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Ratio of good vs bad coyotes #6424418
01/10/19 01:40 PM
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Good morning to all,
Just wondering what your percentages are on coyotes this year? I am running a few snares and it has been slow going with the weather here for sure, and to make it worse I’m running at 60% of them have mange. Now this is a extremely small sampling because I have only caught 5, but three have been bad. The bad ones were all on the same farm, and taken off bait piles I set. Any correlation?
Frustrating when I finally get a snare on them and then they are no good!

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6424443
01/10/19 01:53 PM
01/10/19 01:53 PM
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Blue Creek, Ohio
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Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6424445
01/10/19 01:58 PM
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I only caught one so far, and she had lice BAD! Nothing but fuzz on both sides. So for me, 100% worthless coyotes.


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Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6424448
01/10/19 02:08 PM
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Nebraska
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Originally Posted by didit
Good morning to all,
Just wondering what your percentages are on coyotes this year? I am running a few snares and it has been slow going with the weather here for sure, and to make it worse I’m running at 60% of them have mange. Now this is a extremely small sampling because I have only caught 5, but three have been bad. The bad ones were all on the same farm, and taken off bait piles I set. Any correlation?
Frustrating when I finally get a snare on them and then they are no good!


When trapping or snaring bait piles(especially dead cattle pits that have been there awhile) expect to take a share of mangy coyotes. That's the easiest food source for mangy coyotes when they aren't physically fit to hunt. It's also a contamination source for the mite to be spread to other coyotes.

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Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6424462
01/10/19 02:26 PM
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Sandhills Nebraska
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From what I hear, lotta mange in these parts too.


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Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6424466
01/10/19 02:28 PM
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10 percent

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6424493
01/10/19 03:08 PM
01/10/19 03:08 PM
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I trap yotes every January for 10 days. I’ll take 45-60 depending on weather. The last few years I’ve had 50% mange. Drives me crazy!

This year I started in the middle of December and had only 2 out of the first 20 bad. After six days of trapping it rained 2” and froze up so I switched to snares. Every single yote I’ve snared has had mange. Doesn’t matter if they are on the creek or up in open country. Mange of various degrees on all of them. It’s got me scratching my head. Only thing I can figure is that I’m not a Snare Man; only a guy that occasionally snares. Maybe I’m snaring the mange ones because they are not 100% there in the head, and the healthy ones are avoiding my snare sets. I really have no idea, but it’s drying up enough to get some jakes out so I’ll see what percentage I get next week.


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Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6424561
01/10/19 04:46 PM
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Varys year to year, I’ve had as high as 50% and this year I’m at 7% mangy out of 43 coyotes.

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6424666
01/10/19 06:43 PM
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10% usually no good here

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425037
01/11/19 01:28 AM
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50% for me last two years.

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425375
01/11/19 11:43 AM
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Colorado
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30% this year for me on 22 coys. Warm weather has slowed my catch rate down this year, luckily in my area the mange has been concentrated in a couple of spots vs seeing it in all areas.

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425418
01/11/19 12:41 PM
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Ive skinned 12 out of 21....

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425444
01/11/19 01:11 PM
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Wyoming, Illinois
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I’ve got good fur here for the most part... 30 miles south of me mange is bad.


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Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425454
01/11/19 01:25 PM
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Skint 89 of 97 caught just over the border is Ks. Im tired of coyotes.


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Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425471
01/11/19 01:52 PM
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A few years ago mange was almost 60%, this year less that10%, and they all came from a couple small areas. Keep pushing on, every mangy one you catch is taken out of the pool and will help bring it back under control.


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Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425569
01/11/19 03:44 PM
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Does anyone know if they can survive mange, or will it kill them eventually? If you release the ones that just have a touch of it, what's their chances?

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425577
01/11/19 03:49 PM
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I just started trapping 2 seasons ago and have caught 33 and haven't had a mangy one, had one with lice. But we sure have every color a coyote can be, very few are pretty

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425663
01/11/19 06:07 PM
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25% so far

Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: Tactical.20] #6425712
01/11/19 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Tactical.20
10% usually no good here


2X 10% is way better then 25% some years.


Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!

Jerry Herbst
Re: Ratio of good vs bad coyotes [Re: didit] #6425742
01/11/19 07:34 PM
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Last year in SD, I pitched a third. Got home, and fifty% were bad. No mange, just lice. This year, in SD, about ten%, and I've been laid up and couldn't trap here at home. Only have caught a few, but they have all been good. The way the weather has been this year, it was a good year to have the issues I had!

Larry, they can survive the mange. Not alot will, but there are always survivors in the coyote world. If any of you have caught yotes with black scars on their feet, legs and ears, or any combination of the three, he is a survivor! I have caught them while they were healing up from it too. I don't know how they do it, but they are tough! Last three critters on this rock will be coyotes, crows and cockroaches!


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