Coyotes

[Vol Hunter]

Anybody know of someone who traps coyotes in or around Lawrence County?

 

[CATCHDAWG]

You might want to post this in the trapping forum.

 

[Planking]

I didn't even set this year. They are pretty much wiped out at my place. It's fun while it lasts.

 

[BringBackThe80s]

I didn't even set this year. They are pretty much wiped out at my place. It's fun while it lasts.

Coyotes are wiped out? I've didn't think that was possible without poisoning.

How large an area do you think has been depopulated? How long for it to rebound?

 

[BringBackThe80s]

I would suggest that they were not wiped out, but rather the ones there now got wise to the traps.

 

[backyardtndeer]

I would suggest that they were not wiped out, but rather the ones there now got wise to the traps.

They will absolutely learn to avoid areas. Livestock guardian dogs help with that. I am good with them avoiding my farm.

 

[Creek bottoms]

I haven't seen or heard many since the deer die off at my farm last year. I guess they moved on.

 

[BringBackThe80s]

They will absolutely learn to avoid areas. Livestock guardian dogs help with that. I am good with them avoiding my farm.

"Wiped out" of an area is not at all the same as avoiding farms with guard dogs. In fact, that's what I said: avoidance is a much more likely cause than extirpation.

 

[BSK]

Coyote populations often follow a "J-shaped" pattern, in that their population rises to a peak, and then crashed after a disease outbreak. Then it takes a year or two for the population to build up again. I've seen these patterns over and over. Of course, following a crash, they are not wiped out, just a dramatically reduced population.

 

[backyardtndeer]

"Wiped out" of an area is not at all the same as avoiding farms with guard dogs. In fact, that's what I said: avoidance is a much more likely cause than extirpation.

I was agreeing with your point on them avoiding the area, someone else said wiped out.

 

[Planking]

Coyotes are wiped out? I've didn't think that was possible without poisoning.

How large an area do you think has been depopulated? How long for it to rebound?

Why would you think it's not possible without using poison? My property was most certainly depopulated of coyotes for a period of time to the point i saw no need of setting a single trap and i did not. No pics, no traps. Try setting 8 footholds per 100 acres during Tennessee's year long trapping season. Run 5 trail cams per 100 acres and tell me how many coyotes you have on camera after three years running those traps. Try setting some on bushogged trails. Coyotes love using those.

 

[BringBackThe80s]

I was agreeing with your point on them avoiding the area, someone else said wiped out

My mistake!

 

[megalomaniac]

Coyotes are wiped out? I've didn't think that was possible without poisoning.

How large an area do you think has been depopulated? How long for it to rebound?

We had a massive outbreak of distemper on my places and the majority died about 4 years ago. We have kept them from rebounding by hunting them year round.

 

[Teacher]

I have a great friend in North Alabama that is into night vision hunting for the coyotes. He has killed over 550 here in 4 counties near Muscle Shoals. He wore them out in the ag fields before the corn got too tall to see them. He has now moved to fresh cut hay fields and is doing good on them. I got him to come out when coyotes killed one of our newborn calves on a cold streak back in January. I live a half mile from a railroad track and would always hear them yelping before the train came through. I haven't heard one now since the last of March. I haven't seen one nor have I seen any droppings or tracks in the fields and pastures here and we are out daily with the cattle. He can't hunt woods with the night vision but might could help you out in ag fields or hay fields. He has really made a huge dent in them here!

 

[BSK]

You can absolutely knock a coyote population down through trapping and shooting. However, the trick is keeping it down. Recent research shows that half the coyotes you see in person or on camera on a given property aren't even resident animals. They are small groups just drifting through. Some coyote groups have no permanent home range. They are just drifters. You could wipe out your resident population, but you are still going to see drifters, and the research shows these drifters will become residents if they find an area without a resident population.

So, the take-away is, yes, you can knock a population down, but to keep it down requires continuous removal.

 

[DoubleRidge]

No doubt keeping coyote poulations down is a tremendous challenge...but we can lower the numbers....and its been said on here many times...a dead coyote cant eat a fawn or turkey poult.

Also its interesting how coyotes are cyclical...some years we see them regularly and other years it rare? I was told they are susceptible to diseases like parvo when numbers get too high.

 

[BSK]

No doubt keeping coyote poulations down is a tremendous challenge...but we can lower the numbers....and its been said on here many times...a dead coyote cant eat a fawn or turkey poult.

Agreed. Every coyote removed is a positive.

Also its interesting how coyotes are cyclical...some years we see them regularly and other years it rare? I was told they are susceptible to diseases like parvo when numbers get too high.

Coyotes display a "J-shaped" population dynamic. Their population explodes, and then just as quickly crashes due to contagious diseases. Distemper and parvo are the two big coyote killers.

 

[DoubleRidge]

Agreed. Every coyote removed is a positive.


Coyotes display a "J-shaped" population dynamic. Their population explodes, and then just as quickly crashes due to contagious diseases. Distemper and parvo are the two big coyote killers.

Distemper...yes, thank you...couldnt remember the name of the other disease I had read about....we definitely see this population dynamic.