Coyotes digging peat moss
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11/21/18 06:29 PM
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tanman
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Anyone else have issues with coyotes digging out traps in peat moss? I'm.pretty confident they can't smell my traps and it's happened enough times I don't think it's a bedding issue, but I have had all of my traps dug out this week. I didn't cover the peat moss with dirt or snow and I'm wondering if that's why?... Any ideas?
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Re: Coyotes digging peat moss
[Re: tanman]
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11/21/18 06:50 PM
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bleeohio
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Every once in a while using just peat I'll get some but when I started pinning my traps down with nails so they don't move, I've not had many issues.
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Re: Coyotes digging peat moss
[Re: tanman]
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11/22/18 10:31 AM
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I have never used peat without something covering it. I love using snow. We don't get a lot of it. A lot of times the digging is coons and rats. Digger B's always getting caught.........
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Re: Coyotes digging peat moss
[Re: tanman]
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11/22/18 11:49 AM
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The Beav
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How do you know It's a female coyote that's digging up your traps?
Traps are very hard to bed solid In peat. Even If you cover the peat with dirt from the site that trap still Isn't solid In the bed. The nails are the way to go. Or some major guiding so the first step Is the last one.
and sometimes I have found that peat has a strange odor and that may have something to do with the digging.
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Re: Coyotes digging peat moss
[Re: tanman]
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11/22/18 12:56 PM
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I use peat moss all the time and if there is a odor in the peat I seen them dig or if the trap is not solid enough they will dig. I use some dry dirt I have and put it over the peat moss after i done with bed the trap and not leave the peat show much.Or what I do also is take some grass on the site, spread it over the peat moss. It all works for me.I have seen also that deer like to get into the set also.
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Re: Coyotes digging peat moss
[Re: The Beav]
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11/22/18 05:28 PM
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How do you know It's a female coyote that's digging up your traps?
Traps are very hard to bed solid In peat. Even If you cover the peat with dirt from the site that trap still Isn't solid In the bed. The nails are the way to go. Or some major guiding so the first step Is the last one.
and sometimes I have found that peat has a strange odor and that may have something to do with the digging. I caught a female once.
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Re: Coyotes digging peat moss
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11/22/18 08:46 PM
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Last year this one location I got nine in snares, the ninth one chewed the 1x19 off, I saw her tracks looked like small young female coyote, I snared her this fall 100 yds from where she cut wire last year, extremely old, small female , I was close
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