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Fawn Killer Gets Lead Poisoning, Is that a good thing?
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<blockquote data-quote="Northerngos" data-source="post: 2270361" data-attributes="member: 115414"><p>Folks who think that predators need to be eliminated ought to tour some of the military bases where deer multiply unchecked. It's disgusting. They don't only kill sick or weak animals but they do kill the impaired when they find them and that's a very very important thing if you don't like disease spreading unchecked. I'm waiting to see if someone will do a well funded study on how coyotes and wolves affect the spread of cwd in ungulates (if they do), or the new disease that is wiping rabbits and hares out like wildfire. </p><p>Another important point to consider is the way coyotes respond to "predation". They do indeed have far more pups when the population is under pressure than they do in a stable population. Anybody who has ever raised predators can tell you that growing pups (or kits, or kittens or whatever) eat a literal **** ton of meat. And the parents are consuming more in order to fuel all the hunting they need to do. If you believe coyotes kill all of the fawns that they can, what do you think they are feeding those pups? Saying "they just have more pups anyways, you can never kill them all, so kill as many as you can" mathematically makes zero sense. Better to say "I enjoy killing things in the off season and coyotes fit the bill."</p><p>I enjoy hunting everything, coyotes included. I live in the country and have a variety of livestock both domestic and exotic. I have had a few issues over the years with fawn predation and poultry predation etc and found it most effective to scare the **** out of them when I catch them at it. When I shoot them somebody else moves right in. I can hear multiple packs from my porch every night, and I've probably lost three free range chickens total in the last four or so years because they educate the pups to give me a wide berth. I don't really care what people do, and as I said I enjoy hunting coyotes, but I make it a point to do so elsewhere so I can keep my well behaved locals alive and I do it in the winter when the pelts are prime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northerngos, post: 2270361, member: 115414"] Folks who think that predators need to be eliminated ought to tour some of the military bases where deer multiply unchecked. It’s disgusting. They don’t only kill sick or weak animals but they do kill the impaired when they find them and that’s a very very important thing if you don’t like disease spreading unchecked. I’m waiting to see if someone will do a well funded study on how coyotes and wolves affect the spread of cwd in ungulates (if they do), or the new disease that is wiping rabbits and hares out like wildfire. Another important point to consider is the way coyotes respond to “predation”. They do indeed have far more pups when the population is under pressure than they do in a stable population. Anybody who has ever raised predators can tell you that growing pups (or kits, or kittens or whatever) eat a literal **** ton of meat. And the parents are consuming more in order to fuel all the hunting they need to do. If you believe coyotes kill all of the fawns that they can, what do you think they are feeding those pups? Saying “they just have more pups anyways, you can never kill them all, so kill as many as you can” mathematically makes zero sense. Better to say “I enjoy killing things in the off season and coyotes fit the bill.” I enjoy hunting everything, coyotes included. I live in the country and have a variety of livestock both domestic and exotic. I have had a few issues over the years with fawn predation and poultry predation etc and found it most effective to scare the **** out of them when I catch them at it. When I shoot them somebody else moves right in. I can hear multiple packs from my porch every night, and I’ve probably lost three free range chickens total in the last four or so years because they educate the pups to give me a wide berth. I don’t really care what people do, and as I said I enjoy hunting coyotes, but I make it a point to do so elsewhere so I can keep my well behaved locals alive and I do it in the winter when the pelts are prime. [/QUOTE]
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