Many of the lambs are killed in May and June...Coyotes need protein for the pups and they start to kill then...However just like the video Howling Bucks...They also kill the fawn then for the pups protein...I just could not understand at the time? Coyotes would kill this women sheep every May and June. She would call.. However she would never make an effort to put the sheep in the barn at night.. Hence the coyotes would grab them right by the throat...IMO it has nothing to do when the lambs are born.. It when the coyote pups were born.. Also funny they would kill the adult sheep, the Yews to be specific. See sheep are not to smart..
Just a few weeks ago I got to talking to a women that worked for the local government.. She told me that when this women sheep was killed they were paying here for the loss..Maybe that's why she never really cared about the killings since she was being reimbursed for each sheep kill..
I tell you who gets hit in May and June... It's the farmers that are by major waterways..Figure coyotes with young need shelter, food, and water...Also they travel these waterways. I remember when Dave Dunbar put that NH study video on one of the hunting forums...The women doctor who did the study did say that the Coyote Core areas are always around water and swamps.
IMO...May and June is when the large sheep loses occur and it all because of the new pups needing protein...
