Coyotes eating coyotes

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muleyboy

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I was wondering if anybody has seen a coyote eating another dead coyote./ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif I shot a couple of yotes here on my property and placed them close to the house after hearing some old timers say that if you put a dead coyote on a fence that other coyotes wouldn't come around. I have kids and don't want them anywhere close to the house. I know now that that is BS, because my wife took a shot at a coyote right next to where I had dumped one. I thought that maybe the yote was eating the other one, but there was no evidence to this thought. The yotes have passed by the two dead ones lots of times and didn't seem to care. I also thought that I might be able to shoot another one off of one of the dead ones, but no such luck.
 
MULEBOY: I realize you were hoping to keep other coyotes away, but do you suppose one coyote would eat another if the dead coyote had been completely skinned out, leaving only meat, bones, and guts? If so, maybe you would get a shot at the hungry one. I've noted evidence of only birds and insects eating a furred, dead coyote, but I wonder if skunks or badgers (or ??) would consider a coyote to be either an epicurian delight or something to hold famine at bay.
 
we have them eat the ones from our dead pile now and then,but not allot! but the coyote on th fence thing doesn't bother them much here! I have one land owner that likes to see them on the fence! we still kill plenty of oytes on his place!
 
I've had .fox eat my dead coyote carcasses that were skinned.. but never had coyote eat coyote. Never had a problem with the coyotes staying away due to the dead ones hangin around. Wasn't there an old thing about pinnin the coyotes up to the ranch gates or fence etc.. as a warning to keep other coyotes away? all myth to me anyways...
I think if you find the right chinese family you might be able to get them to eat them.. I was asked before... shook my head twice then laughed.. then shook my head again.. and said... ummm, na, not a good idea... there is a health issue. hahahha but if you wanna pay me I'll drop the carcass off and you can do whatever you want with it. hahaha
 
I skinned the dark phase coyote, that I posted a couple weeks ago, and disposed of the carcass. 1 week later, I check the carcass and 90% of it had been eaten by coyotes.

A couple of years ago, we were on our Idaho hunt. We had a pile of 15 coyotes lined up on the rocks. One morning, we woke up to find a coyote trying to drag one of the carcasses off the pile. A quick shot from the tent door added another one to the pile.

Tony
 
Went back and tried the spot again that I shot one couple days ago... The coyote I'd shot had the opening of mange so I left it.. the other coyotes went through there sometime through the night and stepped right on the dead coyote but that was it....
 
I killed one back in December just before Christmas. It was a blow up so I just tossed it in the fencerow. I walked by it yesterday and it's hardly been touched. Something ate around the big hole left when I shot it but that's it. Been plenty of coyotes passing through the area even though the dead one is there.

Good hunting y'all..Coyote 6974
 
I'm only speaking for my part of the country , but here in Alabama not even a buzzard will touch a coyote. Coyotes that have been runover or shot off the road by spotlighters seem to lay in the ditch for months with not so much as even a crow touching them. I called in a couple of yotes in a two day period and tossed them in a ditch due to bullet destruction and they still lay there untouched 45 days later. Just my two cents.
 
The ones that I tossed were tore up too, and nothing has touched them yet except the maggots. I will have to go back in about another month and get their skulls.
 
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A quick shot from the tent door added another one to the pile.




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All laughs aside, I've seen a yote carcass eaten twice by their own over 15 years although.

First time was 15 years ago. We shot one and the next day there was a raven and a yote eating. Both got it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

This year, not far from my house, I found a wolf killed yote. It was partially eaten by the wolf and something scared him away I suspect. A few days later, I returned and it was pulled apart by other yotes. A few days later it was well scattered and picked clean. The yotes were still investigating too.
 
Last year left a coyote fur and all out in the snow and two days later it was cleaned all the way to the bones by other coyotes? Two weeks ago left a skinned coyote out in the woods and came back last week and there were yote tracks around it but nothing touched it. Went back two days ago and couldn't find a trace of the yote?

Mountainyote...
 
Seven years ago, Heath and I decided to go out coyote and chukar hunting for four days. We were in southern part of Idaho about 6,500 feet high in the mountains. We were going to rough it in a tent (the manly thing to do, you know!!), in the so called back 40 . The mid-day temp was 30 to 40 deg. When night fell, it went to 4 deg. below 0 . We froze our butts off every night and to make things worse, the propane heater and stove froze up. So, no heater and coffee in the morning and no breakfast. We were grouchy men to put it mildly. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif

So, we stayed awake all night long because of all these coyotes howling, not counting the cold temperatures. We got up put on our bone-cold pants and boots on and out the tent we went with our guns and calls in hand, we were going to kick some butt. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Up the hill from camp, we did the first set up. I called in 5 coyotes all at the same time . Heath shot his very first coyotes, two that morning, & I shot the other three, but I had to run over a hill to shoot the last one. Later in the day, we shot three more. So, that night there was eight coyotes not far from the tent. About midnight all hell broke loose. We had coyotes jumping into the back of the truck trying to get into the coolers where all the food was /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. So, we jumped out of our sleeping bags, in our underwear /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif and shot gun in hand and a flash light. Went out bare footed, I was shaking so bad that I couldn’t get a good shot as they ran off . Went back to bed and almost got to sleep, and all hell broke loose again. This time, it was all the other coyotes fighting and howling at each other over the eight dead coyotes. We finally got to sleep about four in the morning and got up at seven and went after them again. There was four coyotes gone out of the eight, hair and chunks of coyotes all over the place.
We ended up getting twelve coyotes and some chukars. We definitely had a great time out hunting coyotes. I don’t use a propane stove any more either. Ha! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif GENE’O
 
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