Coyote population ....

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COYOTE POPULATION ....
Excuse the language....just too good.
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The Alberta Government and the Alberta Forest Service were*presenting an alternative to Alberta ranchers for controlling the*coyote population. It seems that after years of the ranchers using the*tried and true methods of shooting and/or trapping the predators, the*tree-huggers had a 'more humane' solution.
What they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, the males*would then be castrated and let loose again. Therefore the population*would be controlled.*This was ACTUALLY proposed to the Alberta*Ranching Association and Farming* Association by the Alberta*Government and the Alberta Forest Service.
All of the ranchers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of*minutes. Finally, one of the old boys in the back of the conference*room stood up, tipped his hat back and said, 'Son, I don't think you*understand our problem.**Those coyotes ain't ####in' our sheep - they're eatin' 'em!'
You should have been there to hear the roar of laughter!
 
The version I heard - quite a while ago now - was that the very same idea had been proposed in Nova Scotia, and at that time by Elizabeth May.
 
On a serious note, a rancher friend of mine was informed the best way to control coyote population is to just leave them be.

He said if you shoot the alpha female, the rest of the females go into heat, and you get MORE coyotes.

Any truth to that?
 
"... they proposed was for the animals to be captured alive, the males would then be castrated..." The 'tree huggers' say who should pay for their silly ideas?
 
canucklehead said:
On a serious note, a rancher friend of mine was informed the best way to control coyote population is to just leave them be.

He said if you shoot the alpha female, the rest of the females go into heat, and you get MORE coyotes.

Any truth to that?
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I have heard the same thing and I can't say with any authority about it's validity. It sounds a little silly to me because K9s come into heat twice a year, as a general rule, but maybe song dogs are different??
 
Crashman said:
I have heard the same thing and I can't say with any authority about it's validity. It sounds a little silly to me because K9s come into heat twice a year, as a general rule, but maybe song dogs are different??
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Coyotes breed in late Winter & have their pups in the Spring. That way the pups have all Summer & Fall to get ready for Winter.
 
Coyote problem

This guy used to have a Coyote problem, ......dosen't anymore!
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AKD said:
I hunt coyote..... but that ^^^^ is horrible.
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What's horrible about it? Since like the guy (or some guy) took the time to skin out all those yotes, fox and bobcat, and since that would be quite a chore, it is reasonable to expect he would have been taking that fur to market.
 
They already tried to control a deer population by sterilizing them in a crowded (by humans) area. It was found that, unless the said population is isolated from any new blood the strerilization does not work. The sterile dominants are rapidly replaced by another and become nomadic and lose a big part of it's combativity because a lack of hormones. In an open area, there is no way to avoid new blood to come around.
 
That's a photograph of Marty Senneker, a snaring expert from Hays Alberta.
He sells a DVD outlining his snaring techniques.

The Alberta Government has done studies with him and his break away snares to help develop methods that lessen the capture of deer.
 
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