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Cattle ranches
#2102873
05/01/17 09:35 AM
05/01/17 09:35 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,347 Prattville AL
ElkHunter
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Question for you cattle guys.
Have been working some cattle ranches in Wilcox and Dallas counties lately. I am surprised at the number of coyotes hanging around the herds of cattle. Shot 3 this weekend working around the edges of the herd. Shot another one sitting near a cow that was off by itself. I don't know if the cow was about to have a calf, sick, or just off by itself.
Surely, these coyotes are not preying on the cattle. Are they trying to catch small animals flushed by the cattle or what?
Alabama Hog Control, Inc. www.alabamahogcontrol.comBarry Estes The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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Re: Cattle ranches
[Re: ElkHunter]
#2103165
05/01/17 02:48 PM
05/01/17 02:48 PM
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Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 18,070 Andalusia, Al. Covington Co.
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Old Mossy Horns
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They'll take a grown deer when they have to, a calf would be a much easier target, especially if there's more than one or two, to distract/harry the heifer while another kills the calf. Probably don't see it as much here because coyotes tend to hunt more in ones and twos, but out west, where they often hunt in large packs...it's an instinct thing. Bigger animal = bigger meal for all.
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Re: Cattle ranches
[Re: ElkHunter]
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05/01/17 06:26 PM
05/01/17 06:26 PM
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Posts: 18,070 Andalusia, Al. Covington Co.
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Owners of some HUGE ranches in N. Texas spend 6 figures a year on coyote eradication. I'm thinking they wouldn't be dropping that much to keep coyotes from eating afterbirth, dragging off dead calves, or even denting up their turkey population...
The one that comes to mind right offhand is the Four 6 ranch, up near Borger...880,000 acres, guy won it in a poker game with four 6's!...he had crews whose sole job it was was to kill coyotes. They trapped, shot, and poisoned year-round. You could drive by there, the ranch stretched about 20-25 miles on both sides of the road, and every fencepost would have a dead coyote hanging on it, supposedly to help deter other coyotes.
Well behaved women never make history.~ Out back Quit laughing...I think I broke something.
Fifteen is my limit on Schnitzen-Gruben, Baby...
I have OCD and ADD, so everything has to be perfect, but only for a minute.
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Re: Cattle ranches
[Re: doekiller]
#2104981
05/03/17 08:41 AM
05/03/17 08:41 AM
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Joined: Oct 2015
Posts: 6,460 Pelham Al
Tigger85
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I have never seen a yote get a calf. I have never heard of anyone actually seeing a yote take a live calf. I have seen them eat the afterbirth and I have seen them drag off a dead calf. But, it was a calf that was already dead.
I think most people attribute dead calls to yotes without any real indication it caught and killed a live calf. Hell, most mamma cows will not let you near their babies. i've had them killed by coyotes. I've also seen where they took down big heifers and killed them. But it was always in the winter and there were large packs of them. Not the usual ones or twos you see most of the time.
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Re: Cattle ranches
[Re: ElkHunter]
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05/03/17 11:21 AM
05/03/17 11:21 AM
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Joined: Nov 2004
Posts: 11,347 Prattville AL
ElkHunter
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I witnessed a pack of 4 coyotes hunting a sounder of hogs one night. The sounder had about a dozen real small pigs in it. They were not successful.
I have also seen 3 coyotes worry a large bull almost to exhaustion. They had caused that bull to spin in place for hours it looked like based on how the ground was pounded into mud. I watched them nip at his heals for a few minutes before I got the bull some relief by killing two of the coyotes. I was shocked they took on a mature bull.
Alabama Hog Control, Inc. www.alabamahogcontrol.comBarry Estes The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
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Re: Cattle ranches
[Re: ElkHunter]
#2114213
05/14/17 03:32 PM
05/14/17 03:32 PM
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Joined: Oct 2006
Posts: 7,753 Montgomery, AL
Hunting-231
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If there are calves - they are eating the calf crap same as buzzards will eat it. Apparently they like the poop with soured milk mixed in.
I went to the farm a while back and there were buzzards everywhere, I assumed there was a dead one in the field, but they were eating the poop.
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