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

[ilovemychickies]

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Cool! I used to have a pet hedgehog named Star.

 

[ivan3]

I'd guess the strung up yotes serve a primarily talismanic function (think crosses and vampires or kissing one's `lucky' thumb knuckle as the lottery numbers are called). As I read this thread I started imagining some grizzled rancher singing Tom Petty's Don't Come Around Here No More as he strings the yote to the barbed wire.

My folks would pack up my brothers and I, every two years, to make the run on old 66 from San Berdoo to Tulsa (on the way to TN. to see ma's folks). One of the games we would play was counting the number of strung up yotes. What did that experience teach me? Don't mess with other folk's sheep.

Well, Old 66 ain't nothin' but too many lanes of nothin' these days and whatever magic once resided in those windblown corpses along the two-lane has long since disappeared.

Feed those yotes to the Turkey Vultures RECYCLE!
(still trying to figure out why Charlton Heston was so upset when he discovered that Soylent Green was People??? Waste not, want not).

 

[mley1]

I've seen this sort of thing many, many times here in Texas. Lots of ranchers do this here to help keep other coyotes off the property. Typically they'll hang them near a natural coyote crossing on the fence line. It seems to work.

Where I live I lost a good beagle dog to a coyote attack that occurred in my back yard. And, a neighbors calf was chased around our house one night. Thankfully the calf was able to jump into a good fenced in area we had and got away from the yotes. Needless to say I won't let a yote walk if I have the opportunity to stop one. I've shot a few. But, I have never hung one up like what was mentioned here. I don't believe I'd want to be looking at a dead yote near my place......

 

[1acrefarm]

My grandparents used to hang a crow in a tree by the garden to deter other crows. It was not in plain sight to the public. The thousands of crows in the area did seem to be deterred. I prefer the territory marking method of predator deterrence. I will not kill a predator unless its a last resort. Killing a nontroublesome predator may just open territory for its meaner hungrier relative to move in.
I would never hang a predator in plain site and probably not out of site for that matter. I do however believe those who feel it helps should not be denied their property rights.

 

[wilds of pa]

Boring post..get on over it...you'll see all kinds of things living the country life in the Great USA..

people hang animals for many reasons,
deer, cattle, chickens etc to let the meat age so it tast better..

yotes, fox ect skinning is done by hanging but in a timely matter...the pelt will be no good after a day in warm weather as the fur would pull right out of the skin..

Hanging them maybe to P-off there nabors..

many reasons.

Its a free country.....

 

[horsejody]

As a kid, I was taught that it would deter others of the same species from coming back. Just because those people live in town and don't have livestock, don't assume they can't have losses from coyotes. A coyote can pick off a cat or small dog pretty easily. Your child may be upset if he sees a dead coyote, but maybe the property owner's kid would be even more upset if their puppy or kitten was killed by another coyote. We can't sanitize the world for our kids. If you explain the possible reasons for the hanging carcass to a child, you might be surprised at how easily they accept it.

 

[lacyloo]

free country indeed