Coyotes in the Fraser Valley... "Pest" or not?

Living in rosedale on a farm with both dairy cows and chickens. My uncle and I usually carry a scatter gun when out in the field. The trouble is having niehbours inside of 1000 yards. High power single projectile is unsafe. After we had a couple stillborn calves in the field last year they started to get a taste for them and started getting more brave. The neighbor knocked them down a few pegs. Last night right at dusk they were calling each other from tree groves around the edge of my property. They're also hard on cats too. I dislike raccoons way more, cocky bastards! Way harder on chickens. Awfully tough too. I wouldn't shoot a coyote unless I was on a farm. They need to live somewhere too. As long as you keep them down to size, they're easily manageable. If you want to hunt them the best time is the middle of duck season, you see them wandering mid day, I presume they're looking for wounded or dead ducks(shot but managed to fly out of view of the hunter before dropping)
 
The one offence in the BC game regulations that has traditionally been violated more times than any other, and people charged for it the most, is without doubt, the offence of having a loaded firearm on or in a motor vehicle.
And OP, you have just told the world that you not only had a loaded gun on your quad, but you actually travelled with a loaded gun on your quad, by advancing toward the coyote, after you put the magazine in your gun!
Of course, you had a wonderful excuse for doing so.
"Your Honour, that coyote was not friendly toward me and I was just protecting myself against an attack!"
 
I live in Rosedale also, never had much of a problem with them in the past, but they are definitely getting bolder, and there are a few large packs around my area. One of the employees at the farm across the tracks from me has told me they are actually entering the barn on occasion now, and they took out a goat a couple of months ago from the neighbor behind me, he now shuts his goats in at night. I hear them every night these days, and I don't think many people are doing any " pest control " in my area, I can see them becoming more of a problem for sure. Most of them are small, but I ran into one walking my dog a few months ago that was as big as a German Shepherd, biggest 'yote I have seen by far, he was a monster!
 
Their population will expand due to an abundant food source and will decrease as it diminishes. We now have Yotes on our Plant property which has a direct correlation to the reduction in costs associated with Canada Geese and Cormorant control. As long as they do not harm the workers we will leave them alone because it rids us off of a tremendous health and safety issue. They are no different anywhere else.
 
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