Will a coyote eat a coyote carcass??

Shot one last year less than a mile from my house. Drove by it nearly every day and nothing touched it. it just rotted away. Guess we have picky eaters around here.
 
Originally Posted By: travjcYa really think a coyote has morals?
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Anything that has teeth has molars
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Chupa
 
Here's one for ya. I once read that a guy killed a coyote, left it by the side of the road to pick up later that same day, came back later and there was a bobcat feeding on the coyote. If I remember right, this happened down in AZ somewhere.
 
Kizmo has it.

I've watched several over the years and never saw one that looked like it had been worked over by coyotes. But with prime beef calves, cats and deer fawns abundant I'm guessing they just haven't had to go that direction where I've been.
 
i have left many dozens of skinned and unskinned coyotes in the field. i was always told they would eat their own, but never saw any evidence of it until a couple of years ago. the only one time out of all the carcasses i have left out, it was a female in heat, that was torn to bits and strewn out over a couple hundred yards. it was definitely coyotes that tore her apart as it was nice hard snow that showed tracks nearly perfectly.
 
Yep, killed one last weekend and left him on the edge of a plowed field. Came back the next day and buzzards were on him. One day later and his body had been dragged 100 yds. I purposely carried him away from my hunting area. Maybe next time i'll leave him lay.
 
Originally Posted By: jarheadhunterNote to self. Shoot coyote leave it lay. Come back few hrs later shoot other coyote.

I am wondering how many you could get in that one spot?!?!?! I imagine the more coyotes, the more stink, and the more stink the farther away the coyotes might be drawn from!
 
I've only seen one coyote carcass that looked like other coyotes might have eaten.

90% of he coyotes that I shoot will lay untouched by even buzzards for 2 to 4 weeks.

4 or 5 years ago, I shot 2 from my deer stand on consecutive days. one was 40 yards away, the other close to 300 yards. They layed there over 3 weeks before even the first buzzard hit them.
Now it was deer season, with lots of gut piles and unretrieved deer around, so there was plenty to eat.

Shayne
 
Seems to depend on where you are located and how hungry they are. I had a coyote lay for several months. Completely untouched. Just recently I had a dead yote laying out for a week then threw some deer remains in the same spot. The next day the deer was gone and the coyote was untouched.
 
Seen it! Shot the coyote eating the coyote that I shot the day before. Went back the third day to continue the circle of death I had created. But no luck. They are just nasty animals.

I also saw a coyote fighting with the anal cavity of a dead cow. He or another had chewed it out the day before when I found it. I sat over it once to cap one. The coyote would go into the butt and back out over and over. Barking and bearing teeth. I couldn't take it anymore so I shot him. I walked up to get him and a nasty opossum had made himself a home up in there.

To this day I will leave in the middle of the birth of my child to kill an opossum. Sick disgusting and worthless animals.
 
I left two last year in the snow, buzzards ate the eyes only, laid all winter untouched, shot one two weeks ago, and in two days it was only bones??????
 
Originally Posted By: Ward H.Seen it! Shot the coyote eating the coyote that I shot the day before. Went back the third day to continue the circle of death I had created. But no luck. They are just nasty animals.

I also saw a coyote fighting with the anal cavity of a dead cow. He or another had chewed it out the day before when I found it. I sat over it once to cap one. The coyote would go into the butt and back out over and over. Barking and bearing teeth. I couldn't take it anymore so I shot him. I walked up to get him and a nasty opossum had made himself a home up in there.

To this day I will leave in the middle of the birth of my child to kill an opossum. Sick disgusting and worthless animals.

A fella couldn't make up a story like the opossum living in a cow butt if he tried,lol. Watching the coyote snarl and attack the cavity would be purty ephed up. Funny stuff.
 
Oddly, in my experience, they WILL eat coyotes, but rarely eat skinned coons, not for a long time at least, if at all. No idea what that's about, but they just don't seem to be interested in coons.
 
It depends on the coyote that is dead. Some coyotes will be eaten very fast...Gone within a couple of days or sooner, while others will not be touched.

Even with a good food source readily avl., coyotes will eat other coyotes in favor of that food source.

I also think that the pecking order in a given area has something to do with what coyotes eat other coyotes.
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I base all of this on pretty extensive experience of trapping coyotes on or around dead coyotes. Usually what I caught in my traps at dead coyotes were younger coyotes that were a little further down the pecking order than say a dominant male coyote.


Coyotes WILL eat other coyotes though, for sure.

~Barry
 
Originally Posted By: Ward H.

To this day I will leave in the middle of the birth of my child to kill an opossum. Sick disgusting and worthless animals.

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Originally Posted By: VarminterrorOddly, in my experience, they WILL eat coyotes, but rarely eat skinned coons, not for a long time at least, if at all. No idea what that's about, but they just don't seem to be interested in coons.

I have had yotes eat everything but raccoons. This being skinned carcasses. But I have also seen yotes with the hide on get left uneaten..
 
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