grubbie":7q6k65xo said:Never had a coyote kill a calf here, but I am certain they would kill one if they were hungry enough. Getting rid of them is not hard. People everywhere are looking for places to call/hunt coyotes. I love doing it, take a few off our place every year. Keeps them thinned out a bit. I don't want them over populated, but I don't necessarily want them extinct either. They are fun to hunt. Antelope, however, could be extinct. I would be ok with that.
My favorite animal to hunt with a rifle. In fact I am going to hunt them in a couple of weeks. I would be happy to help you thin that herd someday.
BTW my buddy in Southern Colorado has them and has eliminated the need to fix fences by raising the bottom wires pretty high off the ground. He says it fixed two problems the antelope damage and the giant piles of tumbleweeds.
I asked him if it was a problem with the cows getting out. He said the momma cows never go under and the calves just come and go like they would anyway. For the record he only does this on his interior fences.