I have an area that is littered with beds made under cedar trees. I never looked for a den, but there are two old barns that have been unoccupied for a very long time. I am willing to bet that at least one pair of coyotes are denning in that structure. I may be wrong and this may be just a bedding or gathering area for the local coyote population.

I have seen coyotes have litters with no den holes, just pups under big bushes, shrubs or tree roots.

I don't think they den in the ground here in East Texas. Never seen any but I suspect up under blow downs and in big brush piles is where they make their dens

yeah, never found a real "den". I did find 9 pups in the base of a hollowed out stump. eyes weren't even open yet. only ones ive found though

I have a question for you guys. If you have good activity in early season, but tend to see your coyote levels go down for the rest of the year (I think it's because we plow under the corn and the coyotes follow the deer and turkey and other small game to the corn stubble field areas) do you tend to see coyotes coming back into the area during breeding season and spring?

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LT THAT IS POPULATION CONTROL!

Looks like veal to me..HAHAHAHA

Get the pot on we eatin hot dogs tonight!

Just thread em on a stick and eat them whole!

Anybody finding any dens this spring ?

i have found 7 that are def used buy coyote as tracks and carnage outside has proved to me. And i stopped counting fox dens. I due believe this will be my best season to date on both coyote and fox.

Lt grey you should no better than to put pictures like that it does nothing to help us with the antis trying to stop trapping
On both sides of the border

Brother found 7 in a log Tuesday while hunting mushrooms. He said they all came right out of the log to him like they were puppies wanting to play. He said he pushed one with his boot over toward the log and it fell over and died. He left them there.

The post was about nuisance trapping coyotes. Not fur trapping. They are two totally different worlds and that is part of the job. The coyote wars thread is just that, war on coyotes and everyone knows, war is he!!.

Ya LT! You should know better!! Hey, Semper, hows bout throwin a brother a beer out of the cooler?

That might taste a bit skunky Sulldog!! lmao Those look like pretty nice yotes for these parts!

This is a interesting thread LT. Tis the season for coyote control. I really like reading on coyote control during the warm months. It seems that a lot of trappers have their favorites when it comes to coyote trapping, lure, set technique, ect, ect. I'm headed into a fairly remote area, will be trapping out of a tent camp. The objective is to kill as many coyotes as possible before they move cow calf pairs into the area in about 3 weeks. I will post pics on here when I get home. I'm not a fan of sweet type lures and yes I know they work at times but feel meat and gland based is still king whether they are hungry or not. One of my favorite summer lures is the tongue and brains of a sheep ground and aged for a week in hot weather, then I add 2 teaspoons of zinc valerate powder and 4 ounces of good coyote urine. If it gets real hot out I will mix in a small amount of melted lanoline. You all have a good one.