Predators - Coyote's why do the neighbors ???

[Cathlina]

In Texas its a common thing we do it ourselves. And yes its gross but we have no neighbors. But if we did I might still leave it up simply because it does scare away the other coyotes. We hang them in different areas of our property to keep the other chicken eating coyotes scared off. It might be cruel to some but it would be just as cruel to let my chickens and turkeys become coyote food.
People have been doing this for years, probably hundreds of years. I would never tell someone what to do on there own property as long as it wasn't hurting anyone.

JMHO

 

[MissPrissy]

Back in Ga our farm was small by most standards in the end. We raised only about 300 head of beef. With that limited number of cattle we needed each and every one. Coyotes were pretty bad and took every chance they could to get a calf when it was born. My nephew would often be given the job to sit up at night and wait for them to creep out of the woods. It wasn't nothing to take down 4 or more a night for several nights in a row. The howling was always creepy to me. We lived in an extremely rural area as well so overpopulation and crowding was never the issue.

 

[gritsar]

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When Jake was still a pup, before he learned to lift his leg, the coyotes were getting pretty darn close to the house. Now he knows how (to lift his leg) and does frequently on our walks. I can still hear coyotes at night, but they are further away. I'd say this method works a heck of alot better than hanging, what to other coyotes, is just meat.

 

[newchickowner]

exactly! They're scavengers and opportunists, doesn't matter what it's made of.

 

[Cathlina]

We probably have done this with over 40 coyotes over the past 18 years and have NEVER had one eaten by anything.

Plus its kinda hard for us woman to go around peeing on trees and such

 

[beefy]

I'm not so sure about a coyote eating other coyotes. i mean all the coyote carcasses i can recall having found have just laid there and laid there until they were finally decomposed by maggots. granted, they could have been poisoned or something as far as i know and nothing wanted to eat them but even the ones i see hit on the side of the road seem to lay there forever.

 

[SisterFlash]

On the eating coyote posts...I seam to remember something about the donner party how they tried coyote and said it was horrible tasting. Sort of creapy and I wonder if it is really true relating to the donners.

I have heard from others that coyote tastes terrible.

That being said I have seen a dead coyote on the side of the road being eaten on by a bald eagle.

Barb

 

[TheMartianChick]

My area is overrun by crows. They don't seem to have a natural predator and it is rare to see the carcass of one. Several years ago, an upscale restaurant in a nearby town was plagued by them. Their customers would park their cars in the lot and then RUN to get inside because thousands of crows roosted in the trees above. All the cars would be covered in crow feces when they would come out after dinner. The town wouldn't allow the restaurant owners to cut down the trees where the birds roosted.

The town would not do anything to help so the restaurant owner obtained some carcasses and strung them up in some trees. The result? The crows moved on elsewhere within the town. (They probably moved to the mayor's front yard.) The same town later instituted an annual crow shoot and gave out prizes to the hunter who killed the most on that day.

I believe that the crow shoot caused the crows to migrate to my area, as we now have more than ever. They are noisy and disruptive and for those who are not familiar with crow behavior in a city... They are extremely large (compared with their country cousins), aggressive and not afraid of people. They seem to know the city trash schedule and literally tear apart all trash bags. They have even seemed to enlist the aid of the local squirrels. The squirrels tip over the trash cans and then they all have a feast. I frequently joke that if my kids were little that they wouldn't be allowed outside alone because one of these giants would carry them off.

If I had access to a couple of crow carcasses, I would probably try stringing them up to keep their brethren away. If I lived in the country and found a coyote carcass on the side of the road, I would string it up if I felt that it would help to keep my flock safe. It is preferable to losing sleep, livestock and money to a predator.

 

[LittleChickenRacingTeam]

We don't string them from tree's up here in Canada. That would be a waste of a perfectly good pelt.

 

[sundance]

We live far enough out for there to be lots of coyote, fox, hedgehogs skunks and anything else that is wild, but we also have dogs and they seem to keep the wild things away, my son in law always goes hunting for deer and keeps a deer in the freezer most of the time, when we are invited over for dinner on deer nite, i am always sick with something but hubby loves it and i must say my dau really know how to cook it with no wild taste, but its jut the thought that this was a deer, and maybe a mama deer, I just can't eat it.