Coyote Hunting Pig Farms

Ledgewoodhunter

Ledgewoodhunter

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I just got permission to coyote hunt a pig farm this winter once deer season ends. The owner says he has a bunch running around.

I have hunted dairy farms, but never a piggery.

Anyone here have experience with this type of property for coyotes? Do they probe the pigs like they do with calfing pens?

I plan on putting my time in there and finding out first hand, just curious what you all have experienced?

Thanks
 
I'm kind of in the same boat, but I don't YET have a some experience with coyotes around pig farms. I became acquainted with the manager of a pig form here in Wyoming and he was telling me how the coyotes near the farm have become numerous and somewhat brave, so he's going to allow me to set up near the feeder bins and call coyotes. I'm planning on going out this weekend and trying the property out.

This manager was telling me how the pig farm will have a sow die giving birth or have still born piglets, so they have a carcass pile that usually gets fed on by coyotes, fox, crow etc...
The farm doesn't have any trouble with coyotes coming into the pens because the hogs are kept and fed inside a temperature regulated building. Their biggest problem is the raccoons that are getting into the feed bunks and barns night. Currently they're using live traps and cat food to rid them, but they are having more success catching feral cats...a win in my book because I have a hate-hate relationship with cats.

On an interesting side note.
He was also telling me about a time some years ago when the farm had scientists come out who were researching different methods of sterilizing coyotes. They had a dozen or so pens of coyotes right there on the pig farm where they were doing their research. The coyotes had tracking devices implanted in them and apparently a couple got out and were shot by a few local fellas. After this incident the coyotes were released throughout the region. True or not, its an interesting story.

I don't know if this helps you or not, but thought I'd give some you some info I found interesting. Hopefully after this weekend I'll have a better idea on how to hunt pig farms.

Best of luck!
 
I'm all ears Zegle. Interested in how you make out. I know with the cows, if they had been given medicines the yotes wouldn't feed on the dead ones. I even took a knife and cut the hide back and opened up a few to entice them in the dead of winter. They wouldnt eat them. But some of the neighbors dogs would...
 
So what is about pigs and yotes anyways? I have lived in the same place for 20 years and had horses most of that time. Yotes all around but never coming really close in. My daughter finds a pig wandering in the woods a month ago so we put it in a horse stall as just another animal hobo rescue.
Amazing, suddenly I have the whole damned pack right in my yard. Bold and brazen they just wouldn't leave until I ran right at the things. The same thing has happened 4 times in just a few weeks, always at night between 2100 and 0300. Weird to have all that yipping and commotion 30' from the house. I have the 12 gauge and 00 buck and a light on the barrel ready now for the next incursion.
Now in 20 years they never came that close once that I know of and suddenly they are here all the time. Do you think it was getting the pig that did all this? The horses that used to attack anything that came in the field just stand there looking stupid. Too weird. So what is it about pigs that sends these things loopy? Ours are darned well fed around here and super sized like all the other Eastern yotes I have ever seen.
Anyways Im getting sick of their close in company. I parked the truck in the middle of the field in front of the barn to let my new friends get used to it. After a couple days I'm going to go sit back in the and see who shows up.
 
Haven't you guys heard coyotes love bacon!
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Regarding the pig farms,

I would say if the pig farm has a set up for composting the moralities or a dead pile, depending on what the regs are for disposal of livestock moralities are, that would be the place to conduct a stake out or ambush perhaps along with a little canine pup in distress, but I would start with just setting up to ambush whatever ones show up at the "buffet"
 
My property bumps against a pig farm. Coyotes are everywhere. After I brush hogged the fields and killed one, I haven't seen any around. I hear them all the time in the distance, but they haven't been very close lately. Maybe I scared them all off. Saw a fox and some deer though. Better than all the coyotes running around for sure.
 
My friend in Oklahoma told me that coyotes will not eat dead hog carcasses... I thought he was crazy... but I've killed 3 hogs in the past few months and coyotes did not touch any of them.

That's pretty bad when a coyote won't eat a hog...WOW


Edited... Maybe coyotes smelled my scent on the hogs and backed off... don't know...
 
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Advice nose plugs pigs stink me and father in law raise a few to butcher and couldn't Imagine sitting and calling in one.. have called crows in a buddies of mine but his pig lot was huge for the amount of hogs in it.
 
One of the most foul smelling pelts are coyotes working confinement dead pigs. They will also get diarrhea and mange, and keep your vehicle upwind of the buildings.
 
Originally Posted By: spotstalkshootOne of the most foul smelling pelts are coyotes working confinement dead pigs. They will also get diarrhea and mange, and keep your vehicle upwind of the buildings.

Huh. I wonder if pigs will eat dead coyotes? Lol
 
I am a welder on the side and I fix hog confinements. Two places that I take care of always have yotes around about two hours after dark. the deceased pile is a very popular hang out. it sends chills up and down your spine when you hear them out there going crazy by the pile.
 
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