we live a mile kitty-corner to the forest and have 2 deer hanging in the attached garage. There is a hide in a plastic bag and 4 legs in another bag outside the garage. I assume the yotes could smell this and or whats in the garage, it's been there for a few days. Anyway, last evening we could hear them howling, not far away. This morning there were many tracks in the snow out back. We left the 4 flood lights on the house on all night, no tracks up front. Just how far away can they tell there is food somewhere? We didn't let the cat out last night and kept the dogs last call to pee very short and under a watchful eye. Everything should be cleaned up and gone by Monday night. Hopefully they will move on looking elsewhere for food.
Yotes - Smell - Distance ?
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It doesn't much matter how far away they can smell, (and it's a long ways) they wander around at night in places you wouldn't otherwise see them. They probably have noticed your deer.
by jimmanycricket, I just took dem tree gators out for da winter, maybe datz why day iz comin around!
please excuse him, he's from "out of town", he speaks Lookaneeze, it's the best he's gonna master our language!
Bigfoot 870
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Contrary to popular belief, coyotes do not actually use ACME brand binoculars. The nose knows.
the spank
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On a more serious note though I have often awaken in the morning to tracks at both doors of the house as if they came to be let in and I don't have anything of interest to draw them here. They're just here. Istepped out the door one morning last winter to head to work and there was one not 10 yards away standing on the frozen pond in the garden. Lord knows what he was looking for? I think they come to it at night before freeze up to drink. I have had Hungarian Partridge in the rocks on the ponds edge drinking from it so don't see why a yote wouldn't? Anyways load up the varmint gun and wait at first light....
On a more serious note though I have often awaken in the morning to tracks at both doors of the house as if they came to be let in and I don't have anything of interest to draw them here. They're just here. Istepped out the door one morning last winter to head to work and there was one not 10 yards away standing on the frozen pond in the garden. Lord knows what he was looking for? I think they come to it at night before freeze up to drink. I have had Hungarian Partridge in the rocks on the ponds edge drinking from it so don't see why a yote wouldn't? Anyways load up the varmint gun and wait at first light....
Sure your pond isn't of ACME decent???
the spank
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Acme instant garden pond! Just add water!
Bigfoot 870
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Consider it as a bonus hunting opportunity.
the spank
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Just add water........hmmm.
Are you sure that this isn't what you saw??
Geezus that thing is ugly enough without the accoutrements!!
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Canid's noses are 10K times more sensitive than a human's. They can smell food up to 3 miles away and can home in like radar.
I know they can smell 400 yards down wind on a 5-6 mph wind because I've been busted in a ghillie suit that far. They can smell magnitudes farther on a regular 10-12 MPH wind.
I sometimes think that in a strong North wind a coyote in Florida could smell you. Their nose is their strongest characteristic AND their biggest flaw. We've killed many around chicken houses as they are used to all the human activity and scent. They even hang around close to watch the trucks come and go.
I sometimes think that in a strong North wind a coyote in Florida could smell you. Their nose is their strongest characteristic AND their biggest flaw. We've killed many around chicken houses as they are used to all the human activity and scent. They even hang around close to watch the trucks come and go.
I trap yotes for their fur on a cow ranchers property. I usually have one bait pile in an opening surrounded by trees. I usually pre bait before setting snares so they get comfortable with coming in and out and establish trails. I also set up game cams to see what is going on. Anyways... I have had yotes find the bait in less than 12hrs and have even had a full road kill deer disappear in less than 36hrs. ... I have also had a roadkill deer not get touched for a month, just by birds, that when discovered was gone shortly. And another one that was picked at slowly by only one yote at a time. So...I have no idea how well they smell at a distance. But when more than one finds it they fight and attract others. On the bait that was slowly picked at, I only got 4 all winter. At the one that was gone in less than 36 hrs, I got 26. I also have video of yotes elsewhere on the property with no activity within a day at the bait. I think they wander around randomly and it's a numbers game. There are a lot of them out there all walking around and eventually one will come across something that interests them.
They certainly smell well, no doubt about that. But I doubt they use it to locate food at a great distance in the same way a shark follows blood in the water.
They certainly smell well, no doubt about that. But I doubt they use it to locate food at a great distance in the same way a shark follows blood in the water.
fingers284
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No doubt Yotes can get a wiff of something a long ways downwind but I think sound has more of a bearing on them hitting a carcass than anything. A carcass that has a noisy flock of magpies (their the babies that can find sh!t in a hurry) ravens or crows will attract quicker attention than smell.
Magpies are incredible. I just butchered a deer last night and put the boned out meat on the back deck to chill overnight . That meat is completely covered and hidden from open view but this morn. shortly after daylight when I got up there was already a flock of 6 bird trying to get access to that meat
Magpies are incredible. I just butchered a deer last night and put the boned out meat on the back deck to chill overnight . That meat is completely covered and hidden from open view but this morn. shortly after daylight when I got up there was already a flock of 6 bird trying to get access to that meat
