Will coyotes keep the deer away?

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This season I put out some deer feed and a camera at the corner of a farmers field. I never ended up hunting that property and just took a look at the camera yesterday. A couple deer on it passing through but there was a coyote that kept showing up there once or twice a day. During the day as well as the night, until the farmer plowed his field and the feed was buried.
Do I need to get rid of this coyote(s) to better my chance of deer coming by there next year? I heard that killing coyotes only makes them produce more.
 
Coyotes and deer have lived in the same environments for thousands of years. They have learned how to coexist quite well, so I wouldn't sweat it.
 
There tends to be a top dog. Most canines that run in packs have a social hierarchy, of which one canine is the head canine. Kind of like how a lion leads a pride And how you convince your lapdog that he's not the boss.
 
Ribstaylor said:
There tends to be a top dog. Most canines that run in packs have a social hierarchy, of which one canine is the head canine. Kind of like how a lion leads a pride And how you convince your lapdog that he's not the boss.
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Coyotes do not seem to pack up though outside of the winter in Ontario.
 
I've got a couple together on cam a few times during summer and fall months. But I would actually agree with you, as the times in which I've heard large groups of them out in our hunting area would be in the winter. Rarely do I hear them get Chatty together in the summer if at all.
 
Mayday_ said:
This season I put out some deer feed and a camera at the corner of a farmers field. I never ended up hunting that property and just took a look at the camera yesterday. A couple deer on it passing through but there was a coyote that kept showing up there once or twice a day. During the day as well as the night, until the farmer plowed his field and the feed was buried.
Do I need to get rid of this coyote(s) to better my chance of deer coming by there next year? I heard that killing coyotes only makes them produce more.
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"Killing Coyotes only makes them produce more" is animal rights,bunny hugger bullshyte being fed to a gullible public that doesn't know better. Whack every one you see,Deer or no Deer.
 
I don’t think they drive deer away, in a couple locations I set up trail cams where I see lots of deer activity I routinely see predators pass through with regularity and not just coyotes. Doesn’t seem to stop the deer at all.
 
I've had panicked WT's come tearing past me with a coyote pack in hot pursuit.So I lit up the pack with the 250-3000.Have witnessed them running mulies in relays to tire them out.
 
Up till about 5-6 years ago there was a nice deer population where we hunted in Southern Ont. Then we saw more coyote tracks & sightings than deer. Farmers found several deer carcass taken by coyotes as well. The deer numbers plummeted. Early this year we started to hunt the coyotes, their numbers went down & the deer numbers went up. Trail cams also showed when the coyote #'s were up, the deer population was down and vice versa. Don't understand how you could figure otherwise. It isn't just the "old/unhealthy" deer they target, They also hit the fawns in the spring. This concept of predators only taking the SICK & OLD is foolish, the young are the easiest targets.
 
53Izzy744 said:
You have to make sure to get the head coyote.
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Farmers out here dont agree. The bigger older ones seem to respect farmers and keep the younger yotes at bay..

Kinda like having hells angles in your town will clean up all the hood rats.

You shoot the biggest coyote, you will have little.bastards attacking all your animals
 
Head coyote, second in command (2IC), major or corporal, does not mater. The all have teeth and will rip a deer into chewable chunks and they aren't fussy about it being dead before they eat. (Rip open from the rear and eat while it's on the hoof). If you leave em alone they'll be eating YOUR deer quite soon. 10 years ago we never saw a coyote or even a track. Now they're everywhere, the deer numbers are down and even the sheep farmer is loosing animals. I don't want them all taken out but the numbers do have to be cut.
 
When any predator population gets out of control they decimate local,population. In the old days there was a lot more habitat. An out of control population would crash and game animals from other areas would eventually repopulate the decimated area. This cycle would simply repeat itself.

Problem now is lack of habitat. Between modern agriculture urban and suburban sprawl etc.. the cycle has been broken. Coyotes do well in these environments and so they get out if hand. Therefore the only way to ensure a good game population is to shoot and trap them to the point where the population is at a bare minimum.
 
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