Now I am just curious, I know you should never kill an animals just because... but I am just curious as to what you guys do with the carcasses of coyotes or other small game like gophers? Is the meat any good? I know you can sell the pelts, but what do you do with the rest of the animals? Thanks
Coyote
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Leave it for the birds.
Got a few hundred thousand square klicks of Crown land a few minutes west of me. The ravens like skinned yote carcasses. Gophers? Leave them where they lay and drive off and watch for 30 minutes. The dozens of ravens, magpies and hawks that show up after a shoot make short work of the remains. Not to mention the gophers cannibalistic brethren. And the yotes and foxes and weasels. Come to think of it, even after shooting hundreds of gophers in a field on one day, I've never seen a left over carcass the next one.
ok thank you guys for this info, I was just concerned about what to do with them because I am going out on saturday for my first hunt ever. Just incase I manage to call one in I didnt want to just be left there not knowing what to do with a dead yote. Thanks
After we skin the coyotes we open them to see what they are eating, cut them into quarters and hang the peices for the birds, coon to eat them. We never had coyotes or foxes eat the carcass. Since you are hunting Southern Ontario place the carcass in stomp piles away form the view of nature walkers etc.
I posted something similar in another thread, but with simple cull hunting, at least of yotes, does anyone keep the skins? I don't hunt yet, but I'm curious why people don't at least keep the pelts? They're nice and soft, and beautiful. I'd be happy to even do clean up and skin them and take what I need from the carcasses!
Someone hasnt gotten close enought to smell a dead yote i take it
Most of the yotes i whack are not worth the effort for fur (nasty mange in the area i am at) I just drop em and take pictures if they are worth it.
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- Kelowna, BC
Well I shoot them with a 300 WSM...not much left to pick up.... Just sold that and got a Winchester 700 in 300 RUM. It should leave nothing to pick up..
Nice and soft and stink so bad I allmost puked. Hell my buddy I was with actually puked after chuking one in the box of the pick-up. I'm told they're not worth much with holes in em anyways.
Well, you can sew up the holes. But realistically, the price for the pelts has to be good (it fluctuates with demand from furriers), they can't be badly damaged, and the fur has to be nice. Mange (it's a disease) ridden pelts are worth nothing. Yes, they do stink. Back in the 70s, I made good beer money off coyote pelts, I don't bother any more however. It also helps the farmers and ranchers, by keeping the coyote numbers down they have less losses during calving and lambing season. - dan
Like the fleas, the mange, the general stink? You can keep it.
As to whether coyotes eat their own. Yep, they do. A few years ago we shot one and cut it up a bit to bleed out. Then left it out overnight in the back 40 with all existing tracks removed. Next morning it was gone, shedloads of coyote tracks were everywhere and the yote crap we found the following day had yote fur in it.
We shipped 26 most shot with rifles, best price was around $35 down to $2 for a couple, 9 unsold in the mid grade range. It pays for a group breakfest but don't quite your job to make a living from coyotes. Interesting about eating their own as we never had them come to the skinning area, just coon, skunks and lots of birds but we where there doing an underwear job almost daily.
Keeping the yote population down in the winter probably keeps the gopher population up in the spring.
The populations of both critters are artificially high as they've both adapted well to cultivated farmland ecosystems
The populations of both critters are artificially high as they've both adapted well to cultivated farmland ecosystems
