Originally Posted by jpippin
If you are so deadset against coyotes having an impact on your deer herd, run your own experiment. Do camera surveys this year heavily and set a baseline for fawn recruitment on your property. During the offseason remove as many coyotes as you can and then do the same camera survey and see if fawn recruitment changes. I am betting a pretty penny that your fawn recruitment will tremendously improve just by removing x amount of coyotes. Don't take our word for it though, try it.

I have. And it's nowhere near 70%.
I might believe 30%.
One thing working in our favor, around here, we have no hog problem.
I could see where the fawn mortality rate could be much higher in areas with a significant Coyote and hog population. Hogs are probably worse predators than bobcats and coyotes combined.


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