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10/15/11, 04:53 PM
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Location: Illinois
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Coyotes are bad this year
They're horrible around here this year. A couple of weeks ago I had one come towards me while I was messing in a flower bed against the house. It didn't rush me or anything but it passed right by me. I was at the side of the house and the dumb thing came towards the house from the compost pile. It came within three or four feet of the back porch. The next day DH shot one that had made a little nest in the barn.
We've lost a number of cats this year. Neighbor said he was surprised that anybody had any cats left. They have had them in their front yard under the apple tree. Another neighbor has had them right next to their back deck.
We've generally had a lot of pests in the barn this year: skunks, opossums, and raccoons.
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10/15/11, 05:06 PM
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What's the Rabies situation like around you?
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10/15/11, 05:27 PM
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Maybe it's the pests in the barn that attracted the coyote. Coyotes generally prefer to stay away from human habitat if at all possible. He may have been a dog, a coydog, or if he's from Chicago he thought your barn was the wilderness.
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10/15/11, 05:32 PM
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They're bad here too. Night before last it sounded like they were on the other side of the pond in our front yard. The dogs were having a fit. Last night they sounded like they were across the road, thank goodness.
For the past couple weeks most of my cats have wanted to come in at night, which is unusually for some of them.
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10/15/11, 05:34 PM
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We haven't had any rabies cases in the last few years. We don't have any coydogs. I'm pretty sure the spring rains and the hot summer caused the problem.
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10/15/11, 08:02 PM
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That's good, anyway!
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10/15/11, 08:08 PM
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Thursday morning I pulled out of the driveway and about 200 yards down one crossed the road in front of me. Big, in excellent condition, with a really thick coat. Thickness of coat is what really got my attention. Mid October isn't that cold here, so looks like a prediction of cold weather to come this winter.
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10/15/11, 10:05 PM
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Location: SW Louisiana
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My personal opinion is that the only good coyote is a DEAD one. The will attack humans and anything else they deem edible.
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10/15/11, 10:23 PM
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A few years ago my youngest son was out in the yard just walking around and happened on 2 or 3 in a small gully beside the garage. Thank goodness he had enough sense to hightail it back to the house and didn't wait to see what they were going to do. We've had them all over the place here this year.
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10/15/11, 10:49 PM
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Location: Twining, Mi.
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They use to be pretty bad around us too & I still here them every once in awhile but there's a few guys that hunt them here the last few years. They start after firearm deer season is over & last winter they got I think they said 35, the winter before it was 29, can't remember how many before that.
I did notice the wild rabbits were terrible this past winter & spring though too! Eating , bushes & flowers, Cotten picking critters. I guess I should just be happy there aren't a ton of coyotes running around getting my livestock though!
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10/15/11, 10:52 PM
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They've been really bad in Missouri this year. A friend in the Boonville area and some of her neighbors have hired hunters to go after them twice as nuisance animals. The neighbor of a friend in northern Boone County lost all her hens but two to a particularly aggressive pack in broad daylight. We hear them all the time but have had no livestock losses yet.
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10/15/11, 11:52 PM
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As long as they keep staying away from our place this next month until we can get the BBW free range turkeys to processing size, I'll be happy.
Trapping season starts the first week of November and hopefully Paul has a good year trapping 'yotes. Prices have gone up on their pelts.
The only redeeming factor about having 'yotes around is you usually won't have fox. I'll take a 'yote over a fox any day. 'Yotes will kill and take what they need. A fox will kill everything for fun and then leave them.
We've heard them and Paul has seen their tracks & scat while researching where to put traps.
Skunks have been a big problem for us this year. In IL, you're suppose to dispatch a trapped skunk (even in live traps) instead of relocating them because of rabies. Paul has too soft a heart and will relocate a few miles out. (much to my dismay!!)
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10/16/11, 12:31 AM
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We had several packs of coydogs and coyote mixes a few years ago that often came through here. I could sit and listen to them travel in from the west going east. The packs always took a path through the dairy farms' barn area and that would set off the herd with big moo moos the rest of the late night into early morning. A friend kept horses on her small farm and stabled horses for other people. She had a big problem with coyote attacking the horses. There are people around here that hunt and trap the coydog/coyote but it's not something they advertise doing. Our county has hunters for every wild animal and we're not going to be overrun with anything anytime soon.
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10/16/11, 02:14 AM
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I often spend a lot of time outside in the wee hours (love listening to the sounds coming from the woods). A couple of years ago, there were two coyotes at the top of the driveway...we all froze and stared at each other for a couple of minutes and they simply turned and ambled away.
Haven't seen any since.
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10/16/11, 04:39 AM
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I agree they are bad this year. My husband called and told me they were close enough to the house tonight that our dogs were nervous and pacing our porches all bristled up.
He decided to drive back across the field to get the kids that were still out bow hunting because we had so many so close.
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10/16/11, 07:23 AM
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The coyotes in our area are huge. Back in the 70's the DEC (who will not admit it) crossed wolves with coyotes to try and decimate the deer. My vet has done Dna testing and agrees.
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10/16/11, 08:22 AM
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We're in southern Missouri.
The coyotes are terrible this year and I've been doing quite a bit of coyote hunting
for area farmers and ranchers. I don't charge a thing.
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10/16/11, 10:56 AM
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Location: Indiana
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Bad here, too. And they seem to be more bold. On the country road by our home, I have to "nudge" them off the road with my car. They aren't in any hurry to get out of the way for sure!
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10/16/11, 11:17 AM
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Location: Zone 7
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They have been bad here also. This summer we have heard them 3 times a night for a week or more at a time. It used to be about one night a month.
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10/16/11, 11:33 AM
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Location: southwest texas
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I've been hearing them lately in the same area I used to hear them last spring and to the same degree--not more often. For a few months over the summer we didn't hear them at all. I think it was a combinations of the severe drought and 100 plus temps. All ponds were dry but last week we started getting some rain so now there's some water for them.
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