war now declared on my coyotes

Im looking for any suggestions you guys can throw out.

Take it from me DO NOT USE POISON! It is highly illegal to use it and the state dept of agriculture is on the lookout. I am licensed to sell it to my cotton customers only and if one were caught using it now the fines and jailtime arent worth it. Back in the day it was easier to get by with but now you accidentally kill someones pet FIFI and an autopsy will show it. Hunt them down use bait do whatever i hope they die a painful death but im just trying to save you a possible bad mistake!

Years ago i knew a man who would get eggs from his chickens and use a needle to inject round up and anti freeze into them, then he set the eggs out in the areas where the coyotes were. the rest is history...

Never tried this myself, but heard alot of people say soak sponges in bacon grease and cut it up into pieces. Put the sponges out where the coyotes are.

Ive been thinking about building a 10 x 10 pen with hog wire, cut a few smalls holes for the yotes to crawl through with snares set on each hole and gut each deer and throw the guts in the pen and hopefully catch the yotes coming through the fence

DO NOT USE POISON. Dead eagles and other birds are the least of your worries. You could kill SOMEONE...much worse.

After seeing what my labs can eat AND pass, I don't think a sponge would phase a coyote.

Trappers have been put out of business by our wonderful state game laws so now landowners are gonna have to pick up the slack and extra cost of learning to and trapping predators themselves! This is not easy or cheap if you truely wish to be effective!

Section 9-11-245
Unlawful methods of hunting birds or animals protected by law or regulation.

No person shall at any time make use of any pitfall, deadfall, baited field, cage, trap, net, pen, baited hook, snare, poison, explosive, or chemical for the purpose of injuring, capturing, or killing birds or animals protected by law or regulation of this state. This section shall not prevent the trapping of animals classified as fur-bearing animals by a duly licensed fur catcher. It shall be legal to use a scaffold for gun hunting of all legal game species except wild turkey and to use a scaffold for bow hunting of all legal game species.
(Acts 1951, No. 1001, p. 1672, §2; Acts 1975, No. 195, p. 681, §1; Acts 1995, No. 95-563, p. 1174, §1.)

Section 9-11-59
License to capture or kill fur-bearing animals for commercial purposes; traps.

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to take, capture, or kill, or to attempt to take, capture, or kill for commercial purposes by any means or device any of the fur-bearing animals protected by the laws or regulations of this state without first procuring a license therefor, to be issued in the same manner as is provided for hunting and fishing licenses. Any person who has been a bona fide resident of this state for six months next preceding may procure a resident trapping license by paying the sum of $7.65. Any person who has not been a bona fide resident of this state for six months next preceding may procure a nonresident trapping license by paying the sum of $500.15. Any resident or nonresident when trapping for beaver only shall not be required to pay a license fee. A trapping license shall be valid only during the season when fur-bearing animals may be legally taken.

trappers wern't put out of business because of game laws. Like gobbler said, no demand for furs, prices dropped, fell out the bottom, trapping virtually stopped.

There wasn't much yote trapping going on then anyway compared to coons, red fox, etc. They just didn't bring the money and coons were, are, a hell of a lot easier to trap.

In 1980-81 you couldn't find a dead coon, opossum, fox on the roads. Buyers were paying $5 for an unskinned road kill opossum, and gas wasn't so high either. LOTS of folks were making routes to pick up road kills before work.

troy

Preacher, a LOT of folks were running lines before work, after work, all hours of the day and night.

I'd guess(long time ago) that probably 1/4 of the complaints I had then involved trespassing and illegal trapping. Lots of putting traps under every bridge over any size creek.

I remember good coons bringing $35. Seems everybody and their son, brother,cousin was trapping or picking up roadkills.

Would be great if it would work but I suspect that you would have a hard time convincing a yote to fall for this one!

That bounty idea sounds good to me. I try to kill every one of the mangey bastards I see but have only shot 4 in my life. I've probably only seen 5-6 while hunting. I'd love to see a $200 bounty on them, pups included. The rabbit/rat populaton would still be kept in check by foxes, birds of prey, and snakes. We don't need yotes for anything in my opinion.

Dr. B

And before anybody can ask how I expect to pay for this program, I'll go ahead and give you the answer - raise taxes on the rich. That works for everything.

With ideas like this, I think I've got a great chance to win.

Curious how trappers have been put out of business by game laws? The fur business went out because of the anti's protesting, etc. Game law says you can trap yotes year round and other furbearers during normal seasons? Not bashing, just questioning

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>>>Oh yeah! I almost forgot to ask. Does your idea of taxing the rich include taxing rich churches?<<<

There are rich churches? Where?

...Church of the Highlands opened a $4 million, 1,000-seat youth auditorium in September on the main campus.

Don't let Outback read this.......................

I'll say this, you're a thick-headed sumbeech. Coyotes are predators, and predators sometimes kill. I can see how a screaming fawn might tug at the heart strings of a girly-man but that's what happens in the real world. Mother Nature can be a cruel ol gal. If you've ever seen a deer starved to death, with a broken jaw, because some moron tried to make a head shot, you'd declare war on morons who make head shots. The fact is, neither can be eliminated, the coyotes or the morons, so we learn to live with them ... and occasionally kill one.

I'll say this, you're a thick-headed sumbeech. Coyotes are predators, and predators sometimes kill. I can see how a screaming fawn might tug at the heart strings of a girly-man but that's what happens in the real world. Mother Nature can be a cruel ol gal. If you've ever seen a deer starved to death, with a broken jaw, because some moron tried to make a head shot, you'd declare war on morons who make head shots. The fact is, neither can be eliminated, the coyotes or the morons, so we learn to live with them ... and occasionally kill one.

I'm certainly glad you have flip-flopped and realized the truth. Earlier, when you said, "Coyotes rarely kill a healthy deer or even fawns", I somehow knew you were ill informed and belligerent.

Maybe now you won't try and convince otherwise.

Troy, the problem I see with the "migrated from TX" theory is that a 60 lb coyote is unheard of in TX and common in AL. How did they get so much bigger on their trip?

I maintain that the AL coyote is not the same critter as the one in TX and other western states. They are all crossed up with dogs, and much bigger and meaner.

Outback, "coyotes rarely kill....fawns" may just be the stupidist statement made on ALL the coyote threads combined. You can't REALLY believe that...????

troy

you can believe anything ya want to.

I'll stand by my original statement.

Troy, just curious ... why are the feral dogs more aggressive, mean, etc., than the yotes?

Outback,why wouldn't a coyote kill a fawn? coyote are very resourceful and will eat persimmons ,fruit or anything else they can find or kill. and they are capable of killing about anything in the woods.

never been followed, attacked, or skeered of a yote. I believe, not that I'd try it, I could kill one barehanded. They ain't nothing but a medium size dog and I dang sure ain't skeered of them.

In Alabama at least, feral dogs pose a much greater danger to humans than any yote ever did.

no charge and worth every penny....

troy

Thanks.

Is that something genetic, perhaps? Would the same correlate to wolves?