Coyotes in Delaware

[blufford]

After years of bragging about our muskrats and possums comes a critter that people around here won't try to eat. :smiley-laughing013:


http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/p...=2010305010008

[Mulish]

I worked at the landfill in New Castle county, in DE for quite a while, I used to see them frequently, Used to see them dead on the Governer Printz Blvd. They have been there for years.

[calliemoonbeam]

Coyotes are nothing new around here, but I did see something unusual last weekend. At about 3:30 in the afternoon, a coyote crossed a wide open field, ran into the middle of a busy two-lane highway and just stopped in the middle, staring down the oncoming cars, waiting until cars in both directions almost came to a stop before calmly turning and continuing on across the highway into another wide open field.

Very weird, since they're usually nocturnal and skittish of people and especially vehicles. All of us drivers just kind of looked at each other like "what the heck"? lol It was definitely a coyote though, not a dog or anything.

I have a whole pack of them out here a lot of nights, sounds like about 20-30. Luckily, I don't have any livestock yet, but I wonder what will happen once I do. The neighbors keep a donkey and say that works pretty well. They have goats and chickens. I do hear him sound off sometimes like he's just madder than a hornet, lol It's funny, I can kind of tell his moods by his brays.

[suitcase_sally]

I don't know whether this has been Photo-shopped or not... it's from Canada, I think.

[blufford]

I wonder if you camped near it if the wind would howl all night?

[willbuck1]

I'm a West Virginia boy and even I find that one a little disturbing. No problem with killing them but the display is a little over the top. Not too mention the smell.

If you've got coyotes and they aren't messing with your animals, leave them alone. If you kill them off the next ones to move in might not be so inclined. If they mess with your animals it's open season.

[lmrose]

This is the first year in 25 our deer herd is gone! I think there are more coyotes around as we see them frequently and deer left to get away from them. The coyotes we have now are much bigger and heavier than the ones from years past. They also are not afraid of people and have confronted and in some cases attacked people in Nova Scotia.

The thinking is that they may have crossed with wolves and migrated here from New Brunswick. Others think they have crossed with dogs. The ones I have seen looked more like wolves than coyotes. Sarting in Oct to Jan there will be a $20 bounty on coyotes in Nova Scotia. One has to be a licensed hunter or trapper to hunt them. The officials are hoping to cull half of the estimated 4000 plus coyotes in this province.

Wild life officials don't think culling them will work. The remaining ones will have more and bigger litters as it happened in the past. Personally I think they should be left alone unless they are attacking livestock or threatening people.

[lonelytree]

Originally Posted by willbuck1

I'm a West Virginia boy and even I find that one a little disturbing. No problem with killing them but the display is a little over the top. Not too mention the smell.

If you've got coyotes and they aren't messing with your animals, leave them alone. If you kill them off the next ones to move in might not be so inclined. If they mess with your animals it's open season.

There are many such pictures from the midwest. In the 30s and 40s they used to have vicious cycles of rabbits and coyotes. Hundreds of rabbits were driven into fenced areas and clubbed. Coyotes and rabbits breed very quickly.

There is little or no smell. Those animals are cased. Skinned and put up to dry.

http://www.kshs.org/portraits/jackrabbit_drives.htm