Had a rancher put out a horse around a week ago on a dead pile out on the edge of a hayfield not really close to anything. I’ve sat near a haystack which is 600 yds away to see any comings and goings a couple times and not seen a thing. Prolly 45 minutes each time. Any other suggestions.
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- Thread starter Heymartay
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Several years ago, we dragged a 2000# dead bull about 100 yards from one pasture into the adjacent pasture in which we could hunt w/permission of rancher. Sat on that thing off and on for several weeks and not even the birds would touch it. Never did get a credible explanation.
Yotarunner
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When it comes to cattle for bait it will often depend on what they were given in the way of drugs before they died. At our feedlot we will have a chronic steer that just refuses to stay alive no matter what we give it and when it finally dies it will sit in the dead pile for weeks before coyotes even take a bite. The next steer that dies from bloat or broken leg will get put right next to the untouched animal and cleaned right up no problem.
Yotarunner
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Oh weird
is it fairly warm in your neck of the woods? I know here for whatever reason the coyotes really drop off eating dead things when it gets into the warmer months.
Yotarunner
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Well that's super interesting
out here your lucky to get a roadkill for bait sometimes as coyotes will clean up a dead whitetail in one night! Possibly an abundance of better food somewhere else?Spurchaser
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Coyotes down here will hit my hog bait (peanuts and corn) but will ignore dead hogs and sometimes dead deer. I have a spot I dump all my dead critters and buzzards clean most up, but sometimes they won’t even touch a hog or deer.
Had a rancher kill a cow. Left it over night. Didn’t think anything would eat it. Coyotes are the entire rear in one night. Next day rancher took the cow and moved it into a barn. It sat in there for a month saving it for us to get out here. He then put it out in a bait area where they throw carcasses and deer guts from hunting etc. So far the birds haven’t even touched it. Weird
wolverines
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Put out a cell cam on it (like a Tactacam Reveal) and you can monitor anything that visits the carcass in real time.
Spurchaser
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Whatever happened? I’ve seen deer and hogs here never get touched by anything, buzzards included. Our coyotes won’t touch a pig and sometimes deer.
Got back a few weeks ago and been busy. The rancher put the horse out probably 3/4 mile back fro the farm so his dogs wouldn’t get in to it and we’ve had some snow and with a knee with a Baker cyst haven’t got all the way back there.Did do a daytime call but it was in the high 30’s and nothing showed. Tough to walk right now through the snow, don’t want to really screw up my knee. Another rancher is running 6 Pyrenees in that area so think coyotes are scarce. Saw 3 chasing a coyote couple weeks ago and that coyote was flying low to get away.