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<blockquote data-quote="DSheetz" data-source="post: 2219378" data-attributes="member: 91783"><p>We don't quite have the same number per sq mile of coyote that they have In Niabrara county they have more black hills type country then we do and a different food base . Both counties are large Converse county is 4265 sq. miles and Niabrara county is 2628 sq. miles . Some of our county does have similar numbers and if I weren't killing them and not letting them den in my work area there may be similar numbers as Niabrara county in my area . The coyote numbers in a given area is governed by the food base , more food more coyote less food fewer coyote . I kept records of the number of pups per den and correlated it with the average number of rabbits , antelope fawns , deer fawns and mice , in given years . Years with larger numbers of rabbit , fawns ect. we would have litters of pups of 8-13 . In years when we didn't have numbers of prey we would have litters of 5-8 pups and even some down to 3 pups at times . When you do control of the dens you take out the numbers of pups early on and you aren't concerned with the fur . The goal is to save livestock not skin coyote for sale . Studies done in Texas and California in the 60's and 70's say that to stay at even numbers of coyote you have to kill 70% of the years pups so that was the way I did control as most times the stock killers had pups to feed and that is why they were killing lambs ect. in the first place . I didn't have to worry about not having coyote to kill as they are in constant motion you kill a pair and new ones come in from other areas to fill the void you made . It may be fall before they fill in the void and for me that was a good thing . My whole goal was to have an increase in lambs docked and then shipped . On some ranches I started working they were shipping around 70-75 % lamb crop when I started . You figure that you will have around 120% lambs born so if you are shipping 75% the number of lambs vers. the number of ewes you are being hit hard some where around 40-45 % loss of lambs . That's a lot of money and hard to stay in business that way . I got paid per coyote it didn't make any difference what it's age was plus at the end of the year a bonus based on the number of lambs shipped . I'm not sure how many coyote are killed each year in Converse County but it's a bunch . I do know that the plane took over 600 in March alone . I never really paid much attention to how many coyote others took as I'm not very competitive and didn't do the calling contest thing . Mostly if the producer was happy with the results I gave then I felt good about it . For me it was about self satisfaction in a job well done by me .</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DSheetz, post: 2219378, member: 91783"] We don't quite have the same number per sq mile of coyote that they have In Niabrara county they have more black hills type country then we do and a different food base . Both counties are large Converse county is 4265 sq. miles and Niabrara county is 2628 sq. miles . Some of our county does have similar numbers and if I weren't killing them and not letting them den in my work area there may be similar numbers as Niabrara county in my area . The coyote numbers in a given area is governed by the food base , more food more coyote less food fewer coyote . I kept records of the number of pups per den and correlated it with the average number of rabbits , antelope fawns , deer fawns and mice , in given years . Years with larger numbers of rabbit , fawns ect. we would have litters of pups of 8-13 . In years when we didn't have numbers of prey we would have litters of 5-8 pups and even some down to 3 pups at times . When you do control of the dens you take out the numbers of pups early on and you aren't concerned with the fur . The goal is to save livestock not skin coyote for sale . Studies done in Texas and California in the 60's and 70's say that to stay at even numbers of coyote you have to kill 70% of the years pups so that was the way I did control as most times the stock killers had pups to feed and that is why they were killing lambs ect. in the first place . I didn't have to worry about not having coyote to kill as they are in constant motion you kill a pair and new ones come in from other areas to fill the void you made . It may be fall before they fill in the void and for me that was a good thing . My whole goal was to have an increase in lambs docked and then shipped . On some ranches I started working they were shipping around 70-75 % lamb crop when I started . You figure that you will have around 120% lambs born so if you are shipping 75% the number of lambs vers. the number of ewes you are being hit hard some where around 40-45 % loss of lambs . That's a lot of money and hard to stay in business that way . I got paid per coyote it didn't make any difference what it's age was plus at the end of the year a bonus based on the number of lambs shipped . I'm not sure how many coyote are killed each year in Converse County but it's a bunch . I do know that the plane took over 600 in March alone . I never really paid much attention to how many coyote others took as I'm not very competitive and didn't do the calling contest thing . Mostly if the producer was happy with the results I gave then I felt good about it . For me it was about self satisfaction in a job well done by me . [/QUOTE]
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