so what do we all think? to hunt or not to hunt?? Personally, I go both ways..OOPS!!! I mean, I have motives for both approaches:
1) I DO hunt them to save livestock, to help a rancher--they are generally very appreciative of eradicating what might be next years predators. Often the rancher doesn't realize these coyotes will be replaced in due time,, but we've made a friend
I also hunt them if I have a place that I would like to swing the "balance of nature" back to more quail, pheasants, rabbits, and other more abundent critters that the coyote has deminished
2)I DON'T hunt them on my more obscure agricultural properties and open grounds. Alfalfa, wheat, row crops, and orchards are fun places to hunt and the coyotes don't bother much but the gophers, squirrels, and other small rodents,,..Come early summer when pups start leaving the den I get calls from farmers, who have problem coyotes, that chew thier drip lines for water and cuz it feels good when they're teething
show them one dead coyote and they think you're John Wayne, saving thier world----AND, they "know somebody"
1) I DO hunt them to save livestock, to help a rancher--they are generally very appreciative of eradicating what might be next years predators. Often the rancher doesn't realize these coyotes will be replaced in due time,, but we've made a friend
I also hunt them if I have a place that I would like to swing the "balance of nature" back to more quail, pheasants, rabbits, and other more abundent critters that the coyote has deminished
2)I DON'T hunt them on my more obscure agricultural properties and open grounds. Alfalfa, wheat, row crops, and orchards are fun places to hunt and the coyotes don't bother much but the gophers, squirrels, and other small rodents,,..Come early summer when pups start leaving the den I get calls from farmers, who have problem coyotes, that chew thier drip lines for water and cuz it feels good when they're teething
show them one dead coyote and they think you're John Wayne, saving thier world----AND, they "know somebody"