Do you believe this

[Playa]

I call BS. There is an estimated whitetail deer population of 5.3 Million. If that stat is accurate less than 300,000 coyotes would completely wipe out the entire Texas whitetail population. And while I can’t find it, I’m pretty confident there are more than 300k coyotes in Texas.

Additionally this research by Texas Tech suggests whitetail deer are pretty low on the menu list of coyotes .

“ The stomach contents of 168 coyotes collected in Arkansas contained the following items (listed as percent occurrence): poultry, 34; persimmons, 23; insects, 11; rodents, 9; songbirds, 8; cattle, 7; rabbits, 7; deer, 5; woodchucks, 4; goats, 4; and watermelons, 4.”

https://www.depts.ttu.edu/nsrl/mammals-of-texas-online-edition/Accounts_Carnivora/Canis_latrans.php

[PondPopper]

Yes.. That number is very realistic and probably on the low end in some cases.. Cameras have been put on den entrances to study this very subject.. Data on this has been available for a while..

[Sippy]

Yes.. That number is very realistic and probably on the low end in some cases.. Cameras have been put on den entrances to study this very subject.. Data on this has been available for a while..

Can you post it?

[Tbar]

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[AntlerCollector]

Yes.. That number is very realistic and probably on the low end in some cases.. Cameras have been put on den entrances to study this very subject.. Data on this has been available for a while..

Link to available data?

[PYBUCK]

I call BS on that one. Maybe 2 or 3 but not 19.

[AntlerCollector]

Studies have confirmed that coyotes affect whitetail deer populations. The researchers of a northern Alabama study included Dr. Karl Miller[1] of the University of Georgia, Cory Van-Gilder[2], graduate of the University of Georgia, and Dr. Grant Woods[3], graduate of Missouri State University, University of Georgia, and Clemson University. The study focused on 2,000 acres where 22 coyotes and 10 bobcats were removed during fawning season. The result was a doubled fawn population.

Later, Miller went on to conduct a second study in Southwest Georgia on 2 sections of land. One section of 11,000 acres, 23 coyotes and 3 bobcats were trapped and on another 7,000 acres no trapping was done. The results were staggering. In the trapped area, 2 out of every 3 does had fawns. In contrast, in the un-trapped area only 1 out of 28 does had fawns.


Source: https://stacylynharris.com/do-coyote...r-populations/

[RascalArms]

I have no idea…but sure seems high to me. I wouldn’t think places where the yote population is high would have ANY deer with those kind of numbers.

[AntlerCollector]

According to researchers, fawn mortality in excess of 50 percent within 90 days postpartum is reportedly common among white-tailed deer in semiarid areas of Texas and Oklahoma. Coyotes affect deer in this semi-arid region on very high levels. In these studies, nearly all mortality occurred 30 days postpartum, and more than 50 percent of the losses were caused by coyotes.


Source: https://www.deeranddeerhunting.com/c...fawning-season

[cva34]

Hogs do their share when fawns are in that (stay put no matter what)stage...first week or so of life...

[Voodoo]

How? Will it harm other animals?

Shouldn’t harm any other animal except K-9’s, bear I don’t know, if put out with a meat product.

[Hills of Texas]

Coyotes will run over twenty miles per night if need be in search of food. During the spring and summer deer fawns are the acorns of the coyote world. Not all females will breed. Fawn rate survival is around 20 percent in the hill country. There are way more deer than coyotes in the hill country. Hunters kill somewhere around 25k deer a year in our area of the state. No telling how many are hit by cars. Fawn pop up once a year and just like acorns, they are the food preferred at the time.

[AntlerCollector]

Shouldn’t harm any other animal except K-9’s, bear I don’t know, if put out with a meat product.

Thanks

[SCHC]

Those numbers seem very high, IMO.

We have low recruitment and it’s from predation, no doubt. From what I have seen, we lose 80% of the fawn crop. Have an abundance of yotes and a good number of bobcats. Hard to control them with a rifle. Also our place is 5 strand barbed wire so snares are useless. Going to try steel traps but I know there’s a learning curve. About 15 years ago, mange was rampant and knocked them back hard. Wish it would reappear again.

[Voodoo]

Well seems like fawn dropping season would be the best time to kill hogs to feed the yotes and save the deer