Re: Coyotes and calves

Posted by Ron in Nebr on September 07, 2011 at 00:58:43 from (66.252.113.36):

In Reply to: Coyotes and calves posted by rrlund on September 06, 2011 at 07:10:23:

We're in North Central Nebraska, in the heart of the Sandhills(look it up on a map and see how isolated we are) and we calve out about 900 or so head of cows every spring. Our family's been on the same place since the 1880's...I, and my granddad before me, have been avid coyote hunters for fur, so we've been around and seen alot of coyotes and their doings...One thing rings true above all the rest below- you never know WHAT'S gonna happen when it comes to a coyote!

I've never personally witnessed it, but I've heard of 'em pulling a half-born calf out of a cow...I'd believe that if possibly the cow couldn't get up and had been down a long time...

Like mentioned- a good cow will NOT let a coyote anywhere near a calf...newborn or not! Those that've seen coyotes eating a newborn calf, I'd bet good money the cow had a dead calf and eventually gave up and went to eat- then the coyotes moved in(that's how they make their living). For the guy who had the cow come back to where the calf was and raise cain in the area where he'd been eaten...that cow smelled BOTH coyote and calf...I regularly have them do that with just where a dead calf was that I'd picked up earlier before the cow got back.

I only know about coyotes around here...these "eastern coyotes as big as german shepards" don't exist around here. But one things for sure, there's never been a "pack of coyotes" that has killed a critter in these parts....a coyote, around here, is a solitary animal...you may see two together at times, but that's cause they're mating. A "Pack" of coyotes, at least around here, means there's dog blood in there, and, at least in these parts, we just don't see them in packs. Ever. It may sound like one at night, sure, but that's just pups talking to each other about what a pleasant evening they're having.

All in all, to answer the op's question, no, out of 40+ years of calving out 600-1000 head of momma cows each spring(and some in the fall way back when), I've never seen a coyote kill a calf. I know it's occasionally happened to a weak or abandoned calf and have seen the results of that, but the good healthy ones...nope.

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• Re: Coyotes and calves Traditional Farmer 04:37:35 09/07/11 (0)

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