I recently got a job on a farm in southern new jersey and yesterday i was outback by one of the fields when all of a sudden the guinea hens started going nuts and flying and when i looked up there was a coyote running down the field after them. It was about 1 in the afternoon and i thought it was really strange for a coyote to be out in the wide open at that time. So now my boss wants me to thin out the pack so i need some help figuring it all out because im pretty new to predator hunting. Thanks in advance.


1.Do coyotes have a den only when they are having pups or do they live in them all year long?

2.Is there a certain place i should start looking for their den such as swamps, low points, high points, ect

3.What else is a good way to thin their numbers besides hunting them. Foothold traps? Snares?

any other info would be nice also, i know they get extremely smart fast.