coyote question

[pporonto]

My buddy shot a doe near Rogers City this week. It was underneath his blind and even though he hit it in a good area, it missed vital organs and took off. This was at dusk. Could not find it that night. marked the spot and went back in the morning and found it. Coyotes had eaten its hind quarters. Would you all still eat the rest... He is bring the back straps to deer camp in a couple of weeks and I am kinda grossed out:lol:

[Reel_Screamer86]

My buddy shot a doe near Rogers City this week. It was underneath his blind and even though he hit it in a good area, it missed vital organs and took off. This was at dusk. Could not find it that night. marked the spot and went back in the morning and found it. Coyotes had eaten its hind quarters. Would you all still eat the rest... He is bring the back straps to deer camp in a couple of weeks and I am kinda grossed out:lol:

I personally wouldnt touch it let alone eat it. With all the disease's out there not a chance, the coyotes can have that one...

btw- Just when we think were at the top of the food chain !!!:lol:

[fasthunter]

Isn't nothing cooking can't kill!!!:evil: Then again I would eat just about anything. Just put on hotsauce!!:lol::lol::lol:

[doublelunger35]

I wouldn't eat it

[outdoor junkie]

I wouldn't eat after my dog let alone a filthy coyote. But I'm no biologist, you might be safe.

[soggybtmboys]

Think I would have to pass on that one. Canines lick their own butts and other areas. Mange, distemper, rabies, bad breath............naaa just shoot a fresh one and get it before the coy dogs do.

[Partikle]

When in doubt - throw it out. It's not worth taking a chance and being sick.

[benster]

I would think you would be fine. If it was only the hind quarters that were eaten and the hide is still covering the rest of the animal it should be fine. I would worry more about the temp. overnight that the deer sat? As for disease, and I'm not sure, How would it spread in the deer with no blood flow? I have had this happen before and saved what could be saved and i'm fine (except for the hair loss, the studdeeerriinnggg, memor.....los....., slight twitch and thoes darn voices SHUT UP ALREADY!) Just my thouhgts.

[joel009]

Canine mouths are cleaner than human. I had the same thing happen to me a couple years back on a nice 8 pt. Something ate at the exit wound site and even though I found it the next day early and it was 40 that night it smelled tainted. I gutted it (still warm inside) and washed it in the creek but it still smelled a little spoiled. I had sausage and jerky made out of the whole thing, it came out fine. Cooking kills a lot and hot sauce goes good on anything (try it on the old lady!)

[marksman72]

I would pass, but again it's your digestive system you have to answer to. :bloos:

[Hespler]

I was thinking yea eat it, till soggybtmboys mentioned the licking there own butts thing:lol: and the dooooo daaaaaads.......yotes 1 hunter 0

[Llewellin]

From what I have been told before, after the yotes feed a night on something and if there is food or meat left to eat, they will piss on it to keep other animals away from it. I wouldn't eat it.

[cole1lc]

From what I have been told before, after the yotes feed a night on something and if there is food or meat left to eat, they will piss on it to keep other animals away from it. I wouldn't eat it.

I'm with him... I had a buddy shoot a monster 9pnt and had to wait til morning to track it. When he found it the yotes had got to it and peed all over it. It smelled awful and he was actually throwing up while caping it out!:sick: I wouldn't want to eat any meat that wasn't fully covered by hide.

[sfw1960]

Dude...
I think you're foaming at the mouth!
:yikes::yikes::yikes:

[Molson]

I left the rest for the 'yotes.

I felt bad about leaving it, but to me.... Its not worth the risk.

[M1Garand]

We had the same thing happen many years ago when dad shot a deer near dusk. We had to retreive it the next morning and the hind quarters were eaten also. We still took it and had no problems, just trim off those areas and cook properly, it'll be fine.

[Final Cast]

Your call. My dad shot a doe last year and we didn't find her till the morning. Yotes nibbled on her hind quaters also. We processed what we could and threw out the rest. No issues so far.

[jcurtis]

Regardless of whether you decide to eat the meat or not you need to tag the animal. More then likely the meat would be just fine if it were properly cleaned and prepared.

[UP POWER]

I'bve eaten deer and elk both after 'yotes had some. Ate elk this past year after a grizzly had eaten/buried some. Just trim it up good and clean like you always would. As long as the temps didn't spoil it, you should be good to go. No sense letting backstraps go to waste.

[Whit1]

Several years ago I shot a buck late one evening and lost the blood trail. The next morning I hunted (firearms) the same stand and took a dandy 10 pt. buck. After gutting the large bodied buster I took up the bloodtrail of the smaller buck that I had shot the previous evening. I found it within 20 yds. of where I had lost the trail the night before.

The second buck had a hole eaten through the chest cavity that is the sign of a bobcat feeding. I tagged the deer........as I had also done with the 10 pt...........and took both deer home for hanging, skinning and cutting up.

I cut out all of the area around the bobcat eaten hole in the smaller buck and processed the rest of the meat as usual. It was fine eating.

Go ahead and process the meat of the deer in question just as you would any other. Be sure to cut out any ofal and blood tainted meat as they is the cause of "gamey" tasting venison.

[Big Bear 44]

I would also be concerned about flies and there filth maggot larve, not to mention any other insects that may have gotten in through the openings. That would bother me even more than eating after a rabid coyote. If thats all I had to eat than yes. Otherwise it would be just a memory and a picture for me.

[mseymour]

Shot a doe last weekend that we couldn't find in a downpour that evening. I went back to the same spot next day and heard a crow 100 yards off. I found the deer with the ass end eaten out and the rest untouched. We salvaged tenderloins, and font shoulders, any risk in eating a coyote scavenged deer?

[RIVERAT]

Shot a doe last weekend that we couldn't find in a downpour that evening. I went back to the same spot next day and heard a crow 100 yards off. I found the deer with the ass end eaten out and the rest untouched. We salvaged tenderloins, and font shoulders, any risk in eating a coyote scavenged deer?

No, but get rid of the carcass ASAP or the 'yotes will screw up your hunting big time. Don't give them any reason to want to hang around.

[M1Garand]

Process it properly and you should be all right. There was a recent thread on this not too long ago:

http://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/showthread.php?t=205256

[fairfax1]

It may not have been coyotes.....depending on how much meat was removed. It could have been racoons.

I have heavily forested riverbottom ground where the racoon population is absolutely booming. In every sit for deer this year I have witnessed at least 4 racoons coming down out of den trees and ambling off through the woods. That has not been seen before....one, or two, OK, but not 4, 5 or 6 per night.

Anyway, a friend hunting there last week solidly hit a doe as evening came on. We went home to change our clothes and grab a bite then returned to pick up her blood trail. Two hours after the hit we found her and scared away racoons from the body. Which already had it's anus area eaten out.

[answerguy8]

I just had to poke my head into this thread and see who is trying to plant coyotes.:confused:

[antsp1]

I try to plant everyone that I see.

:D

[Critter]

I try to plant everyone that I see.

:D
:yeahthat:

[TrekJeff]

A buddy had the same thing happen a few years ago, yotes ate the anus out of it.

Regardless if the yotes had a disease, as long at the blood wasn't pumping though the deer/it was dead, then if the dogs had anything, it would be centralized at the flesh tears in the quarters.

Anyone who thinks of throwing out back straps should have to spend a day "yes ma'aming and pouring/making coffee for the governor:evil: