General Discussion

Clever, adaptable, usually eat all the right things - mice, rats, etc.

But countless studies have shown that if you hunt coyotes, you do two things that both work against what the coyote-killers are saying that they are after.
1) you shoot the dumb ones...and even coyotes have dumb ones. That just educates the survivors to be more careful around humans.
2) you remove a predator from an area, and the food supply..mice, rats, etc... just multiplies. Other coyotes move into the territory to take advantage of the food supply.
Either way, you end up with a more numerous and intelligent coyote population.

What to do about them? I used to live in a very rural area, and I put hot wire..electric fence..around my chicken area. Then I tied bacon to the wire..when it was off, of course. The coyotes that came around... and their children and grandchildren will avoid the place like the plague.
An educated coyote is better than a dead coyote.
Read: "Don Coyote" by Dayton Hyde. While your at it, read any of the books by Rick McIntyre about the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone. "The Reign of Wolf 21" is a good start.