Coyotes moving up to the lambs

[Squirrelhunter91]

My dad's friend who owns a farm owns livestock. He has cows and sheep. The cows don't start calving until around September, but the sheep just gave birth to about a dozen or so lambs. He told us that every night, the coyotes are down around the pen trying to get at the baby lambs. Although the coyote season is closed here in NY, because he is a farmer and owns livestock, anyone who has permission to hunt his land may take coyotes year round on his land. If I go upstate to our place this weekend, I will be sure to stop by there and possibly set up in his barn with the .22mag and see if I could whack something over the night or maybe I'll just set the foxpro up and see if I can call em in the traditional way.

[ODH]

Re: Coyotes moving up to the lambs

if the yotes are normally coming in at night, I'd say try setting up on the second level of the barn if the barn has an upstairs, then you should get a clear shot. If I were you, I wouldn't use a call yet, that way they will come up to the fence or what they were doing, and poooooow! good luck and have fun

[Gus]

Re: Coyotes moving up to the lambs

I just got a new spot to call also that has sheep on it and the yotes are killing both grown sheep and the lambs. Went and looked at the property last weekend, going to break out the spotlights and 22-250 Saturday night. Good luck, maybe next week I will have some more yote pics and also a turkey for out team.

[wtnhunt]

Re: Coyotes moving up to the lambs

Getting close to fawning and calving time here, saw a yote in my back field yesterday afternoon when I was going for a walk about an hour and a half before dark. Had my 12 gauge loaded with turkey loads and it was about 80 yards out and running away in a hurry when I spotted it, never had a chance for a shot. Sure wish I was better at trying to call them in.