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Young Coyote and Cow

Jassy

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This morning I caught this young coyote wanting to check out the new baby calf hiding in the grass, but the ole mother cow was watching him closely. I was surprised that the coyote didn't run off when I pulled up, but after a short time he wandered off and all was good.
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kolanuraven

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I just got done cutting have today for over 6 hrs and just as I was leaving the last field...I looked over my right shoulder to a back corner and there were about 4 ' yotes snufflin thru the cut hay.

The tractor didn't seem to scare them, hardly noticed me. So I parked it, left it running and scampered to the house for a rifle. And OF COURSE when I got back not hide nor hair to be seen of them

So I'm gonna get a shower and go back and sit on top of the barn roof that way I get a clear shot @ all 3 fields. I guess the tractor sound was the dinner bell for them today!!
 

efb

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Talking about having your gun along reminds me of my friend just east of Waxahachie, TX who drove out to the pasture one night to check a cow that he thought was about to calve. As they were shining the light to spot the cow they spotted a coyote . He handed the light to a fellow with him and shot at the coyote. When they got over there they found the cow they were looking for laying about 40 yards behind where the coyote was. Blood gushing out of her head . He had shot her right through the head but she was still alive. She lived, had her calf and fully recovered. His vet told him there was a hollow spot through a cows head and evidently the bullet went through that hollow spot.

NR ... luckily she was an EXT or it would have killed her :lol:

This story is completely true except for the EXT part.
 

Jassy

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I have enuff trouble "shooting" with a camera let alone a gun..lol I asked hubby once if he would teach me to shoot, but he said not as long as we were married..it was safer for him that way...lol
 

Mrs.Greg

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Must be year of the Coyote,today sitting on deck,THREE yotes walk threw our yard right in front of us...I ran for camera,greg for gun,took off when greg shot I didn't get pic....think they came right into yard to eat apples off ground,no wander we can't keep cats around :mad:
 

Ranchy

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Good thing that mama was on the ball, Jassy! :shock: Derned coyotes are nearly as bad as a wolf......... :evil:
 

Mrs.Greg

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Ranchy said:
Good thing that mama was on the ball, Jassy! :shock: Derned coyotes are nearly as bad as a wolf......... :evil:
I don't know what you guys feed your Yotes but we have NEVER had a yote attack a calf,we have too many gophers and mice maybe,they're too full to eat a calf....don't know but its never happened and we have LOTS of yotes
 

IL Rancher

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Feel the same way about my calves and coyotes Mrs. Greg.. never have a problem with that combo.. Had a problem one year with the lambs and yotes but lthat ppack is no longer with us.. Died of lead poisoning. Since than not a problem and we have TONs of yotes around here too. They eat a lot of voles, moles, mice and carrion.

I have seen them run our pastrues during calving season.. Cows watch them but they keep their distance...
 

Northern Rancher

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I think there's alot to be said to the adage about if the coyotes you have aren't bothering you just leave them alone. The problem with shooting everyone on sight is all their relatives come to the funeral and some stay for the banquet. A scorched earth policy where you poison all the gophers etc tends to make the 'yotes move on to things like calves. You'll never eradicate them entirely so I think it's best to learn to live with them. Most cows worth their salt can fend off a coyote pup or two.
 

Faster horses

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We have never had a problem with coyotes attacking anything and we've lived around them all of our ranching life. We have never had sheep, and they can do a lot of damage to sheep.

However, our neighbor in W. Montana had a HUGE problem with them
during calving season one year. He had to get the helicoptor in to
manage them. They did a lot of damage to his baby calf crop. Especially
eating the back end of calving cows.

We were out Sunday and saw 4 of them. They don't bother us, we
don't bother them. But if they did, it would be a different story.
 

Ranchy

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All I can say is that you guys who don't have trouble with them, are lucky.

Or maybe you have a different type than we do? I don't know what the difference is, except that these down here will take a calf down lickety split, and chew up a cow trying to have a calf about as quickly. Maybe these here are part wolf? I don't know for sure, one way or the other, it's all speculation........... :?
 

IL Rancher

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No, we hear about it all the time around here from people who know someone who knew someone who had it happen.. I am not saying it doesn't happen and we have big Yotes around here (Good eating on roadkill and garbage for the most part)..

I was watching a special on Killer Whales the other night and they were talking about how the Salmon Eating Orcas never hunted mammals while the whale eating ones didn't eat seals and neither of the groups would comingle... What does this mean? Makes me wonder sometimes if the ones killing the livestock in numbers are of the same lineage/family while the ones that don't bother the livestock are a different family that is just all to happy for the easy meals of rodents, road kill and game birds... Probably not but I did notice no problems with yotes and than a pack was killed. 6 months later a new pack moved into a stand of timber on our property and we lost lamb after lamb... 6 22-250 rounds later and a group of 5 dead coyotes and the problem went away and I can tell you the nightly chorus hasn't changed a bit.
 

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