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newfie11

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2. I don't know about an entire life's work ruined

Reply to niyad (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 2, 2013, 05:39 AM

Dec 2013

But it can sure wreck your future income when coyotes are dragging off baby calves the minute their born. Before the cow can get to her feet.
Our neighbor lost 6 calves that way and that was half his expected calf crop.

Prairie dogs can and do destroy grassland. They multiply very quickly and leave a bare stinky pasture that can't support anything.

Think of having rats in your house and letting them multiply indefinitely. Prairie dogs multiply as quickly.

The way coyotes and prairie dogs are kept under control in SD and NE is poison.
That's not great either. A quick shot is more humane.

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umm, jhonathan, how many ranchers have had their "entire life's work" ruined by coyotes? and niyad Dec 2013 #1

I don't know about an entire life's work ruined newfie11 Dec 2013 #2