coyote

I'd have to agree with the 270 aproach; lots of fun.

This doesn't answer the question but it does address coyotes killing game. Several years ago while elk hunting with my son. we were working a ridge line when a calf elk charged out of the timber just below us. He had a coyote on his tail. We watched the calf frantically try to get back to the timber but the coyote kept him cut off. Then we noticed a 2d coyote about 100 yds away sitting and watching. Apparently waiting his turn when the 1st one tired. The calf finally disappeared down the mountain with both coyotes pushing him. A minute later we saw about a doz. cows looking wild-eyed. I didn't think 2 coyotes could handle something as big as a calf elk but apparently I was wrong.

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Sorry to burst your bubble Dave; Ever hear of sheep? They slaughter them relentlesly. Once a taste for bigger animals, the forage you mention will be used only when the other food source isn't available. Same with calves. Gets pretty spendy to have to keep your livestock around the place and FEED them when you've got pastures aching to be grazed. Also like to kill farm dogs when they can, so the farmer loses an asset he has to help with his sheep, cattle, etc. Until you've lived on a farm, and dealt with low prices, predators, etc, don't make out the coyote to be a poor put upon critter. they're survivors, and always will be. I won't argue right or wrong; but they outbreed and will outlive both of us.

My father is an orange grower and the coyotes cause him lots of problems as well. Whenever he irrigates the coyotes chew up the polytubing in order to get water to drink faster than the rate it comes out of the small sprinklers. I turns out to be very time consuming to repair. This property is up in the foothils inside of some cattle ranches. My grandmother also raises sheep for fun she had just 4 earlier this or I should say late last year. Now she is down to two and the coyotes killed one of her small yappy dogs as well. -Alex central California

The most notorious chewers of polytubing are mice and ground squirrels. They chew tubing because their teeth constantly grow and need to grind them down. My boss is one of the number one vertebrate pest control people in the state and has documented hundreds of times where rodents have chewed up polytubing. Check with your farm adviser with the UC extension. And if you are correct in that the coyotes are just thirsty why not build a guzzler like DFG builds for quail. It could only help the wildlife populations on your land.

That must be why a rat (I guess) chewed through the electric cord to my refrigerator once. Copper wire and all. The odd thing is, I didn't find a cooked rat behind the 'fridge. Bill Van Houten (USA Ret) 'No matter how hard you try, you can't throw a potato chip very far.'

Ca. 1960 When I was on leave after a tour overseas I took the teen age son of a friend with me looking for a place to hunt rabbits. Out of San Antonio we drove down to about Pleasenton. We stopped at a ranchers to ask permission. He told us to shoot all the rabbits we wanted to. A couple years previous the area had had what was evidently a successfull coyote eradication program. Standing at the intersection of a couple cattle trails you could see five or six rabbits darting back and forth at once. After walking no more that a couple hundred yards we had shot as many rabbits as we could carry. As we were leaving the rancher thanked *us*. Bill Van Houten (USA Ret) 'No matter how hard you try, you can't throw a potato chip very far.'