Hunting & Fishing Dead coyotes for bait?
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I’ve never seen it, leave a lot laying on the farms and ussually it takes a few weeks befor a buzzard will even mess with it. That’s in Ky where they aren’t as hungry though. Last few weeks when it got cold and snow covered I had 4 or 5 laying in the field spread out in a 5 acre area completely covered in snow and froze. Had a small female come through and she walked straight to every carcus snuffed and pawled at them then walked to the next and did the same thing. Never did try to eat the it was like she was just trying to figure out who they were or maybe if they were still alive I’m not sure
They'd probably eat the gut pile from a coyote. I've hunted whitetail deer under another deer's gut pile with success.
The only thing dead coyotes attract are buzzards and bald eagles. Since I have a bald eagle family that has nested the past three winters on the ranch, I always try to leave a few coyotes laying for them.
I've had a stack of dead ones as well, 6 or 7 high and the only thing that will touch them is the possums and skunks. Even with the dead ones stacked up, new coyotes would still come in and weren't bothered by their buddies frozen to the ground next to a bait.
Here in NC I have definitely seen coyotes eating a dead coyote. I've killed several that were eating their friend from the night before. They eat all kinds of other dead stuff, why not each other?
I doubt a coyote would eat its dead brethren unless it was really desperate. Road killed deer on the other hand work quite well for a bait pile. One winter in ND, I got permits from the sheriff's dept to pick up dead deer on the roadside. The pile had 5 or 6 by March and brought in skunks, coyotes, racoons, and a bald eagle. Big stinking mess though when things warmed up.
They will if they are good and hungry. Tough winter in North Dakota a few years back I shot 3 out of a group of 6 that came into call one night. One made it to a large cattail slough and I couldn’t find him so I came back the next day. All that my brother and I found was the spine and fur. As many tracks as there were it was more than the three that I didn’t get.
Ours must be really desperate then, they will usually take the time to drag the dead one away to eat it. Or maybe they're giving it a proper burial...
