females and carrying pups?
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Re: females and carrying pups?
sweet pic Jamie!!
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Thats the best coyote to kill in my opinon. A female with a suitcase is truly a trophy in control work. Nice work 

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Re: females and carrying pups?
Thanks for posting those jamie!!!! thats some good info for anybody that is serious about coyote hunting. They are pretty small yet. How long before you think she would be dropping the pups??
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Re: females and carrying pups?
Coyotehunter: How many pups did you count? And how old was the female?
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Re: females and carrying pups?
she was showing 5 and I would have guessed her at 2-3 years old.
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Re: females and carrying pups?
I wanted to do a little research before posting this picture. I took this den about a week ago. I wasn't able to find in any of my literture a den or "double den" of this size. I also asked some guys that have been doing this for a long time and they hadn't seen one of this magnitude.
We seen the female run into the den and i was able to get her shot. I retrieved 11 juveniles from the den that were 2-3 days old and started to examine the female to make sure that 11 was all she had only to find out that she was a day or two away from giving birth to 10! In two to three days that single den would have had 21 hungry juveniles in it!

From what i can find out this is the largest double den anyone that i have talked to so far has ever witnessed or heard about.
The ratio in juveniles was 12 males to 9 females.
Needless to say the sheep rancher was happy
No wonder why we can't get ahead
We seen the female run into the den and i was able to get her shot. I retrieved 11 juveniles from the den that were 2-3 days old and started to examine the female to make sure that 11 was all she had only to find out that she was a day or two away from giving birth to 10! In two to three days that single den would have had 21 hungry juveniles in it!

From what i can find out this is the largest double den anyone that i have talked to so far has ever witnessed or heard about.
The ratio in juveniles was 12 males to 9 females.
Needless to say the sheep rancher was happy
No wonder why we can't get ahead
Money is a great servant but a terrible master!!
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Re: females and carrying pups?
Wow,stunned me!
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That is just amazing! Nice Pic and Post Brad
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Re: females and carrying pups?
Holy Sh!t that is one hell of a pile!!
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Re: females and carrying pups?
kind of explains why they fill in voids so fast. In an uncontroled area a guy can see why there is never a shortage of coyotes to hunt.
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