Coyotes arent very big. Coyotes are scavangers. And like with a lot of things, lazy ranchers and farmers want to blame everyone else but themselves for incompetence and laziness.

Want to keep your livestock from randomly dying and Coyotes dining on the what little remains of your family's precious ranch? Maybe grow a little responsibility and start actually paying attention to your family's assets, including your lifestock.

If you can't pay a shred of attention to your precious calves, then maybe it's time you considered selling your ranch to someone who can.

This deliberate myth that coyotes somehow take calves that are closely guarded by any animal with a living herd instinct, like cattle worth raising, and not stupid cattle who can't even defend their own offspring cause they're too braindead, is merely an excuse to go running around with shotguns and jeeps hunting coyotes, wolves and foxes, but especially coyotes.

...Edited by Champlain Islander...
There's a lot of far more worthy prey to go hunting for than coyotes who are doing what nature endowed them to do, which is not let dead animals go to waste.

Dead livestock are 100% the responsibility of incompetent ranchers, and 0% the responsibility of coyotes.

If you are a rancher and you happen to own a herd of braindead cattle with not even a shred of herd instinct, maybe it's time you sold that cattle, and restocked in a smarter breed of cattle that can survive you not visiting the ranch for weeks at a time?

Alternatively, maybe you should hire some staff to attend your braindead herd, if you aren't going to be paying them any attention? No matter how you slice it, the coyote is not at fault.

[edited some minor grammar mistake.]