Barking farm dogs

[coyote6974]

What effect do barking farm dogs have on calling?
My most productive calling site is an inpenatrable thicket that comprises about 15 acres. It is surrounded by corn and soybean fields except to the north where there's a good wooded drainage thats has corna and soybean fields bordering it.
About 1/2 mile south of this thicket is a farm house that not been lived in for some time. Last summer the son of the owner of this farm house, and also of this property where this thicket is located, began to renovate the old farm house. He is now living in the house and has three dogs chained up outside.
I always approach this thicket from property to the north and call cyotes out of the thicket into a finger of cropland thats about 75 yards across. Now anytime I blow a call or use a howler here the dogs at the farmhouse begin to bark and caryy on something fierce. I've not been able to get a single coyote out of this thicket this winter. One morning after calling here I circled the area and located a coyote laying in an open field about 300 yards from where I'd been calling from and about 500 yards northeast of the house. Do y'all think these barking dogs would be affecting coyotes coming to calls here?

Good hunting..Coyote 6974

 

[coyotecrazy]

I doubt it, they would probably hear those dog all the time.

 

[Ronald]

A local rancher in my area breeds Australian shepards. I would say she has around 25 dogs. Every time I hit my howler the dogs go nuts. The coyotes still respond. The rancher keeps her dogs kenneled. They dont roam freely at all and I think the coyotes know this. They still come into distress calls and howls. I set up about a quarter mile away from the kennels when I call her land.

 

[Pilgrim on Earth]

Before I even finished reading your post I said to myself, this guy must be hunting in Indiana! It seems like we have dogs barking all over the countryside at every stand.

The only time I was absolutely sure that dogs effected the outcome of a call was when we stopped to call a hay field earlier this year...3 barking dogs started coming up the road from a farm house as soon as we got out of the truck. We walked about 100 yards or so off of the road and started calling. In just a couple of minutes we had two coyotes coming to the call...All the while the dogs are getting closer and louder.

The dogs were relentless...the coyotes had been coming in good, but when the dogs were basically right behind us (still on the road) both coyotes hung up and then left quickly.

Other times, we've had dogs come up right behind us (barking all the way)...We were in good coyote areas, but saw nothing. Now, when dogs are barking real close to us (say, within 200 yards) we just write it off and leave.

It doesn't seem that dogs barking off in the distance effects anything.

 

[Nikonut]

I hunt a 240acre farm that has a similar setup here in Illinois. The only time I have problems is when I try to come in from the side the farmer's house is on. His dogs can see me no matter where I park and start barking and don't stop until I'm gone. I've even parked at the house(invited) and fed the dogs treats, then walked in...same thing, more barking! Dogs that just bark when I call don't seem to bother the coyotes at all. Nikonut /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif