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It seems to be the same way here. Last year I thought it was real bad but we had a real mild winter. This year we have had some tough storms with temps below 0 several days in a row which is very cold for Kansas standards so hopefully that speeds the process up. During one of these cold spells my partner and I were driving around scouting for an up coming contest and we were driving around a dairy. We decided we would get out and brave the -temp wind chills and get atop a hill to do some glassing. On our way back from atop the hill a nasty ole mangy coyote ran right past my pickup not more than 20 ft from the tail gate. It had ran out of some hay bales that we had parked our pickup by. We kind of had our laughs and decided to get back in our pickup but before doing so we decided to kick off all the ice that was on my running boards. As we were driving away another coyote ran right out in front of us not more than 10 feet from the pickup he was also very mangy. We continue to leave and look back and another mangy coyote ran right out of the bales but did not like the cold much and just stood there and looked at us. We decide we would get out and check out the bales to see how many were living in the bales, but all we found was a house cat and some large tunnels in the hay. So I guess the mangy coyotes are even smart and have ways of surviving. During the contest we hunted in the same area and we shot 9 coyotes total in 2 days and 7 of those coyotes had mange real bad so I guess we helped the process of ending mange by stopping 7 coyotes from spreading it to good coyotes, if there are any left....It seems like we always see mangy coyotes by theirselves except for on one occassion during the contest when we called in a triple and there was 1 good coyote and 2 mangy ones. Has anybody else noticed that the good hair coyotes kind of tend to stay together and the mangy ones do the same? I know the mangy ones smell real bad but do you think coyotes care and tend not to associate with mangy ones?

<blockquote data-quote="JeremyKS" data-source="post: 56327" data-attributes="member: 6363"><p>It seems to be the same way here.&nbsp; Last year I thought it was real bad but we had a real mild winter.&nbsp; This year we have had some tough storms with temps below 0 several days in a row which is very cold for Kansas standards so hopefully that speeds the process up.&nbsp; During one of these cold spells my partner and I were driving around scouting for an up coming contest and we were driving around a dairy.&nbsp; We decided we would get out and brave the -temp wind chills and get atop a hill to do some glassing.&nbsp; On our way back from atop the hill a nasty ole mangy coyote ran right past my pickup not more than 20 ft from the tail gate.&nbsp; It had ran out of some hay bales that we had parked our pickup by.&nbsp; We kind of had our laughs and decided to get back in our pickup but before doing so we decided to kick off all the ice that was on my running boards.&nbsp; As we were driving away another coyote ran right out in front of us not more than 10 feet from the pickup he was also very mangy.&nbsp; We continue to leave and look back and another mangy coyote ran right out of the bales but did not like the cold much and just stood there and looked at us.&nbsp; We decide we would get out and check out the bales to see how many were living in the bales, but all we found was a house cat and some large tunnels in the hay.&nbsp; So I guess the mangy coyotes are even smart and have ways of surviving.&nbsp; During the contest we hunted in the same area and we shot 9 coyotes total in 2 days and 7 of those coyotes had mange real bad so I guess we helped the process of ending mange by stopping 7 coyotes from spreading it to good coyotes, if there are any left....It seems like we always see mangy coyotes by theirselves except for on one occassion during the contest when we called in a triple and there was 1 good coyote and 2 mangy ones.&nbsp; Has anybody else noticed that the good hair coyotes kind of tend to stay together and the mangy ones do the same?&nbsp; I know the mangy ones smell real bad but do you think coyotes care and tend not to associate with mangy ones?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="JeremyKS, post: 56327, member: 6363"] It seems to be the same way here. Last year I thought it was real bad but we had a real mild winter. This year we have had some tough storms with temps below 0 several days in a row which is very cold for Kansas standards so hopefully that speeds the process up. During one of these cold spells my partner and I were driving around scouting for an up coming contest and we were driving around a dairy. We decided we would get out and brave the -temp wind chills and get atop a hill to do some glassing. On our way back from atop the hill a nasty ole mangy coyote ran right past my pickup not more than 20 ft from the tail gate. It had ran out of some hay bales that we had parked our pickup by. We kind of had our laughs and decided to get back in our pickup but before doing so we decided to kick off all the ice that was on my running boards. As we were driving away another coyote ran right out in front of us not more than 10 feet from the pickup he was also very mangy. We continue to leave and look back and another mangy coyote ran right out of the bales but did not like the cold much and just stood there and looked at us. We decide we would get out and check out the bales to see how many were living in the bales, but all we found was a house cat and some large tunnels in the hay. So I guess the mangy coyotes are even smart and have ways of surviving. During the contest we hunted in the same area and we shot 9 coyotes total in 2 days and 7 of those coyotes had mange real bad so I guess we helped the process of ending mange by stopping 7 coyotes from spreading it to good coyotes, if there are any left....It seems like we always see mangy coyotes by theirselves except for on one occassion during the contest when we called in a triple and there was 1 good coyote and 2 mangy ones. Has anybody else noticed that the good hair coyotes kind of tend to stay together and the mangy ones do the same? I know the mangy ones smell real bad but do you think coyotes care and tend not to associate with mangy ones? [/QUOTE]

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