Re: Coyotes and calves

Posted by jackinok on September 08, 2011 at 09:01:20 from (162.58.82.136):

In Reply to: Re: Coyotes and calves posted by Traditional Farmer on September 08, 2011 at 05:15:55:

point is they keep reapearing,did your trapper say he got them all?bet he didnt,and i would be willing to wager you couldnt get him to.if you like having them trapped out every couple of years fine,you wont get them all, and you can kepp calling that trapper for your and his lifetime,and never get them all.you can get a bunch in one place but as soon as you quit they will be back.myself ,i prefer a little different approach,i simply let them sort themselves out for the most part.they will naturally thin themselves.after all a coyotes home range is only 1-3 square miles and they dont really like intruders.when you get a family group,(which is what your trapper did believe it or not ),mice and things that are the normal prey for these animals increase,almost overnight.along comes a coyote from a neighboring place ,finds a overabundance of food,finds a mate and starts having litters.since food is abundant,and that normal range is so greatly narrowed,you dont even see them,they increase until food again starts to become scarce and your right back in the same old cycle again.your not hurting the coyote population in any way shape or form.your simply increasing the boom or bust way of nature on a minute scale on your property.probably 90% of those coyotes you trapped out would have died of natural causes anyway.the remaining ones would have simply moved on to find new ranges of their own,or have been driven off by the older more mature one protecting their own home range.let me guess, your trapper showed up in the fall,september october time frame?right? probably said he was busy till then,if he told you anything at all?old trick that keeps the uninformed thinking they are really getting something done.and really cleaning up the coyote population.trouble is he simply caught the young coyotes,ones that wouldnt have survived the winter anyway,and the others,the strongest ones ,ones that had the ability to survive on their own simply moved on like they would have anyhow.LOL played the game a long time myself.chances are about 100-1 that he never got the older more mature animals to start with,and they simply ,since their prey again became abundant, stayed out of sight until again they had another bunch of pups.and yes a overabundance of rats becomes self limiting simply because they starve,as will every creature from earthworms to humans. coyotes because they eat every thing from earthworms to human bodies,along with thousands of types of plants,will survive where even a rat or human cannot.ery very few animals can thrive on such a varied a diet as coyotes,and a coyote will literaly thrive where you yourself will starve.that and that alone is what sets them up to increase their range exponentially.

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