Controlled studies have show that Coyote predation takes up to 70% of the fawn crop each year. I have seen trail pics of Bobtail carrying day old fawns by their throat .
We have limited acreage and I consider the deer herd although wild to be part of my farm crop. Jut like the garden I fertilize and harvest I grow forage for deer which we harvest. We harvest only two a year making sure to leave seed for next year.
Its a sustaining environment for us and the deer. We eliminate the predators just like other predators do in the wild to each other.
At the farm it really irritates me to see a doe and new fawn walk past my game camera then 45 minutes later 3 coyotes pass the camera going the same direction......nose to the ground.
Think I am going to see if the goberment trappers still use the M44 in my area.
