This morning.... Coyote

[MissFitFarm]

Sorry about the trouble you are having Southern. But with the dog and DS you may come out smelling like a rose... lol nice shot and good pic's. Ours are about the same size you have there looks like only our coloring is more gray and brown. those critters off your place.

 

[OneFineAcre]

Wow a coyote under #100 around here is skin and bones. Are you coyotes mixed with something else or are ours?

If your's are that big, they are definitely mixed with dog or wolf. Best I've been able to find, the largest pure coyote ever recorded was 75 lbs. There was one a few years ago in NY that was supposed to be 100 lbs but they found out it was one of those wolf/dog hybrids.

Average coyote is about 30 lbs.

 

[OneFineAcre]

At 100 lbs I would imagine yours are crossed probably with wolf. The red wolf here in NC (coyoye /wolf hybrid really) in around 75 lbs or so.
As small as these guys are they really do some damage. 2-3 of these can bring down a very large deer buck easily. My DH has a coworker that got home (last year) to find her horse foaling in the pasture... the coyotes were already eating the foal before it was out... damage done was extensive. Horse was euthanized.
In our immediate vicinity they are usually small packs of 3-5. Numbers are increasing though.
DS went hunting this am... lots of noise but didn't see them... we are watchful and just wait.

You and I definitely agree about those "so called" red wolves we have on the Alligator River Wildlife Refuge. Darn coyote/dog/wolf mixes that the darn environmentalist have shoved down our throats as an alleged endangered species.

Vast majority of coyote livestock loss is during birth, cows and sheep. Sorry about foal, but that would fit the pattern.

Coyotes are actually not a pack animal, spend most of their lives solitary. They form "groups" in late fall and winter if food is scarce. Gives them an advantage to try to take a deer.

In my area, I think that's our big advantage. They aren't hungry because there are so many deer hit by cars that there is plenty for them to eat.

 

[Southern by choice]

You nailed it one fine!
The "red wolf"
such a joke and people will buy that crap all day long too.

Maybe they are just hungrier here. When they use to come up behind our warehouse there were usually 6 eyes.. 3... we only see 3 together when we actually catch a glimpse... wonder if sometimes it is a mom with her babies... I don't know anything about their breeding cycle. The cattle farm next to us tend to have larger packs when they come in. But yes often you will just see one here and there... maybe they organize.You know the chickens did in Chicken Run! Here it does coincide with kidding season as it is late fall all through winter. Once there are a good deal of other critters out there we don't have a problem... the intensity is usually at it's worst when it is really cold.
For the most part we leave em alone except when they are right on us. Maybe they like it here cuz they think this is the poultry store! Their very own "Kroger".

 

[OneFineAcre]

We have them coming at us 3 ways.

They have been naturally migrating east to west.

Then the idiot environmentalists put coyote/dog mixes on a wildlife refuge and called them "red wolves". For those of you not familiar with the great state of NC, our wildlife resource commission is currently being sued by the Southern Environmental Coalition of Certified Morons for allowing coyotes to be shot at night with spotlights. Seems a few of their collared cross breeds on the Alligator River have been shot. What did someone say, SSS, Shoot,Shovel, and Shut up? Out there it's SSTTCINTDRandS
Shoot, Shovel Throw The Collar in The River and Shut UP

Then, the darn fox hunters trapped them and put them in the fox pens for training fox hounds. A whole bunch of those on the coastal plain. Of course, they got out of the pens and are breeding like crazy.

 

[AshleyFishy]

Yeah down here the coyotes are much more leggy. They are sure not as aggressive as it sounds like your's are. They mostly just pick off stray cats or clean up cattle carcasses.

 

[Southern by choice]

We have them coming at us 3 ways.

They have been naturally migrating east to west.

Then the idiot environmentalists put coyote/dog mixes on a wildlife refuge and called them "red wolves". For those of you not familiar with the great state of NC, our wildlife resource commission is currently being sued by the Southern Environmental Coalition of Certified Morons for allowing coyotes to be shot at night with spotlights. Seems a few of their collared cross breeds on the Alligator River have been shot. What did someone say, SSS, Shoot,Shovel, and Shut up? Out there it's SSTTCINTDRandS
Shoot, Shovel Throw The Collar in The River and Shut UP

Then, the darn fox hunters trapped them and put them in the fox pens for training fox hounds. A whole bunch of those on the coastal plain. Of course, they got out of the pens and are breeding like crazy.

SSTTCINTDR and shut up! PRICELESS!

so... what does the "D" stand for?

 

[OneFineAcre]

SSTTCINTDR and shut up! PRICELESS!

so... what does the "D" stand for?

"Darn"

 

[Southern by choice]

Yeah...

 

[bonbean01]

They are certainly migrating...more seen this fall here than ever...so called Red Wolf...and yes, was reading about this a few weeks ago...to preserve a breed of wolf...you cross them with coyotes??? What??? That makes no sense...then they release them...right back to where people raise livestock and wonder why they are being shot???? Pretty stupid...and not to happy to have them here now. Some have been shot in our area, but no mention of collars. Much bigger than the ordinary coyote, and they are bad enough.