tool to help properties . I trapped as a kid to make some pocket money but that is pretty hard to to nowa days

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Do you do anything with the pelts?
I trap a lot of raccoons and some mink but haven't found it economically feasible to take the time to tan them.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

In my world they are always an issue but this year seems to have been an explosion in the population ... Not many people trap anymore , there is little or no money in it . I do what I do as a management tool to help properties

I get it. That and coyotes are an invasive species in this part of the country. Expanded here after wolves were eradicated.

 

[Mr Pink]

Do you do anything with the pelts?
I trap a lot of raccoons and some mink but haven't found it economically feasible to take the time to tan them.

I have a neighbor kid that does my skinning and I let him sell them , my main interest is getting them gone off my properties

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

Snares or here in Missouri the term is Cable restraints ... had 5 more this morning

Homemade I guess? Gotta be cheap to have so many going.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

They are pretty cheap and can be homemade with some critical hardware.
http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/snares.html

 

[HenOnAJuneBug]

They are pretty cheap and can be homemade with some critical hardware.
http://www.flemingoutdoors.com/snares.html

Why make 'em when they're that cheap... thx