Warning/Danger sign

[Bob Peters]

Last time out I was driving to a new public spot on the map. I came to a cattle grate and there was a sign I'd never seen before. It was a warning that there was poison in the area to protect livestock. It then mentioned that cyanide was fatal to dogs. The sign was put up by the state, as it had the seal on it. I just whipped a u-e and boogied out of that area. Have you ever seen this before?

 

[dukxdog]

Next time take a photo. Easy.
What kind of poison?

 

[haymaker]

Good decision. It is cyanide, placed to control coyotes.

 

[carptom1]

More than likely M44 launchers . Look them up they are nasty. I saw a couple West River one year they bait them and when triggered it blows cyanide out. I wouldn’t be anywhere near them.

 

[BrdHntr]

I’ve seen that sign just once - last season - glad they posted it - but sent chills….

 

[Bob Peters]

I found this article. A little long, but a quick skim explains the poison traps.

Dux, the poison is cyanide, mentioned in original post.

Cyanide devices remain part of predator control efforts in S.D.

Editor’s note: This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. Despite growing national pressure to end their use, small...

www.sdnewswatch.org

 

[Plannerman]

Saw similar signs in Montana about 20 years... luckily when deer not bird hunting

 

[BRITTMAN]

Seems indiscriminate and a poor environmental decision.

 

[haymaker]

Seems indiscriminate and a poor environmental decision.

My experience is that they only use it when there is a problem. We lost a calf, and the state trapper set one up. We did not get the coyote.

 

[BRITTMAN]

Let a couple guys with night vision scopes (if legal in SD) on the property and the coyote problem will cease to exist.

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

When I run across a bone yard( where dead cattle have been drug off to) It worries me that maybe they have been top dressed with something to poison coyotes?

 

[haymaker]

Let a couple guys with night vision scopes (if legal in SD) on the property and the coyote problem will cease to exist.

Our state trapper does use night vision, and it helps. We also have a predator control district that hires an airplane to control coyotes. He shoots four to five hundred coyotes a year, and there are still calf losses every year.

 

[haymaker]

When I run across a bone yard (where dead cattle have been drug off to) It worries me that maybe they have been top dressed with something to poison coyotes?

Every cattle producer has death loss. In my case I have not lost any to poison, as I have only used it once. I don't like it but there isn't much that is worse than discovering a half-eaten newborn calf.

 

[BrownDogsCan2]

Every cattle producer has death loss. In my case I have not lost any to poison, as I have only used it once. I don't like it but there isn't much that is worse than discovering a half-eaten newborn calf.

I probably worded that wrong. Would a rancher ever throw arsenic or antifreeze or something else on a carcass that died from natural causes that would kill a coyote when they fed on it? . I worry about a dog dragging off a bone or a piece of hide and getting sick from it.

 

[haymaker]

I probably worded that wrong. Would a rancher ever throw arsenic or antifreeze or something else on a carcass that died from natural causes that would kill a coyote when they fed on it? . I worry about a dog dragging off a bone or a piece of hide and getting sick have and I don't

 

[haymaker]

I never have. I don't know of anyone that has. That is why we formed a predator control district. We take donations and when someone has a problem the airplane and the state trapper show up and usually take care of the problem.