Coyote Carcass

[Hecouldgoalltheway]

So in otherwords since some contaminants are already there, the hell with it. Paper plants and other industrial plants might as well go back to dumping in all our water ways as there is no such thing as clean water by that thinking.

You're so confused. You think a dead animal is pollution. The fish eat that thing to the bones in a week. Ive seen them gone in 3 days. You think that that's pollution? Where do wounded, sick and diseased animals die? In the creek. Critters lay down in the water and die all the time. When we have had outbreaks of EHD in the past, ive seen stretches of creeks with a dead deer every 50y for miles. You haven't thought this through, you simply had a knee jerk reaction to some fuddlore, and you think you have the moral high ground, so you're trying to push your point, but you don't. You think letting them rot uneaten in a field is better than feeding the fish? Like I said, you haven't thought it through.

 

[bohunr]

what kind of fish are in that creek that clean a coyote to the bones in 3 days ?

 

[Hecouldgoalltheway]

All sorts I reckon. I could probably prove it right now if it hadn't been raining so much. The batch I killed this weekend were put into the creek on Sunday night. If it hadn't rained and swelled the creek up, so they were laying where I dropped them, you'd already be able to see white bones.

 

[ChrisLD]

I put them in all different locations to never draw attention to one spot in particular. For a little while, I was throwing all my carcasses from trapping on my property. I wised up, the smell was revolting with a mass burial site.

 

[AWS]

I don't know of a fish that would eat a fresh carcass but turtles, crayfish and birds work them over. I also know I wouldn't want to be known as the guy throwing dead animals in the creek.

 

[Samsquanch]

@Hecouldgoalltheway I see your point. I see the others as well. Both make sense. Everything good and bad flows downhill and you are correct, a lot of sick or wounded critters will likely die very near water. Personally, I've not dropped carcasses into a waterway, but doesn't mean it's wrong. Probably a lot of personal opinions flying around on this thread. Don't know if there is a right and wrong here. I've always been taught to take care of the water best we can which leads to my personal thoughts on the matter. I think it also comes down to how I want others viewing us as hunters. Don't want an anti seeing a pile of carcasses in the crick and making a racket about how the "hunters are polluting the waterway". Even worse, someone "on the fence" about hunting. That dump site could sway their mind and turn them into an anti! Is it illegal? IDK. 'Spose every state has their regs, but if not, just 'cause it ain't illegal doesn't make it ok, but yet that's just another opinion.

 

[bohunr]

just toss them in the truck bed and drive down the highway, tossing one out every 10 miles or so. that way they'll look like road kill

 

[Heymartay]

I actually had a buddy say some guys in the drywall business, “hint hint” wanted a couple cause they made some kind of salve or liniment out of the rendering's. Some old family recipe I would think.

 

[Newpond0]

Try selling them to restaurants start with buffets. $10 per skinned dog

 

[bohunr]

take a photo of the dead coyote for language interpretation skills to the local chinese restaurant. ask the manger if he wants them for personal use. 30.00 each,

i bet you get a deal that includes free meal coupons, maybe a massage and pedicure too

 

[AWS]

We used to render down beaver fat to make bird balls to hang around trapping camp. Wonder if the birds would come to coyote fat and seed balls.

 

[Hecouldgoalltheway]

Where I live, nothing on the ground will eat a dead coyote. The buzzards won't even touch them. It takes months for them to rot to bones. I killed one a few years ago that Tory Cook said was the oldest coyote he'd ever seen. I left it out in the field to rot away so I could collect the skull. It took nearly 6 months before it was clean. After 60 days it barely looked any different than the day I shot it.

 

[ChrisLD]

I have seen the same thing buddy. I try to return them to the woods. A couple years ago we killed a pair, and left them lay out in the high grass where we killed them. Went back in the fall, and they were still in the field looked about the exact same just deflated to a flat look. If I had a machine I would just dig a hole and bury it over a few times a year.


I know a guy who does the creek thing too..

 

[ChrisLD]

just toss them in the truck bed and drive down the highway, tossing one out every 10 miles or so. that way they'll look like road kill

A guy I used to work with did this on 79. I saw them one day driving into work. When I got there I was looking forward to asking him if he saw the dead coyotes on the side of the highway… “yeah, did you see they have .204 holes in them too” he told me.


I asked if he was to big of a pussy to throw them 2 feet further over the guard rails

 

[Spurchaser]

That weird about buzzards not eating coyotes, they’ll gobble them up here. Only thing I’ve seen eventually “rot” away are hogs. Not all, but a good number of them.

 

[hunt0168]

Yep… about the only things that’ll touch a coyote here are Turkey Vultures and maggots.

 

[Murl B]

Turkey Vultures gobble them up here after a few day's all that's left is some hide and bones my critter dump always has Vultures sitting around we call them O'Bomma voters , my Jeep is meals on wheels, is that racist ??? Murl B.

 

[hunt0168]

Turkey Vultures gobble them up here after a few day's all that's left is some hide and bones my critter dump always has Vultures sitting around we call them O'Bomma voters , my Jeep is meals on wheels, is that racist ??? Murl B.

is that racist ???… Nope, just an analogy of a sad twist on reality.

 

[DAA]

Seems like everything eats them around here. Little birds. Big birds. Coyotes. Badgers. Usually, within a week or two, there is nothing but some hair left on the ground. Occasionally, if they have been skinned, little birds get it all before other critters have a chance and a full skeleton is left. The big birds and the coyotes carry off the bigger pieces and bones and leave nothing but some hair behind. I've seen badgers drag them off whole and bury them too.

This one was about two weeks, little birds got it all.

I once filled the cab of this truck with 14 dead coyotes. Came back two weeks later and there wasn't any sign of them in the cab. And not much sign on the ground around it. Just some hair and small bones here and there. But there was more fresh coyote crap on the ground in the area around that truck than I have ever seen in one spot before.

- DAA

 

[SupressYourself]

I may have purposely left one sticking out of my garbage can. The reactions from neighbors were pretty good, but the garbage truck guy didn't even bat an eye.