coyotes

[daniel.carver]

Hi to all :wave:
I have a missing heiffer calf. I was at the hospital w/the wife, so i did not see this. My daughter told me that she seen a coyote dragging something, she went out on the four wheeler & the coyote dropped what it had & ran off. She said that it was a hind quarter w/alot of meat missing. she threw this in a holler where I throw brush. (no way to actually see it). My question is- this calf was proabably 300 lbs. Is it possible for coyetes to take a calf this big down? We have lots of coyotes, & I mostly see them catching field mice, rabbits & so on. I've never thought that they would be a threat. Am I full of crap?
Thanks Dan

 

[Isomade]

I ain't ever seen it. The calf would have to be sick, hurt or dead from my experience.

 

[daniel.carver]

Thanks Isomade, I've been away for three weeks at the hospital, just wasn't here to deal w/ it. Thanks again for the reply.
Dan

 

[Caustic Burno]

Coyote was cleaning up most likely, if it was killed look to dogs first. They will kill for pleasure and leave the kill.
Coyotes are cowards and get blamed for a lot they do not do. Hard to believe Fido and Rover are the biggest problem most face from a predator. Now they are opportunist if they find one sick or cripple and they can take it without danger they will. They are not much of a fighter unless cornered but so is a mouse.

 

[Ryder]

Hope your wife is doing well.
Hope you are doing well. That hospital duty can tire you out real fast.

 

[MF135]

Hi to all :wave:
I have a missing heiffer calf. I was at the hospital w/the wife, so i did not see this. My daughter told me that she seen a coyote dragging something, she went out on the four wheeler & the coyote dropped what it had & ran off. She said that it was a hind quarter w/alot of meat missing. she threw this in a holler where I throw brush. (no way to actually see it). My question is- this calf was proabably 300 lbs. Is it possible for coyetes to take a calf this big down? We have lots of coyotes, & I mostly see them catching field mice, rabbits & so on. I've never thought that they would be a threat. Am I full of crap?
Thanks Dan

Look her in the eyes and ask her what really happened to the calf.

 

[3waycross]

Hi to all :wave:
I have a missing heiffer calf. I was at the hospital w/the wife, so i did not see this. My daughter told me that she seen a coyote dragging something, she went out on the four wheeler & the coyote dropped what it had & ran off. She said that it was a hind quarter w/alot of meat missing. she threw this in a holler where I throw brush. (no way to actually see it). My question is- this calf was proabably 300 lbs. Is it possible for coyetes to take a calf this big down? We have lots of coyotes, & I mostly see them catching field mice, rabbits & so on. I've never thought that they would be a threat. Am I full of crap?
Thanks Dan

Look her in the eyes and ask her what really happened to the calf.

Hope you didn't hurt yourself jumpinf to THAT conclusion.

 

[MF135]

Hi to all :wave:
I have a missing heiffer calf. I was at the hospital w/the wife, so i did not see this. My daughter told me that she seen a coyote dragging something, she went out on the four wheeler & the coyote dropped what it had & ran off. She said that it was a hind quarter w/alot of meat missing. she threw this in a holler where I throw brush. (no way to actually see it). My question is- this calf was proabably 300 lbs. Is it possible for coyetes to take a calf this big down? We have lots of coyotes, & I mostly see them catching field mice, rabbits & so on. I've never thought that they would be a threat. Am I full of crap?
Thanks Dan

Look her in the eyes and ask her what really happened to the calf.

Hope you didn't hurt yourself jumpinf to THAT conclusion.

No I stretched first. I sensed his doubt by his word choice. "Missing" calf. Claims of Coyotes eating in daytime. "SHE" not only picked up the bloody hind quarter, but moved it- to a place where it can't be seen now. Why would someone uses the word "missing", if they believed it was found and then discarded in the ditch? JMO

 

[msscamp]

Hi to all :wave:
I have a missing heiffer calf. I was at the hospital w/the wife, so i did not see this. My daughter told me that she seen a coyote dragging something, she went out on the four wheeler & the coyote dropped what it had & ran off. She said that it was a hind quarter w/alot of meat missing. she threw this in a holler where I throw brush. (no way to actually see it). My question is- this calf was proabably 300 lbs. Is it possible for coyetes to take a calf this big down? We have lots of coyotes, & I mostly see them catching field mice, rabbits & so on. I've never thought that they would be a threat. Am I full of crap?
Thanks Dan

No, coyotes generally will not take down a 300 lb calf. They are a very real threat to newborns and calves up to about a week old, though. I'm inclined to think that this calf died or was possibly killed by something else and the coyotes simply took advantage of the kill/death.

 

[spinandslide]

agree with others..coyotes are cowardly scavengers..more then likely dogs got the calf or the calf died and the 'yotes were doing what they do,,cleaning it up.

As CB said, I think 'yotes get blamed alot for the doin's of dogs.

 

[kerley]

I've never caught a coyote chasing my cattle, only the neighbors dog.

 

[1wlimo]

I had an 250# fall calf eaten one night here mid winter by coyote's, it was Ok mid afternoon, but it was a snow storm that night. They were atacking deer in the hay yard in daylight on and off all winter.

Any day I was carrying never saw or heard one of them

 

[hillrancher]

When coyotes pack up and do start killing there is one killer in the pack if you can get it the rest will usually not kill. I find them to be like Msscamp stated most of the time.

 

[Waldershrek]

Time to start setting some traps just in case. There used to be a big problem in my area with domesticated dogs chasing and injuring/killing dairy cows.......farmers with rifles solved that problem.