Great stuff, Sharon. Looks like a fantastic meal to go with some great thoughts about a great holiday! Glad to see you making good use of a problem bun!

From what I've learned (so far) is that there is no such thing as immunity to CWD in deer. But, there is a genetic trait discovered that indicates some deer take longer (more years in age) for physical systems or death to show/occur.....meaning there is more potential to spread the disease by that deer in it's lifetime.

I'm not well educated on CWD genetic research. What little I know about this came from speaking with Georgia's head deer biologist a few months ago.

Thanks for the bump, Mike

Ok, as time gets closer, we’re getting a few more questions from new attendees that I thought I’d address

First, the cost to attend Coyote Days is $20 per person, but 17 and under is FREE, so bringing a family isn’t going to cost YOU a lot to get in

You’ll get a wristband that signifiers that you paid entrance fee and is good for BOTH days

Trust me, the demos are worth $1000’s, and the $20 is put towards us paying for the 101 things it takes to put this event on.

The Saturday Night Banquet is seperate, and it is $25/ticket, and that is for man, women, child, whatever

We buy steak loins, and they are sliced the night before, and we judge it on how many tickets are sold, give or take of course.

We encourage everyone to take in and enjoy the banquet, but it’s not required by any means!

The banquet is held Saturday evening in the main fairgrounds building, which is now air conditioned and has a good sound system.

We’ll have a guest speaker or two, bucket raffle (20 items) and also draw for the other items we sell raffle tickets for at the Coyote Days desk at entrance of the building we use at south end of fairgrounds

ALL the items raffled will be won by Coyote Days attendees, as that is the only place the tickets will be sold

Supper includes grilled steaks, salad, baked potatoes, etc

After supper will be the fur fashion show, with many garments and fur accessories being modeled. And again, if you have a fur garment you or your lady friend would like to bring and wear in the fur show, by all means, bring it!

After that, we’ll have the auction

Like last year, we’ll have 2 groups of items for the auction

One group will be items designated for the Endowment Fund (Scholarship), and the other group will be items to be auctioned with proceeds going towards helping us offset some of the event’s cost (grounds, motel rooms for demo presenters, etc)

We don’t solicit items for the auction, but if you’d like to bring something to donate to the auction, again feel free to to, and it’ll be appreciated. I’d appreciate it if you make us aware of who donated it, so we can give credit, and also designate if for endowment fund or general auction

So, that addresses the questions that we’ve received lately I think.

Coyote Days is based around the 20 top quality demos, 10 per day, and the Friday night roundtable discussion.

Add on the Camp Cattrax fish fry on Friday night, and some great company for the weekend, and I can’t think of a better place to get ready for this fall, or just to catch up with friends and like minded people

Coyote Days 2026

Aug 14-15

Lusk, WY

Thanks, John

If buying new...... consider Filson. They support trapping and ran a pro-trapping commercial last year!

I started drying and then grinding my egg shells then put in what, 1/8 cup in the hole when bedding the plants(I start my green beans in trays first). Ground egg shells are Huge for producing lots of blossoms.

Good for you! As long as we can draw a breath, it's never too late to make things right or give someone praise. I hope you find this person?

As far as keeping the. Alive they're still working , haven't had one die in probably a year or so. Egg production not so much as soon as it hits about 85° in the tractors they just completely stop laying . Seems to be a bit hotter and humid in on the ground so wanted to see if getting them up would help. That and I really wanna be able to collect their poop a lil easier for compost

Very nice Pete!

Blind Robins for the win.

Funny that you mention that, she bought a new Land Cruiser last weekend. Oh well you can’t take the money with you in your coffin.

Not shooting any for years ... no need to, the richer neighbors put on a heck of an aerial display every year. Christine enjoys the show from our balcony, I can take it or leave it.

Chicken owners actually play with thier chickens? LOL

Excellent, LOL