Posted by NEBeef on September 06, 2011 at 09:43:46 from (198.51.119.153):
In Reply to: Coyotes and calves posted by rrlund on September 06, 2011 at 07:10:23:
Never lost a calf to a coyote, and it's not because they aren't around. We got some big healthy looking ones here, they pass right through our pasture all the time. In addition to sightings and yips and howls at night, you can judge the coyote population around here by the wood chuck population - lots of chucks, not too many coyotes, and vice versa.
And I understand the question - in most of the stories that involve a dead calf and a coyote there's no way of knowing which came first, as Tom in TN points out. My neighbor across the street shoots every one he sees, I'm still not quite sure why. I think they might get some of his chickens - those would be the chickens that roam the woods 'cause his chicken pen... ain't much of a pen.
I wouldn't be totally surprised to some morning find we lost a calf to coyote, but we've been at it for quite a few years and I haven't seen it yet.
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