[AT] Thanksgiving Day tractor chores+trees

[charliehill]

Farmer, what do you think sounds worse, the sound a human hears when a 
coyote howls or the sound a coyote hears when a human throws down on him 
with a .223.  Hmmm I guess that's not a good question because the coyote 
probably never hears the .223 unless you miss.

We've got a few coyotes around here now.  The danged fox hunters actually 
brought them in here for their dogs to chase in "fox pens".  Of course they 
got out.  The big problem here these days  is too many foxes and no 
preditors to take care of them.  Rabbits and especially quail are getting to 
be scrarce around here becasue of the foxes.

Charlie
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From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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> One thing coyotes will eat is chickens. When we raised sheep I would
> walk the fields daily and I would see coyote tracks in the snow all of
> the time.
> I did a lot of research on them and one thing that kept coming up was
> that there are good coyotes and bad coyotes (much like dogs and
> people) and if you had good coyotes (those that just ate little stuff)
> then you should leave them alone. It was indicated that there will
> always be a given number of coyotes per sq. mile in any area they
> inhabit and if you kill off the coyotes you have more will take their
> place and if you kill off good ones their spot may be taken by bad
> ones. Of course if you have bad ones then you will want to get rid of
> them in hopes that their spot will be taken by good ones.
> While they are doing no harm here now all of that blood curdling
> howling and carrying on at night can be pretty unnerving.
> The problem we had here years ago was the crossing with dogs. The bad
> ones were often coy-dogs. They had less fear of dogs and people both
> and in some cases were more prone to vicious behavior. They also got a
> lot bigger than the original coyotes. While the originals were larger
> than a fox they were smaller than many dogs. I have seen coy-dogs that
> were as large as a large German Shepherd.
> While I would never advocate sending kids out alone after dark many
> things get blamed on coyotes just because they are there and a handy
> scape-goat.
> Some of it reminds me of years ago when a lot more people were getting
> wood burning stoves. There was a big increase in house fires largely
> due to careless or inexperienced users. The problem though was that
> then wood stoves became a scape goat and a huge number of house fires
> were blamed on wood stoves when it actually had nothing to do with the
> fire but if there was a wood stove in the house it was listed as the
> cause. Yes Virginia, while most firefighters are a fine bunch of
> fellows there also some really stupid ones out there too. Ask any good
> fireman, he can name at least one idiot on every department he has
> ever worked with.
> :-)
> One local small department was called up on the carpet south of here
> back then (1970s) for blaming a fire on a wood stove just because it
> was there. It turned out that fire had very obviously started in a
> wall 15' feet across the room from the stove in a wall outlet and the
> home owner said that they had not had a fire in that stove for 3
> weeks. Not only did the state fire marshal's office challenge the
> little local departments silly findings, they did it publicly and in a
> very chaste manner which was quite rare.
> With coyotes it tends to be a case of hear a few coyotes and lose a
> chicken so it must have been the coyotes. It may have been the
> neighbors dog or a raccoon instead but nobody heard them making all of
> those spooky noises.
> :-)
> Over population can be a problem with any wildlife and coyotes are no
> exception. Numbers had kind of stabilized around here but I suspect
> the numbers are creeping up again. It may become necessary to "thin"
> their numbers again.
> I think the white tail deer numbers are getting a little high again
> now too. The deer were very costly to me several years ago when their
> numbers got too high and they pretty much ate one years corn profits
> and then some.
>
>
> --
> "farmer"
>
> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
> Morris Moulterd
>
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> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
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