Predator management after hunting season?

you may be able to find a trapper that will do it for you. we have a guy that works the general area we're in after deer season. it has really seemed to help the turkey and rabbit population improve.
however, this isn't near as fun as blasting those nasty 'yotes yourself.

Trapping is fun. You should get into it.. and not those cage traps, you wont catch much. Use footholds, tons of fun. If you have ever ran trout lines or limb lines before and enjoyed it.. trapping predators is like that X100 with the adreneline rush

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I know the coyotes have been getting worse on our lease in the last few years.

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What's odd is that we were getting yotes almost everyday on camera before season started. We've only gotten 1 since

They are sharp, I know that much. I'm sure they feel human pressure just as much or more so than deer and turkeys.

We set out 50 coon traps for 3 separate weekends on our place and wiped out a little over 100 coons to take some pressure off them eating turkey eggs. Also converted our broad cast feeders into gravity so we are not feeding the coons anymore. Saw very few (10-15 coons) all year and 0 hogs! and 0 coyotes!

I had lots of luck with dog proof leg trap for coons. The coons will hammer down on those nest eggs. My thing is that if I take the coons out the equation then the surviving poults are now coyote bait so it's a double edge sword thats has to be delt with concurrently in my mind.

Right outside of ferriday. Rolling pastures with sloughs. coons were patrolling edges of sloughs and would hammer our corn when feeders would go off. I do believe that going to gravity feeders helped with the hogs! Our neighbor has hogs and we don't
knock on wood

Wow, I'd hate to know how many coons we have on our place. I may go to some gravity feeder and see how that goes. All good info, thanks.

Great video showing conversion from broadcast to gravity
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I'm fairly certain this will bring out the more tender hearted of us, but coyote control is really easy.

First, you need a few old couch cushions or mattress cushions. The yellow foam stuff.

Next, you need to save up old cooking oil from fish frys and what not.

Finally, a 5 gallon bucket.

Break the cushions up in hand size pieces. Place in bucket. Cover with oil and let soak for a day. Pour piles of cushions out where yotes frequent. Repeat as long as cushions keep getting eaten. Bye bye coyotes. It isn't pretty, and they don't die quickly, but life is rough man.