Coyotes are eating hay.

mainekiller

mainekiller

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We shot 4 coyotes in one area Saturday and saw where they were eating fermented hay bales. These are the large rolled kind and the coyotes are eating them up! They are also eating cow pies but the hay bales are the main attractor. Have any of you witnessed this before?

I am writing a stoy with pics from the hunt.
 
I have seen theim eat all sorts of stuff. One I saw one that spent a good part of a day eating the tops off of sorghum. I also bet they are mousing in the bails at the same time. I have seen yotes hunt the feed lines here in the winter. Also I know my dog has a hard time passing up a good pie every now and then????
 
When a dog eats cow dung it is said that they are trying to get a mineral that's missing in their diet. They even have a "fancy" name for it ....... Pica

I think that they just relish in grossing out those with weaker stomachs but that's just my theory!

I have never heard of 'otes eating rotten hay but Hey, what ever tripps their trigger ....... so long as it's not our calves ...... though it often does!

We have witnessed scat from coyotes that ate our watermelons and the neighbors apples. We have witnessed 'otes punching holes in irrigation dripper line and lapping the water from it!

The "dripper line" fiasco did not instill humor around here!!

So, I guess it begs the question: "Does anybody have a watermelon, cowpie, millet head, rotten hay bale or dripper line IN DISTRESS SOUND??"

Just my wooden nickel's worth!

Three 44s
 
Is it possible the hay is fermenting? That might have something to do with it? I knew an old dairy farmer who had a spigot at the bottom of his silage silo. He was drinking the juice out of it. It eventually killed him. He was drunk nearly 24 hours a day from that stuff.
 
Everyone is probably right on this one. Another reason could be just for fiber in their diet. Out here we invariable find toyon berries and Russian olives in our coyotes. I believe it helps them keep regular, which rids them (temporarily) of parasites such as round worms.
 
These coyotes aren't supplementing their diet with hay, they are living on it. There are 3 bales that have been reduced to almost nothing. I have never seen coyote sign this heavy in any area ever! I am not sure why they are doing but it has been a mild winter here and they aren't eating deer like they normally do. The deer aren't confined to the yards and the sick and wounded deer have all been eaten. just a guess. 3 of the yotes we shot were 30#ers (last springs pups) and we thought they looked thin but after skinning one I found some good fat on him. Coyotes are amazing animals, they find so many ways to make it through a long Maine winter. BTW, seeing 9-12 different coyotes in one day (in one area!) in Maine is unheard of. I will post the story but it is wicked long!
 
In AZ we find scat laced with all kinds of different vegetation. Anything from Prickly Pear apples to what looks like plain old grass. Most of the scat we see contains something that's obviously not animal. We think they just eat whatever is easiest to catch....plant matter doesn't run very fast. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
This is an easy one to explain. They are gay, vegetarian coyotes visiting from Vermont. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
Maybe they are gay, vegetarian coyotes campaigning for Hilary Clinton, who hopes her animal rights groups will have given animals the right to vote by then! She probably trained em' to do that too!
 
Wait a minute here ohiobob. The mention of happy coyotes cracked you up? Happy coyotes really tick me off. They're the ones that are always looking back at me smiling while they're running off into the brush. I HATE 'em. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif
 
I've always heard that they'll eat calf crap due to the high milk content in it. Not sure about the hay? I do know the cows like the fermented stuff because it has a sweet taste to it.
 
yes they could be gay clinton coyotes. all the more reason to shoot them.

or they could be regular coyotes digging in the bales for mice and as they break them apart deer are eating and dispersing the hay. the nutritional value of a dried up bale would be extremely low to a coyote. lower than any other substance i've heard of them ingesting.
 
I saw the results of a study once, done on the stomach contents of road killed coyotes in some western state and it claimed over 63 identifiable items ranging from the normal food sources (rabbits,mice,Etc) to parts of tin cans, rubber soles of tennis shoes, beaver, deer, snakes, lizards, berries, melons and a whole slew of other items. They are Omnivores and will eat what it takes to survive.

Let's see now...how can I get the distress cries of a Nike recorded? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
its furmenting right? well its like me and beer... lol
no ive never seen it, but ive had black bears rip up hundreds of bales of hay for some ungodly reason.

but weasel may be onto something here. migrateing blackbears and coyotes, did anyone see any rainbow colored bracelets on them?

and mainekiller, i dont know man... id kill them tho, they aint right, next you cows will be rinnin down rabbits...
 
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