coyotes eatin what???!!!!! won't believe this...

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been out scoutin one of the ranches i hunt on.. to see what wiley and his girl friend are up to... fyi - the calves at the ranch are up to good size and are not threatened now.. well i found sign.. looked odd.. obviously NOT their normal diet.. no rabbit hair.. no mesquite roots or pods.. anyway.. i kept moving and noticing that the cow patties had been disturbed.. kinda broken up and scattered around in little chunks.. and then i notice the patties are missing ...volume.. then i remembered the odd looking sign.. iack!!! these cows and calves are being fed really good supliment.. "gag".. yeppers thats what our coyotes been eatin.. "you are what you eat".. takes on a whole new meaning for me.. anyone else seen this?
 
Street, Ive seen where a yote will almost eat anything. I f you ever notice, one or two yotes tend to hang around a feed yard. They like the sweet feed that fattens up cattle as much as the cattle. When I lived out Van Horn way, several farmers raised chili peppers. Yotes love the peppers. You could find red chili pepper yote piles 3-4 miles from the fields.
 
thanks bob.. i thought i was getting loopy there for a while.. hahaha.. i see your down at big spring.. i have a deer lease south of sterling city.. got some bobcats .. i'm trying to learn the methods for calling them.. as i understand it.. its best not to howl..lol.. thanks for the info.. btw.. i'm just south of lubbock
 
Seen 'em eat cow flop a lot, especially during calving time when it has a lot fo milk in it still, and I've sen them go ga-ga over watermelon. The sadhills around here are big about producing acre after acre of watermelon and the coyotes just tear 'em up.
 
I have seen them flip over cow chip and eat the bug but I haven't seen them eat the chips. My neighber had one eating bird seed that had fallen under a feeder. And during grape season I see lots of grape seeds in the scat. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 
Yeah, I saw the same thing in WY. The coyote I shot one day was flipping the pies over to eat the grubs or bugs under them. He had a lot of them moved, before he stopped moving,ha, no more eating bugs for that boy!KY
 
I've seen them hanging around the calves to eat their manure. I read somewhere that it contains about 27% protein. Dont know it that's correct or not. I've never witnessed them eating a mature cow's manure, but I dont know why they wouldn't.
 
yes thay will eat anything. The coyotes in our lease eat the corn in the senderos and feeders. Iv'e even seen one eat his own entrails (have it on video) after a shot, before collapsing
 
Street, you hunt towards the cap (east) or aroung the sandy country west. Need to holler some time you blow thru. I've lucked in to more cats than trying to go specifically after them. But it helps to be in good cat country which that is. Which way out of Sterling you huntin?
 
We went into Yellowstone in January and spent about 30 minutes watching a coyote clean up an area that buffalo had just left. It was really cold and blowing but there was only maybe a foot of snow. The area the bison had been on was pretty close to bare ground. The coyote might have been eating something else, but it looked like it was eating "chips" to me. I have a couple of pictures and even some video of it, but I've not figured out how to post pictures yet. I have it saved as a .jpg file and I would be happy to put it up on the board if someone can tell me-really slow, and really simple, okay totally simple how to post it.
 
I was told by a very experienced hog hunter a "sure thing" bait recipe so I tried baiting some ferel hogs one evening with a gallon of buttermilk mixed with 100 lbs. of whole corn. He said the buttermilk keeps the deer from eating the corn...next morning it was almost all cleaned up. Not a hog or deer track in sight but tons of coyote scat & tracks. I got to thinking, I know a lot of old timers up in their 70-80's that love "crumalin"(sp?) cornbread and buttermilk. These coyotes must have thought they "won the lottery" when they found my bait. That was the first & last time I tried that.

One coyote delicacy is the frog from a horse's hoof. After you've had your horses shod, see how long the frog trimmings stay around if you live in coyote country...they love 'em.

Dairies and feedlots are a "smorgasbord" for coyotes. Deads, placentas (a coyote favorite), baby calves, milk barn cats, mice, & high quality feed...and you bet they eat it...cow patties...the fresher the better...preferably if it is still steaming hot!
 
I think the coyotes hang around cows for another reason also. With calves dropping, the coyotes love the afterbirth and the calves turd is high in protein because of the milk they are drinking. :eek: My grandpa in WY said the yotes always hang around his calving pasture. Coyotes seem to hang around large groups of animals, wild or domestic so keep that in mind when you look for a place to hunt.
 
This is not uncommon here in the midwest around cattle opperations. Coytoes, fox, and domestic dogs are all known to eat calf scat. The scat is rich due to the calfs diet of milk. All of these canines also go nuts during the actual calfing time eating the afterbirth (placenta).
 
I watched a mangy looking coyote in Sunset Hills Mo eat the poop from a labrador retriever out of the back yard. The urban yotes hang out on the golf courses and terrorize poodles. This one was hunting for choades.
 
As a biology major, I did my senior research on the coyote and they are a true omnivore......They will eat ANYTHING!!! Including not only cowpatties, but afterbirth as well. Remember, in nature The energy gained must outweigh the energy lost...and it takes a lot less work to catch a cowpie than it does to catch a jackrabbit.
 
bob i hunt on a couple ranches around tahoka lake.. its a virtual wilderness.. then just southeast of sterling city.. bout 8 miles on the san angelo road.. its my first year down there.. i'm hoping to head that way soon for a little scouting mission.. tried to get away last friday.. but work prevailed.. iack!!! how'd that happen? :rolleyes:
 
I found out that as in dogs and cats that their system is designed to eat meat not grass. They can get a lot from partially digested vegetable matter. One of the reasons that they will eat the intestines first. And like Kentucky_MADman said cow chips don't fun to fast. I have dogs that will eat horse grenades when given the chance. Makes you want to kiss them, don't it.

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......that's why some of them smell so BAD!!! You can almost lose your breakfast if you kill one and try to get close to look him over. I always have to drag mine out of the area, so he won't lay there and stink for the next month, but some of them are rotten. I guess it all depends on what they have been eating.

As bad as all of the other things mentioned are, I found once, where a human had answered the call of nature. The next day, it was all gone. I don't know if it was coyotes or not, but this was in an area with a lot of coyote sign. If they don't draw the line at the other things mentioned, then I am fairly sure that they wouldn't cull this.
 
I know a lot of old timers up in their 70-80's that love "crumalin"(sp?) cornbread and buttermilk. These coyotes must have thought they "won the lottery" when they found my bait. That was the first & last time I tried that.

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My Dad used to call that a Snellville Milkshake......... Also have heard it called a Countryboy milkshake. Man, I personally can't stand buttermilk in any form other than buttermilk biscuits.
 


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