Turkeygirl Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 While out looking for sheds yesterday, I was on the edge of an old apple orchard in this swamp, look down off this small ridge and see fur and bone. Go down to find the skull and part of the vertebrae of a coyote...then a few feet away more fur and the rest off the back bone with hind legs still attached. I don't think he was shot, no foot prints around... kinda weird but I'm guessing either the ;;ast couple weeks of cold weather and the fact that with 2 feet of hard crusted snow, he couldn't get anything and starved, or the pack turned on him because they were really hungy? Or he was just sick and died? I found fox tracks that came right up to our manure/compost pile, took some stuff and dragged it back to the woods. Our compost pile is only like 75-100 yards from the house. Any ideas why you think he died? I know we hear a pack howl up there in the summer and fall... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest onecoyote Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote Coyotes don't starve to death to often. How do you know it was a coyote? It could have been a dog the coyotes eat? I have never heard of a pack of coyotes killing and eating another coyote. It is very rare that a coyote would eat another coyote. That coyote could have died of alot of things, parvo, mange and a ton of other things that kill coyotes, including bullets, somebody could have wounded it. Just some food for thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterDWL Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote i dont know how he might have died i just wish the ones around here would get the same fate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest onecoyote Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote If you like to hunt coyotes, why would you want them all dead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest michael_bolton Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote I think he meant that he would like to kill them all for himself.....no sharing here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted March 13, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote Oh, I'm positive it's a coyote...fur type...skull structure...hind legs still there... In my cons. bio class I took at college, we were shown a photo of a coyote chasing a fox done in the winter....if they are really hungry, I wouldn't put it past them to turn on each other...but I would say he probably was old and sick and died...we'eve had some bad weather the last month. Thing is, it wasn't there 2 weeks ago, so it happened within the last 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest malikai Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote [ QUOTE ] i dont know how he might have died i just wish the ones around here would get the same fate [/ QUOTE ] Me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote You say you dont think it was shot. Sounds like you might have answered your own question to me Ruth. Would think if the yote was old or sick, that would be a likely cause of death. Unless it was hit by a car or something. Really no way to know though for sure, just be thankfull it is gone, a few less dead fawns this spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutz4bucks Posted March 13, 2007 Report Share Posted March 13, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote Coyotes die of natural causes too.. Old age, diseases, any number of things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pintail711 Posted March 14, 2007 Report Share Posted March 14, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote [ QUOTE ] You say you dont think it was shot. Sounds like you might have answered your own question to me Ruth. Would think if the yote was old or sick, that would be a likely cause of death. Unless it was hit by a car or something. Really no way to know though for sure, just be thankfull it is gone, a few less dead fawns this spring. [/ QUOTE ] word to that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HoppeMan Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 Re: Found dead coyote [ QUOTE ] i dont know how he might have died i just wish the ones around here would get the same fate [/ QUOTE ] Yeah same here Starvation, maybe. Can happen when, as you mentioned, there is lots of snow on the ground. The pack turned on him, probably not. Take care, Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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