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[WALNUTFARMER]

This morning when I drove by where I put the coyote I shot Saturday. I noticed it was drug twenty feet over and was missing a leg. I stopped cheked for tracks couldn't find anything. Then this afternoon I shot a coyote out of the same feild. I think maybe he was the one that ate his buddies leg. Do coyotes eat coyotes?  2coyote_001email.jpg   127.72K   48 downloads  2coyote_005email.jpg   76.79K   37 downloads  2coyote_012email.jpg   116.07K   39 downloads

[Braz]

From everything I have read, I don't believe so. But hell, what do I know. Let's get an expert to answer.

[Jared Plumlee]

im no expert but i would assume they would...they eat damn near anything and everything,,,a dead yote laying around is an easy meal...however out in our neck of the woods as im sure ur aware there is a ton of wild dogs and id bet they would chew on one too...i dont know what else we have out here that would be able to drag one around like that..btw have u ever called up any of them wild dogs when u were out callin a yote? i have a couple times

[Bozsik]

I would say no. I have seen many coyotes dumped in various locations and nothing seems to feed on them but insects and other invertebrates. I think it could have been chewed by dogs though. You don't have homeless people living in your orchard do you? db

[Moe]

Funny.......On my last trip to the east side we got to a spot where I dumped 5 coyotes just a couple of weeks before and all that remained of the carcasses was some loose fur. No skeletons, nothing. Even if small animals had gotten into the carcasses there should've been some bones laying around. I suspect aliens.

[calibrad]

i had dumped one that i had shot a few weeks back. i was in the area so i checked on it and there was nothing but skull and spine everything else was chewed up. there was fur laying around that had been pulled off but it sure looked like other dogs to me imho.

[ehd]

I might guess that it was an eagle that fed on it by the pics. i have never heard or seen a coyote feed off anther coyote. Food doesnt seem to be short supply.

[PredatorMaster]

I think they do they eat almost anything.

[Rockhound]

Here in the Mid Missouri, we have hard winters, and coyotes will eat just about anything, including there own kind, Ive seen it", so I would guess, if hungry enough they would do it enywhere"

[tawnoper]

Ravens will make pretty quick work out of em too.

[WALNUTFARMER]

Hey guys thanks for your input. I really liked the aliens and homeless people suggestions.

[Jared Plumlee]

I might guess that it was an eagle that fed on it by the pics. i have never heard or seen a coyote feed off anther coyote. Food doesnt seem to be short supply.

very unlikely in our neck of the woods...but we do have buzzards and ravens....

[Shoot-it]

Hey guys thanks for your input. I really liked the aliens and homeless people suggestions.

I think is funny to. I just noticed you have 4 coyotes in that picture at first I just saw 2 you have been doing good is that all from that dairy.

[Thumper Dunker]

Wild pigs will eat them . seen evidance . I think a coyote thats unable to hunt would. I know the big males or a pair will kill trespasers.Im thinking like others a big hawk or eagle took the leg . And good shooting on the yotes.

[peeker seeker]

I think so but that looks like somthing els. Mabe a racoon or something. Most dogs (yoteencluded ) will go for the guts first . Hawks will eat them to eat what thay can and leave the rest. Nice pics and way to thin out the cyoties.

[Frank]

While I have never personally seen them do it, I have read & been told by quite a few others that they do eat their own kind. Many animials will, so gotta believe a coyote definitely would then. I've seen mice eat their own kind. YUK! LOLFrank

[jacobpaschall]

im no expert but i would assume they would...they eat damn near anything and everything,,,a dead yote laying around is an easy meal...however out in our neck of the woods as im sure ur aware there is a ton of wild dogs and id bet they would chew on one too...i dont know what else we have out here that would be able to drag one around like that..btw have u ever called up any of them wild dogs when u were out callin a yote? i have a couple times

Jared,I have called in wild dogs while trying to call coyotes around here. It is pretty common, not too long ago Craig said he called in two dogs within feet of him before they knew what was going on. Dogs are pretty stupid, it's almost unfair. Good work by the way Craig, see if you can add a cat to that pile after Thursday.

[Quade]

I went back a week later to see the first one I shot...It was ripped apart...There was nothing left but bones and the head...the front legs were about 10 feet away.. and there wascoyote scat all around...

[tawnoper]

I've seen ravens shread coyotes. A lot of places I hunt coyotes also have a lot of ravens flying around, real common to call in the ravens. I've gone back to kill sites a day or two later and all that's left behind is a bunch of fur in the bush's and pcs of the carcass scattered around, and alot of raven tracks. We have skinned out a coyote and bobcat and disposed of the carcasses, went back a couple days later and the cat is nowhere to be found yet the coyote is still there or nearby, along with a lot of coyote tracks.

[300wsm]

A few years ago I was spending alot of time in the Greeely Hill area of the mother lode, had a cabin to stay at anytime I wanted, I hung a yote on a ranchers fence one morning and three days later I shot another yote pulling on the carcas. I do think they will feed on their own. I no longer have the cabin access ,I guess good things don't last forever.,,300wsm

[lif2fsh]

They do up here in about 3 days only thing left was some fur.

[Hutch]

Without a doubt, this is the work of the Chupacabre! You need to leave 3 or 4 young goats out there for the Chupacabre to prey on, or it'll continue to feed on your dead yotes. You wouldn't want that to happen, now would you.

[H&Knightreaper]

In a heart beat. Coyotes will eat another coyote, even from the same pack. I have shot coyote over a previous days kill. Randy and his pet coyote trained to point and retrieve pheasants.

[SLYoteBoy]

Wow , at first I didnt read the post , I thought the first picture was dmage from a rifle. I was going to ask wtf you shot it with. I would say yea they probably eat each other.

[Youngster18]

heck ya they do!! i've seen them do it. killed a coyote while deer hunting. it was all manged up so i left it where it was out in the middle of the medow, so i made to the ridge and that coyote had another one eating on it already.

[Moe]

Ravens will make pretty quick work out of em too.

This trip to the east side temps were in the single digits. For some reason there were a lot of road killed jackrabbits and on each blood splotch there were 6 - 8 ravens feeding. I'm sure the coyotes I dumped were picked over pretty good by them but could ravens carry off all of the bones? Doesn't seem likely.When I lived in SoCal I dumped one hell of a lot of dead critters and sometimes went by those spots. The bones would've been drug around by small animals but there would've been some bones left to find. Strange.

[Frank]

Yeah, I've gone back on some of the coyotes we killed approx a week or so later, & on a few of them you couldn't hardly find a piece of hair left... no bones, notta! I mean nothing left even close to the kill site. Does make ya wonder even "why" larger critters would carry off heavy skull & jaw bones anyway? Rodents and such feed on the bones for nurishment etc. However???Frank

[H&Knightreaper]

Hey maybe it's Sasquatch!

[Bozsik]

Just got back from NV this evening. The carcass from the yote I skinned was completely picked clean, but not a bone was broken. No coyotes had fed on it. I figure most of the work must have been done by Ravens. Hey Frank, if you came back to your coyotes and nothing was left, not even hair or skull, it wasn't coyotes that moved it They aren't going to eat the feet and skulls and other peripheral tissues. Don't know who was moving your dead yotes, but I don't think they were being eaten by coyotes. Maybe, but I doubt it.db

[ShooterJohn]

Hey maybe it's Sasquatch!

I think it was a chupacabra!