Coyote Meat?

KRJ said:
Coyotes eat other coyotes. I have shot 3 from my house in the last 2 days and the last two where munching on the first one. They have also been munching on my cats. So if you are out my way shoot them. Plus the furs are worth something now it would pay for your shells to skin them.
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I know the yotes we skinned and dumped in a pile were never touched by other yotes. Coon, shunks and birds were always there but never found a yote track, but we kept their numbers down. I know they love cats and maybe eating a fresh cat is better than a family member.
 
flashman said:
Fair enough! I certainly apply that rule to game animals I hunt, but there's other reasons I hunt other types of animals. Coyotes are an invasive (in ON) and fur bearing species, so that's two good reasons to hunt them right there, apart from for food. I don't eat any of the crows I shoot either, and don't feel the least bit guilty about it, as there's a purpose to killing them apart from food value. As long as there's a good reason for killing other than for killing's sake, I think you're fine. Not suggesting what you should do or questioning your personal preferences, just one hunter's opinion FWIW.
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100% agree, and there's plenty of folk around here to take care of population control. Like I said where my property is we don't have a huge coyote issue, so if the general consensus is it's not overly edible, I'll focus the time on something that I can take home. I have no issues with predator control or fur trade at all, just not my niche.
 
o man...some things are not meant to be eaten and thats one. Shoot em shovel em and shut up about it ;) (if its february and you didnt blow em up take the pelt)
 
Yup...picture a dog who loves to roll in whatever dead rotting carcass or patch of fecal matter it comes across. Picture that dog living its entire life surrounded by such opportunities, with nobody to ever say "No!" or to ever give it a bath. Now picture a coyote who lives that same way, and who also will happily eat the dog we were talking about.

Bon appetit! :)
 
IF You have any Amish or Mennonites near by ask them, they are really good on preparing different types of wild game you would be surprised. I have tried Racoon before when I was on my Survial Instructor Course ... would I eat it again, absolutely if I had too. I think I would try Coyote .... I think the Road Runner would be Happy, Happy, Happy about it
 
tracker said:
I know the yotes we skinned and dumped in a pile were never touched by other yotes. Coon, shunks and birds were always there but never found a yote track, but we kept their numbers down. I know they love cats and maybe eating a fresh cat is better than a family member.
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They are really thick here. Its getting cold and they are hungry.
 
Up here in Canada it's also not customary to eat squirrel, yet some do. But coyote, cannot say I've heard of anyone eating that, but I don't get out much. Even the fish and game banquet has never had a dish of coyote. Let us all know how you make out if you try it. That'll really make my wife queasy. Lol
 
I picked up a silver fox that had been hit on the highway about 6 weeks back, it was still warm. Skinned it out and hung the remainder low in a tree for the birds etc. Went by the location the other day with the Argo and it is still there barely touched. A fox is not a coyote but to me it is in the same class for diner fair. Kind of tells you something when in the dead of winter even the Whisky Jacks, Magpies, crows and Ravens won't touch a dead fox.
 
If you have spent any time at all skinning yotes or wolves I can't imagine having the desire to eat one. I would put it right up there with ermine and mink for least palatable meat on earth. They have a stink you can taste when skinning.

"pass the braised Coyote" doesn't seem to have a ring to it at all.
 
clutch mcgriffin said:
Good story! Answers the question.
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Yes, it answers the question "If a guy gets so excited about shooting a small coyote that he skins it out for taxidermy...during shirt-sleeve weather when the pelt is crap...and even this guy admits that it tastes terrible...do you really, really want to eat one?"
 
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