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<blockquote data-quote="Warren Allison" data-source="post: 1828784" data-attributes="member: 40587"><p>You are probably right about the dept of wildlife's reasoning, but hunting them won't make them leave an area. I bet that first year in 76, we got 50 out of the same fields, hunting every week or so. They gonna stay where they have food. They will stay in the most inaccessible swamps and thickets during the day, and do their crop-raiding at night. That's why you have to use dogs to hunt them in daylight. My advice, and it just my opinion is you should kill every one you can if they start coming around your place. </p><p></p><p>I was a Fish and Wildlife Biology major in college, and took part in a few studies or projects. This was back when coyotes first appeared in north Ga. Farmers claimed a lot of calf losses were due to coyotes, when actually they were hog kills. Same with fawn kills. Coyotes mostly fed on the remnants of those kills. And coyotes. as well as foxes, bobcats and hawks were blamed for diminishing quail, rabbit and turkey populations. Which common sense would tell you is BS, because they had all lived here for centuries before America was discovered. Loss of habitat is the number one cause of diminishing game, but hogs are the number 1 predator of young quail and turkey, and their eggs, and of young rabbits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Warren Allison, post: 1828784, member: 40587"] You are probably right about the dept of wildlife's reasoning, but hunting them won't make them leave an area. I bet that first year in 76, we got 50 out of the same fields, hunting every week or so. They gonna stay where they have food. They will stay in the most inaccessible swamps and thickets during the day, and do their crop-raiding at night. That's why you have to use dogs to hunt them in daylight. My advice, and it just my opinion is you should kill every one you can if they start coming around your place. I was a Fish and Wildlife Biology major in college, and took part in a few studies or projects. This was back when coyotes first appeared in north Ga. Farmers claimed a lot of calf losses were due to coyotes, when actually they were hog kills. Same with fawn kills. Coyotes mostly fed on the remnants of those kills. And coyotes. as well as foxes, bobcats and hawks were blamed for diminishing quail, rabbit and turkey populations. Which common sense would tell you is BS, because they had all lived here for centuries before America was discovered. Loss of habitat is the number one cause of diminishing game, but hogs are the number 1 predator of young quail and turkey, and their eggs, and of young rabbits. [/QUOTE]
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