Sorry but I don’t understand the connection between coyotes and fox pens, must be something unique to the south
Method for catching live coyotes by hand
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TXCOONDOG
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Some like to chase fox and coyotes with dogs and there are closed in areas to do this without the worry of dogs getting hit by vehicles, running off game, getting on private property, and much easier to catch your hounds when you are ready to go.
DoubleLungRage
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They rather run coyotes instead of foxes because they claim that coyotes give a better chase than foxes do.
IndexFinger
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AHhhhhh, so aka: .. Hillbilly Dog Fighting ?
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DoubleLungRage
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Would you consider rabbit, coon, bird, duck, etc, hunting with dogs "hillbilly dog fighting"?
IndexFinger
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Not really, as it's not 'Normally' done in a confined fenced-in area. It all to obvious that the run Dogs are going to mix-it-up with the Coyote if the area has non-cross hard boundaries .
Spurchaser
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They don’t catch the coyotes, it’s trailing the coyotes. No killing. It’s a big sport down South. Sorta like Field Trials for quail dogs, lol.
Spurchaser
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$75-100 bucks for a GA coyote is good money, especially if your getting paid to catch them already.
DoubleLungRage
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Most of the hillbillies that own pens here actually vaccinate the coyotes. They also make escape routes and “rooms” for them.
Spurchaser
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Haha, people pay to run their hounds and payouts and points are given. Those coyotes are taken care of better than some dogs. They’re particular about what they take as well. Any type of foot damage and they won’t take them. That’s why trappers are real careful about their traps used.
IndexFinger
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I have never heard of such a thing in my life ?. So it a theater designed for people to pay entrance, compete, and judged. To see how fast there dogs can track a Coyote ?
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Oldcoyotetrapper
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Facts.
DoubleLungRage
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I forgot about this post.
However, if you aren't being sarcastic...
Fox "hunting" with hounds used to be a very big thing here in the South. Back then there was no such thing as "private" land whenever it came to hunting. You could turn out 100 hounds and hunt the entire country side. Then everything started to change. The plantations gave way to neighborhoods, the timber industry took off, people started posting their land, etc. So people got together and started building "fox pens". They would fence in several hundred acres of land to run their dogs on. The fences kept their dogs contained and off of other people's property. Some would have field trials where dogs would be judged, scored, etc. Some just liked to hear the dogs run.
Well, somewhere in that time line someone introduced coyotes to the mix. Coyotes are not native to South Carolina. It is said that they give the dogs a better run. So the trappers catch the coyotes then sale them to "fox pens". They don't want the dogs to catch and/or kill the coyotes so they make ways that they can escape to safety from the dogs. They also don't want their dogs catching any diseases from the coyotes so they feed the coyotes, vaccinate them, etc.
You can also pretty much replace the fox hunting story with the deer hunting story.
IndexFinger
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no sarcasm, just never heard of catching, selling, and penning coyotes for fenced hound runs .
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sandman22250
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Spurchaser
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I’d give it a go IF I lived closer to a pen and had somewhere to keep them to be profitable enough to make the drive.
It reminds me that one of the trappers I chatted, told me that he would take the coyotes home alive, to kill them at the last minute.
He's in the state of Louisiana.
He hate cold skinning coyotes, so he waits until the last moment.
It's interesting and not many trappers do it.
They tie up all his coyotes with paracord.
It's a good idea but I don't know if it's legal in all states?
Too bad, It must be fun to tie upNo thanks I wouldn’t like to test a coyote bite or give up any of my fingers
Spurchaser
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None of our coyotes are worth skinning. I get paid to catch already. If I trapped full time it might pay to build pens and get everything set up for keeping them. Right now with a full time job and just doing this mornings/evenings and weekends, it’s just not worth it.