Thread: New from New Mexico

"Eat lamb, a million coyotes can't be wrong"

It has nothing to say about the quality of lamb for the table, but the love coyotes have for them and the problems coyotes cause for those raising sheep, even cattle as coyotes will attack and kill calves even knowing that they are most vulnerable while they are being birthed as the cow has no defenses then. In some areas of the west they still employ aerial gunners to try and lower the coyote numbers. Coyotes have moved into some our cities and kill pet cats and dogs. Where I used to live in Washington state coyotes would lie in wait in the sand dunes along the beach and run out and grab pets as the people walked them. They are very adaptable and can live on just about anything, when I would hunt around apple orchards, you would find scat with apple peels and around truck farms bright orange scat full of carrot, they love grapes and when times are hard eat Russian olives. Down on the desert cactus and mesquite beans but most of all they like meat in just about any form.

Coyotes have beautiful fur and I hunt them for the fur during the winter. They are also pretty much the symbol of the western US, they is nothing like sitting in your camp at night hearing coyotes howl across the land scape. Each family will howl back and forth to each other to keep tract of each other, they will howl and bark to warn other coyotes out of their territory and sometimes I think the howl just to hear themselves howl, kind of like us singing in the shower.

They say when the world come to an end there will only be coyote and cockroaches left until the coyotes eat all the cockroaches.