What is A Pen

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mnyotefoxer

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I am familiar with coon hunting my family does it but what is a pen is it fenced in and do they train the hounds in there for coyotes and bobcats. What is the purpose.

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It's a few hundred acres of varried terrain that's mesh fenced. The pen owner buys coyotes to populate the pen. Then he rents usage of his pen to people for training their hounds. The coyotes are not to be killed. If you kill one, you have just bought it. At about $250.
Pens are great to check out new dogs, freshen up old ones, and get pups started. Do a search here and you'll find more posts on "pens".
 
Beagler and NASA are both right. All the pens here the guys use 8 foot (2x4 welded wire) and bend it a foot at the bottom (to keep from digging) and bent a foot at the top (to keep from climbing over) All the pens around here have mostly coyotes in them, and only a couple even have a fox or two at best. Coyotes will run longer and better during the day, and have more stamina than a fox, but it takes more of a hound (in my opinion) to run a fox constatly when they are acting "sly" and turning and ducking every which way. Like NASA said they are used for training pups, or conditioning older hounds. There are escape areas for the coyotes, tubes behind electric fences, brush piles. Their own dens too. Coyotes are not to be caught, and if they do get bayed/caught the hound owners are to try to keep the coyote alive. Because they do cost money to buy.
And also like beagler said, with hound running areas on the "outside" continuly shrinking, these pens are becoming more common. I hope these few post have given you a little more insite. See ya, MOyotehunter
 
i wish there were more pens closer to me. the closest pen is over 2 hours away for me. i like running pens in the summer to give my hounds more exercise. a bunch of us get together at nights and run out hounds and sit around a camp fire and tell lies all night and listen to our hounds. LOL i have run in pens from 10 acres to 40 to 100 to 350 acres.

Vargy
 
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