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I wouldn't -- but sometimes you can eat coyote meat. Best would be either well-done grilled, in a stew or make jerky from it.

This is oversimplifying it, but basically the taste of the coyote will reflect what it's been feeding on. Around populated areas, forget it. Coyotes will scavenge garbage and feed on rodents and old carcasses, and that gets into the fat and skin, and you won't tolerate the taste, let alone the smell.

The only time I've heard they're remotely palatable is up north where they may follow a wolf pack and scavenge a lot of fresh meat. or very strong young yotes that can bring down deer and are eating lots of fresh kills like rabbits. Older or feeble yotes won't taste as good. When you get near it to try to skin it, you'll know. I'd say, 99% of the time you'll hold your nose and walk away.
 
barrett50cal said:
I wouldn't -- but sometimes you can eat coyote meat. Best would be either well-done grilled, in a stew or make jerky from it.

This is oversimplifying it, but basically the taste of the coyote will reflect what it's been feeding on. Around populated areas, forget it. Coyotes will scavenge garbage and feed on rodents and old carcasses, and that gets into the fat and skin, and you won't tolerate the taste, let alone the smell.

The only time I've heard they're remotely palatable is up north where they may follow a wolf pack and scavenge a lot of fresh meat. or very strong young yotes that can bring down deer and are eating lots of fresh kills like rabbits. Older or feeble yotes won't taste as good. When you get near it to try to skin it, you'll know. I'd say, 99% of the time you'll hold your nose and walk away.
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that makes sense too. Good thing i have virtually no sense of smell. Im sure if its that bad ill get a good whiff of it though. So i guess ill leave the meat out there, and harvest what i need.

One more newbie question if i may, most of the conversation has used coyote as example. Is fox in the same category?
 
I haven't shot a fox in years...they were much more common when I was a kid in Ontario, before there was a coyote under every bush...but I recall that they don't hold a candle to yotes in the stink department. A lot of foxes had a noticeable ammonia/urine odour, not the combination of urine/raw-sewage/rotten-meat/dead-animal/garbage/foul-ethnic-cuisine that permeates yotes.
 
jjohnwm said:
Unless you only eat meat you produce yourself, by some combination of hunting and/or raising livestock, you really can't know what the hell you are eating.

Even venison (which literally refers to meat obtained by hunting, i.e. not strictly deer meat) if taken in farm country, which is almost always the case, comes from critters who are feeding on crops that have been sprayed with who-knows-what cocktails of pesticides, herbicides, etc. And as Maximum observed, many commercial operations feed cattle with feeds produced using beef by-products. Wasn't that one of the main concerns with the spread of Mad Cow Disease?
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The condensed version: The left overs from the industrial abattoirs were put to use by reducing it and making it into protein cakes. This was fed back to the cattle. A good idea in theory. Unfortunately Mad Cow Disease was lurking in this food source. They had that huge mess in the UK a few years back and this food source is now banned there as cattle feed. There was a movement to ban the use of this food source in NA but I do not know where that situation rests right now.
 
caustic said:
I don't eat animals that eat meat.
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I'm curious if you eat fish or seafood? Most if not all fish are predators that eat smaller fish or plankton. Chicken will eat just about any small creature they can get down their gullet. Commercial animals are often fed with feed that can contain animal protein. This is a possible explanation for the spread of BSE.
 
Laugh2 it just keeps getting better, but really who eats yotes and foxes? Too funny, even my wife was laughing at that one. Seriously just skin the flea bags in the field and let nature take its course.
Cheers
Geoff
 
Yotes make awesome hats!

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