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Posted by booger (Member # 3602) on February 13, 2011, 04:25 PM:
This was the last weekend of the Kansas Furbearer season, so I tried to call up the bobcat that gave me the slip on New Year's day, but didn't have any luck.
I was on my best friend's farm, and after my set I buzzed up to his house and had a cup of coffee before he got after the chores.
If you didn't know, our part of Kansas got anywhere from 12-15" of snow and wind on Tuesday, then the bottom fell out of the thermometer later in the week. While we didn't get the cold Geordie got, it was still around 13 or 14 below here.
My friend is calving about 40 cows, and had about 7 little ones right during the heart of the snow and cold.
They have a metal oil tank that is split in half set up in such a way that only the calves can get in and get warm that they make sure is full of dry straw.
At any rate, he was checking the new arrivals Thursday morning, and was looking at the others in their shelter, when he noticed a fur ball curled up in the corner of the tank not 10 feet from 5 or so day old calves. I guess he startled it and it was a very much alive, well furred coyote, that just absolutely broke the sound barrier getting out of the way!
By the time he got back to the truck with his rifle, the coyote was long gone...however, he said when he checked the cows at 4 this morning, he saw the darn thing go tearing out of the tank again--way too dark and no gun this morning.
Interesting behaviour--he said all the calves were accounted for and he said the coyote looked healthy, no mange from what he saw.
However, he is going to try to shoot the darn thing when he can...kind of wild!
[ February 13, 2011, 04:27 PM: Message edited by: booger ]
Posted by 4949shooter (Member # 3530) on February 13, 2011, 05:19 PM:
Trying to keep warm? I am surprised it didn't make a meal out of the new arrivals...
Posted by TA17Rem (Member # 794) on February 13, 2011, 05:29 PM:
Most likely a young coyote that has'nt figured out what to do with his new room mates yet.. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by Cdog911 (Member # 7) on February 13, 2011, 05:29 PM:
Hell, Tim, it isn't unusual for coyotes to burrow into trench silos to exploit the heat being generated by the fermenting feed. One time, I went to meet up with a guy to hunt and he was just filling his feed wagon with the payloader. He grabbed a bucketload of silage out and, as he was backing up, this coyote wriggled out of the top of it and fell to the ground. LOL Last year, Kevin and I kept seeing this one coyote bugging out of this old outbuilding near the Solomon River. On about the third trip out there, we snuck in and sure 'nuff, he came to the door and I whacked him from about 230 yards. They aren't stupid.
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