NC Coyotes population increasing

[CoyoteMagic]

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What part of NC you in?

Chapel Hill/Carrboro - Orange County (Central NC aka "The Piedmont"

I'm on the Western Piedmont closer to "The Footshills" Stanley border of Gaston and Lincoln counties

 

[chickenvirgin]

I live in Saskatchewan and I heard on the radio today that our goverment is paying 20.00 per coyote killed, is payed by providing the four paws. It started in November and to date has paid out 200,00.00, that 10,000 coyotes in 3 1/2 months, almost unbelievable!

 

[Sweetfolly]

I've been hearing that coyote populations have boomed all over the country this year.

My cousin lives in downtown Baraboo, WI, which is a nice-sized little city with a population around 12,000. Just last week, while driving through a suburban area of town early in the morning, he saw a coyote strolling right down the sidewalk!

 

[racuda]

I recently heard a pack of coyotes howling nearby for the first time in my life. I'm in Randolph County, NC.

 

[MagsC]

We are a small town, but I have seen a coyote going right down the paved road in front of our house headed towards the fields/woods.
When we are over at my parents, about 40 min north of here, it isnt unusual to go out at night and have the coyotes be so loud and so close, it seems as if they are all over the valley. I get a bit nervous about taking the dogs out then.

 

[Humhill]

We're in Southeast Guilford county. A couple years back, one of our neighbors had a pair in her front yard in broad daylight, just strolling along. We breed and raise Miniature Horses. We finally got a donkey to add to our broodmare herd to ward off the coyotes when we saw some in the field next door. She's great with keeping dogs away too.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

I've heard that Donkey's and Llama are good at keeping dogs out of livestock pens

 

[DuckDuckGuinea]

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Yes, I have heard that as well. The maremma sheepdog appears (from a little reasearch) that it would have no problems
with the yotes. I would love to have a donkey or a maremma. I don't know much about Llamas.

 

[cw]

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bb guns work for what? 5 year olds shootin cans

 

[goosedragon]

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Hi all you people from the Old North State (NC) I am in Sanford Just down 15-501 from Chapel Hill, South of the Triangle, North of Fort Bragg, pretty much the center of the state. Have any of you heard that the coyote was introduced into some of the semi-suburbs by game officials that thought they could help control the deer population? Deer won't thrive in the piney woods, there isn't enough sunlight to get to the ground and grow the grass and scrub that they feed on. Subdivisions however provide first rate food and cover for the deer population. And they provide food for coyotes too, all those panpered pets and garbage cans -Good Eats!
When I spotted my first coyote, I asked some of my native outdoorsmen friends and they said that I was mistaken, that coyotes did not range on the Piedmont. Now these good old boys blast coyotes on sight since they ruin the deer hunting.
I had built what I thought was a very secure enclosure for my flocks of ducks & geese, Four foot woven wire, outside three hot wires. One near the ground to prevent diggers, One about 3 feet up to get climbers and lookers and one on the top for climbers. The woven wire was attached to steel stakes with all sections connected by jumper wires It was hard to get a good ground in my soil so the ground wire was connected directly to the woven wire. Now if you were standing on the ground and touched a hot wire you got a good jolt. If you were touching a post or woven wire and touched a hot wire You got twice the Jolt. Had motion detection security lights with alarm and a system of security cameras that fed to a monitor and recorder in the house. My sniper's nest overlooked the whole pen area and I thought I was ready right up to the first power failure when I installed battery backup on everything. Well it worked I repelled many coon, fox, and dog attacks. My first coyote pack attack was my last! A big female bit the top wire and it killed her. However she still had the wire in her mouth and she shorted out the hotwire and the whole system went down the pack swarmed jn and killed all of them. Wounded two but couldn't track them down buried, the wire biter used the dick bodies for bait in fopes that O could get a shot at one. Even when you think you are protected something can go wrong,