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Calving in coyote country( graphic pics)

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I had posted some pictures earlier, some of which included a bunch of coyote paws to be taken in for bounty. We get $20 per yote to help knock down the population a little. I got some responses asking why we would want to do this as they rairly hurt anything and often eat gophers, mice etc. Before anyone gets fired up to say that there cows would never let this happen understand that this was a twin calf that was left alone overnight. I thought i had seen something in the afternoon but when i went back before dark i couldn't find anything. I assumed that the cow had come to get it and was back with the herd. Went out in the morning and found this poor little girl. After seeing this it makes me want to shoot every 'yote i can get in the scope! After looking things over there was only one solution for this problem, but I sure would have rather used that bullet for something else.
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That's a crappy thing to have happen, and reaffirms my dislike for those things.
 
Northern Rancher said:
Funny they didn't clean her up-I've had ravens do the same thing. Twins can be a tough deal out on the grass.
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We had a magpie problem a few years ago, they went after an old gal and had pecked her whole anus until it was a bloody pulp. Had a heck of a time keeping them off her. I finally had to make a cover flap and glue it on her so they wouldn't open it up and she could heal.


Sorry about the calf, that poor girl.
 
A few years ago the coyotes were so thick and hungry around here they were starting to eat calves while the cows were laying down to calve. That's not pretty.....
 
The coyotes have been working our calving cows pretty hard....seems there's two on every cow calving. Some of the cows get pretty worked up! I don't think they have the nerve to go after a calf but are trying to deke the cow away from the afterbirth. However I did pick up a twin in the storm last week that is missing it's tail.....either stepped on or chewed off :mad: The yotes are pretty gunshy and it is tough to get close enough for a shot.
 
Around here the state predator control comes through with a helicopter every once in awhile. The local trapper is one of the gunners when they fly around here. One day they got 104 about 25 miles from me.
 
Cedarcreek said:
Around here the state predator control comes through with a helicopter every once in awhile. The local trapper is one of the gunners when they fly around here. One day they got 104 about 25 miles from me.
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Yep-- they got a bunch here the last time they flew the creek...These old river bottom yotes are tough to get- either trapping, poisoning, or flying....Pretty smart- and enough timber to hide from the copter..

I see coyotes loping thru the cows- and checking out the feedgrounds off and on (one day had 4 in there)- but have had no problems with calves...Think they are mostly looking for afterbirth- and eating on manure pies...
But they are wary- if you slow down to get a gun out the window they kick it into high gear- and are gone.....
 
Have you checked out compensation for your losses? I believe I read somewhere that the Sask gov't finally stepped up to the plate.
Had a go around with wolves a few years ago and the only help was to send out a trapper. He caught a couple little crap eating coyotes and the wolves moved on after I camped out and shot one in the act.
I saw this trapper a year or so later and he told me how quiet my cattle were. " I caught one of your heifers in a wolf master power snare and she just laid there and let me slip the loop off her foot."
I had given the heifer my two rounds of oxy-tet limit (peak bse years) and shot her a while later when her foot fell off. Had I known what happened I would have salvaged her.
Beware "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"
 
I did check into compensation, it is looked after by crop insurance and they sent out 2 adjusters. it was the first case they had dealt with so was a bit of thinking going on. They were very glad that i had taken photos, like he said a pic like that is worth a thousand words. I am usally OK with the losses that we incure but this one kind of stuck with me. :mad:
 
Kind of a big stretch from adjusting wheat to calves-the wages for the two adjusters is probably going to be more than they pony up for the calf. Hope they didn't give you too much of a hassle-usually you don't find enough to take a picture of. An old neighbor had a big boar bear killing cattle one spring SERM said they needed evidence-he gave them some a dead bear on top of a dead yearling-saw a PB Charolais cow that looks like she got her face swatted last summer.
 
Gosh...so sorry guys for your loss. Sounds like your doin all you can to prevent it.

We have coyotes here and there. But knock on wood never have had a problem with them. Now we have had a pack of town dogs that got hold of one of our heifer calves.....and started work on her similar to these photos. But luckily she wasn't tore up that bad and we were able to save her.
 
Just had a big male cross fox trot by the house-he'll tune up some gophers-the yotes get the odd twin on us. It's funny when we pen calved if a cow got out she'd bugger off to hell knows where to calve-out on the grass they don't go to far from the herd.
 
Yeah i have noticed that this year, when i go to check in the morning i often find calves right in with the group as opposed to the corners of the pastures. Had a calf last night that was alone before dark about a 100 yards from the other incident, was a tough call to leave it or haul it home. Usally moma's know best but after 1 loss a guy gets gun shy. Went out this AM everybody was fine and paired up but made for alot of tossing in the night.
 

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