Need advice on live trapping coyote.

[browning10]

Help me on the know how. No snares or foot holds. To many animals on the ranch for foot traps. Live traps only.

[DrenalinJunkie]

All I can say is good luck! Never seen one fall for a live trap. And then what? How you gonna get it out?

Just shoot em and be done with it!

[locoengineer]

Pied piper traps makes a coyote live trap with a chicken box I think that's about the only way to live trap one

[friscopaint]

Good luck.

[Anvilheadtexas]

"Too many animals on ranch for foot traps".....what kind of animals are you referring to? knock down the size of your foothold to 1.75 and release any non-targeted animals that you may catch. I think other posters beat me to the quick answer....good luck on coyotes and box traps.

[Boomerang]

I've caught a few coyotes in large box traps but most are TOO smart. They won't go near it. It will require other means of control that are very effective. The foot traps can be pretty specific for coyotes or bobcats and hard to keep either out.

A snare can catch a deer if the wire they are digging under is too high off the ground. Usually coyotes will dig under a fence so a low wire will keep deer from using that crossing if it is small but BIG deer can go through little holes so that will catch them also.

[friscopaint]

I have a live trap with the chicken box, had better luck with a chicken in dog crate and leg traps around it on bobcats. I know a guy that traps alot and never gets coyotes in his live traps, just bobcats.

[TimH]

i'm no expert on the subject, but........ we use leg holds and conibear traps around our cattle, but i would be leery around goats or sheep.

[browning10]

The other animals I'm talking about are exotics of many kinds. I have a pasture that's about 600 acres. There's 5/6 coyotes living in there. There's no holes coming or going. They won't come to a call and are snare savvy. I hear them every night and all night.

[westtexducks]

The other animals I'm talking about are exotics of many kinds. I have a pasture that's about 600 acres. There's 5/6 coyotes living in there. There's no holes coming or going. They won't come to a call and are snare savvy. I hear them every night and all night.

Like I was telling my brother the other day when he was worried about trapping around our foals. Why would a horse go sticking its nose in a hole way up under a bush that smells like a dead rabbit. They have no interest in a dead animal so they will leave the trap set alone. Now I stick some sweet feed or alfalfa pellets under their and I might catch one, but a rabbit head has a 1 in million chance of attracting a herbivore.

[browning10]

Like I was telling my brother the other day when he was worried about trapping around our foals. Why would a horse go sticking its nose in a hole way up under a bush that smells like a dead rabbit. They have no interest in a dead animal so they will leave the trap set alone. Now I stick some sweet feed or alfalfa pellets under their and I might catch one, but a rabbit head has a 1 in million chance of attracting a herbivore.

Have you ever heard of bad luck. Your talking to someone who sees the 1 in a million chances all the time. Like, I set a snare on the opposite side of the fence, something pulled snare under the fence and knocked it down, then oryx walking down the fence got tangled up in it,broke his leg and I had to shoot it. Yes, I'm the bad luck catcher guy.

[TUCO]

Hey B10,

Instead of box traps, you might consider this;

Set up a pop up where you want to kill them, & where the wind will be in your favor.

Set up a bait pile and tie the bait down so they can’t haul it off.

Keep the site baited and let the coyotes get accustomed to the set.

Then after about a week go sit on the bait and kill as many as you can.

Move the set and repeat……..

Good Luck!

[chrischop04]

Just choot em

[30-30]

Put out a freshly killed hog upwind of a creek bottom and wait with a rifle. We kill a lot of coyotes this way.

[Dusty Britches]

I'm no help, but I have a neat story - several years ago we had a calf that died at birth. We put up a pop up blind and set the calf out. We waited and waited for a coyote, but my husband got tired of waiting so he walked out of the blind, around the barn that we were set up at, got in his truck and before he went 60 yards, a coyote came out of the brush. He kept glancing at the truck and the calf. As soon as I could I shot the yote. To this day, I swear that song dog was in the brush the whole time waiting for the truck to leave.