Coyotes.. Peoples Schedules, and Repetitive Habits

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I love night hunting coyotes. The coyote hunting I enjoy Less are the ones I got to get-up out of warm bed, and be out the house and in the pasture, and set-up to spot and shoot @ 04:45 to 07:00 . That new morning sunrise hitting me in the face always gets me the red-eyes and I always DraggingAss tired for the rest of the day.
Got a text that a chicken head count was made and there were 8 or 9 shy this week. So using the mindset of.. Coyotes pick-up/learn very quick Peoples Schedules, and Repetitive Habits. They know all the animals you have, of all the land owner in territory it was born, and runs it's routes in. Then they pass that same knowledge to the 1st year dogs that shadow the older dogs running their routes.

So.. Land owner drives out off property same every morning @ exactly 05:00, with wife getting up @ 07:00 every morning to let dogs out of house to piss, and then feed animals before 08:00 .
Every morning it the same-o' same-o'. @ 05:00 Coyotes hear the diesel and the tires crunching on the long gravel drive, with hitting the loud rattling steel cattle guard. That's the Dinner Bell .
Coyotes come in @ in-between 05:30 to 07:00 to get chicken breakfast, because chickens are out walking scratching and clucking and just not to bright.

So just like I thought, a full mature Coyote pops out across opposite side of pasture on the Scanner, Faces the barn coral, horses, goat pens, and chickens.at Exactly 05:30 . He was just relaxed and doing a little sniffing and just hanging out waiting for that time slot with bad murky Dawn light between dark and light to grab feathers and run.

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Lazer32 said:
It's amazing how well they learn. Congrats and hopefully you're able to stop the chicken killing.
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I been going to this property off and on for years, sometimes coyotes are not that bad in that area, and some years they are just a terror and running thick. There just a lot of AG land and huge orchard acreages in that side of county. It not just chickens..LOL but there just a lot of grey diggers, rabbits, mice ..etc. that attach to that kind of AG. plenty of food to boom huge coyote populations .
They try to free range their chickens because the quality of eggs and meat are SOoooo much better than Pen raised . The free rangers are smart in the aspect that they do roost in high spots all over the barn area inside and out. The older they get though, the lower they tend to roost....LOL

I remember for a few years they tried to raise those free range Big white Turkeys for thanksgiving pre-orders on private customers. Those get a premium price for thanksgiving and holidays, I think they were getting like 50-$ each processed and ready to cook. The Frikkiin coyotes stealthing-in killed the shit out of the profits, and young stupid coyotes were the worst, as they would mangle 3 before actually killing one. So you had to also destroy the maimed one to . I just asked them this morning when I popped this dog, if they were going to do Turkeys. ..."hell No" .
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Coyote in my area run from truck/car activity but ignore school buses. Told my hunting buddy we need a bus, spot the coyote and come back later with the truck.
 
crapshoot said:
Interesting coloration, almost like a red heeler cross.
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Your talking about ?? . that color.. like that 'red heeler;' brownish that see on the head/face .
( that color ) I see a lot on dogs around here . . I never really got into the differences in colors to much from the different areas I go to . I am sure interbreeding/interbreeding makes color traits standout predominant a little different from area to area.
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I'm viewing on a cell so colors and clarity may not be the same as a computer. The coat just seemed to have that muddled red and white coat.
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