What to do with coyote carcass?

[LegatoRedrivers]

So, moved a few months ago to a couple of acres in a more rural area, outside of city limits and surrounded by woods and farmland. Heard coyotes a few times, but sounded a ways away and hadn't bothered about 'em yet.

Last night I heard 'em again, and they sounded a lot closer than before, so I jumped out of bed and took a look out the window, to find one standing outside the window on our property, not 50 yards from our bedroom window. He took off - I wasn't wasn't wearing pants at the time, so I wasn't chomping at the bit to go after him. I also didn't think I'd be able to get a safe angle on him where he was standing - best to leave it alone.

If these things decide to make a habit of coming on the property, and I can get a safe shot at them, I'll take it. Last thing I want is desperate coyotes coming right up to my back door when it starts getting cold. My question is this - what to do with the carcass afterwards? My Grandpa taught me to hunt, and always told me that you don't kill an animal without using it, and all I've hunted in the past are deer. I figured it would be a good opportunity to practice tanning, but what about the rest of the carcass? I don't want to just leave it lay, for fear it will just attract more coyotes. I guess I could bury it, but I don't want my property to become a coyote graveyard over the next few years.

Coyote hunters - what do you do with the carcass?

 

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[phylodog]

I let em rot

 

[KittySlayer]

Wood Chipper

 

[buckstopshere]

Coyotes will eat their own so you could use it as bait to hit the others. Of course, that creates more carcasses to deal with. Skinning them out and using the pelt for tanning practice is a good call. You could butcher it, grind up the meat and feed it to chickens if you have them. You could try feeding it to your dog as dog food.

Or, skin it and practice your tanning which means you got some use out of it. If you don't want a graveyard, funeral pyre will do fine.

 

[LegatoRedrivers]

Coyotes will eat their own so you could use it as bait to hit the others. Of course, that creates more carcasses to deal with. Skinning them out and using the pelt for tanning practice is a good call. You could butcher it, grind up the meat and feed it to chickens if you have them. You could try feeding it to your dog as dog food.

Or, skin it and practice your tanning which means you got some use out of it. If you don't want a graveyard, funeral pyre will do fine.

Won't have chickens until next year, and I'm sure my fiance won't let me feed it to the dog. That 3 year old boxer is her baby - spoiled as anything, but very protective of the lady. Which is a good thing in my book.

Any experience on how bad the pyre would smell?

 

[dusty88]

Is there a corner of your property that doesn't border on any neighbor's homes? If you can get it far away so that nobody has to deal with the smell, the flies and vultures will take it down to bones in 2-5 days, depending on the weather.

 

[planedriver]

If you have or know someone who has an outdoor wood boiler it will burn him to ashes overnight. Don't ask how I know.

Come to think of it I haven't seen my ex-wife lately......

 

[Kurr]

If you are inclined another option for disposal might be Taxidermy.net, they have a buy/sell/wanted section.

 

[gvsugod]

I let em rot

Yep, we may take the pelt if its a good pelt. Otherwise we just toss em in a hole in our swamp.

 

[huntall50]

If you want to kill more, stake em out, if you want to discourage others, hang his carcass on a fence post. Or just let it lie, and it will take care of itself.

 

[Mark-DuCo]

The one I shot last year during bow season laid about 50 yards from my stand for a good 2 months before anything touched it at all. I don't know if the other animals were scared of it or what.

 

[CountryBoy19]

Coyotes will eat their own so you could use it as bait to hit the others.

This is what I do... of course, I shoot coyotes in silence from my bedroom window. So as far as they know one of their friends just dropped dead from natural causes... and he looks a bit tasty... carcass is normally gone within 2 day. If you are actively hunting them and they are "on to you" I'm not sure they will come back to eat the carcass. They are very smart creatures...

 

[Kart29]

If you kill it in the legal fur taking season you could sell the carcass in the round to a licensed fur buyer.

After I skin mine I just throw the carcass in the garbage can and let the truck haul it away.

 

[PappyD]

Fargo?

 

[Fargo]

Fargo?

You can't prove nuthin!

 

[buckstopshere]

Won't have chickens until next year, and I'm sure my fiance won't let me feed it to the dog. That 3 year old boxer is her baby - spoiled as anything, but very protective of the lady. Which is a good thing in my book.

Any experience on how bad the pyre would smell?

I can't say my friend. I've never cremated a yote but I can't imagine it would smell bad after it's fur coat was removed. Heck, the smell might make ya hungry

I did do a pyre for an opossum one night and didn't notice any pungent smell for what that's worth. It was fur and all.

 

[Leadeye]

Usually get some during deer season, they come to those doe can calls. Out here carrion of any type doesn't last long.

 

[diver dan]

they are good to feed other critters if you can, coons etc.