Strictly Trapping


No Profanity *** No Flaming *** No Advertising *** No Anti Trappers *** No Politics
No Non-Target Catches *** No Links to Anti-trapping Sites *** No Avoiding Profanity Filter


Home~Trap Talk~ADC Forum~Trap Shed~Wilderness Trapping~International Trappers~Fur Handling

Auction Forum~Trapper Tips~Links~Gallery~Basic Sets~Convention Calendar~Chat~ Trap Collecting Forum

Trapper's Humor~Strictly Trapping~Fur Buyers Directory~Mugshots~Fur Sale Directory~Wildcrafting

Trapper's Tales~Words From The Past~Legends~Archives~Kids Forum~Lure Formulators Forum


~~~ Dobbins' Products Catalog ~~~


Trading Post
(Please support F&T Trading Post, our sponsor for the Trapping Only Forum)



TrappersPost
Please support Trappers post, a sponsor of the Strictly Trapping Forum



Print Thread
Hop To
Page 3 of 4 1 2 3 4
Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: ] #7743374
12/14/22 09:37 AM
12/14/22 09:37 AM
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,004
alabama
steeltraps Offline
trapper
steeltraps  Offline
trapper

Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,004
alabama
Mark. Looks like I am done for the rest of year. Home now working on cabin. Meet with power company yesterday day. Will need LOTS of poles to get power to cabin. Starting to think = was bad idea to put cabin in middle of 37 acres I will head back to West Texas about the = 29 th Hope to get power and 3 loads of gravel in to cabin in that time. I need 2 weeks off any way. After the coyote in the pasture the otherday that makes = 503 coyotes for me this year. Central/West Texas was mainly snare work. I know exactly what you mean about riding all day and seeing only 1 set of tracks. One day in November = since water holes can be key in West Central Texas. I walked and checked about 8 water tanks and a dry lake bed. Walked 5.8 miles according to Iphone. NEVER saw a track

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7743629
12/14/22 03:46 PM
12/14/22 03:46 PM
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,057
Marion Kansas
Y
Yes sir Offline OP
"Callie's little brother"
Yes sir  Offline OP
"Callie's little brother"
Y

Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,057
Marion Kansas
Had a heifer die a week ago that I personally treated with antibiotics about 2 weeks. She died within 200 yds of the dead cow that wasn't treated that I moved there and the coyotes didn't touch. The heifer I treated got hit by coyotes immediately.

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7743658
12/14/22 04:40 PM
12/14/22 04:40 PM
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 3,355
SD
Boone Liane Offline
trapper
Boone Liane  Offline
trapper

Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 3,355
SD
I’ve had lots of cows passed over.

I’ve never had a deer passed over. Ever.

If a deer ain’t getting slicked up, they just haven’t found it yet!


As for coyotes not emptying out of big chunks of country to come to a good food source (yes, even leaving their “territory”) come up North in a average to bad winter about January! Not uncommon for every coyote (or the lions share of them) within 10-20 miles to be stacked up where the food is!

Last edited by Boone Liane; 12/14/22 04:44 PM.
Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: bearcat2] #7756482
12/28/22 11:16 AM
12/28/22 11:16 AM
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 570
Communist State Of New York
Archeryguy Offline
trapper
Archeryguy  Offline
trapper

Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 570
Communist State Of New York
Originally Posted by bearcat2

I will say I have better luck with deer than anything else on getting the canines to hit it, and they seem much less leery of whole deer than bones and scraps. They will hit bones and scraps at times, but seem much leerier.


I put a pile of bones from the deer processor out last Friday. Today is Wednesday and the coyotes have been pounding it. 100 yards away is road killed deer I dragged up a month ago. Fox have hit it but no coyotes. Go figure?

[Linked Image]


Last edited by Archeryguy; 12/28/22 03:37 PM.
Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7756533
12/28/22 12:46 PM
12/28/22 12:46 PM
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,057
Marion Kansas
Y
Yes sir Offline OP
"Callie's little brother"
Yes sir  Offline OP
"Callie's little brother"
Y

Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,057
Marion Kansas
And we wonder why they will walk past a set with a spoonful of bait down a hole and a ton of human scent there sometimes

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7757276
12/29/22 12:41 PM
12/29/22 12:41 PM
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,004
alabama
steeltraps Offline
trapper
steeltraps  Offline
trapper

Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,004
alabama
IF my back quits hurting after 18 hr drive yesterday. I may go check a dead cow or 2 LOL!!

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7757382
12/29/22 02:51 PM
12/29/22 02:51 PM
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,057
Marion Kansas
Y
Yes sir Offline OP
"Callie's little brother"
Yes sir  Offline OP
"Callie's little brother"
Y

Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,057
Marion Kansas
That's a long way to haul dead cows... grin lol

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7758740
12/31/22 01:22 AM
12/31/22 01:22 AM
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
A
AJE Offline
trapper
AJE  Offline
trapper
A

Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
I bet bobcats like dead cows

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7768665
01/11/23 01:57 AM
01/11/23 01:57 AM
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
A
AJE Offline
trapper
AJE  Offline
trapper
A

Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
Originally Posted by Yes sir
And we wonder why they will walk past a set with a spoonful of bait down a hole and a ton of human scent there sometimes

X2

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7769442
01/11/23 11:39 PM
01/11/23 11:39 PM
Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 17,456
Wheaton Ks
L
lee steinmeyer Offline
trapper
lee steinmeyer  Offline
trapper
L

Joined: Oct 2011
Posts: 17,456
Wheaton Ks
Originally Posted by Yes sir
And we wonder why they will walk past a set with a spoonful of bait down a hole and a ton of human scent there sometimes

Seth, you had the wrong teaspoon of bait down the hole! lol. When you get it figured out, ol hoss, let me know! Course by then, the yotes will have changed the rules again! grin


YOU CAN IGNORE REALITY, BUT YOU CANNOT IGNORE THE CONSEQUENCES OF IGNORING REALITY.

http://www.lptraplinesupply.com
Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7769449
01/11/23 11:49 PM
01/11/23 11:49 PM
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 679
michigan
C
coyote 1 Offline
trapper
coyote 1  Offline
trapper
C

Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 679
michigan
I have no answers. I'm trapping a farm now that has two calf dead piles. Only one calf out of both piles has been touched along with some deer carcasses with a little meat on them after butchering. One deer was taken with a hip bone sticking out of the hide and infection had set in, the coyotes haven't touched that one. It just seems odd that only one calf has been eaten out of 20 or so carcasses.


United we stand,divided we fall.
Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: coyote 1] #7769496
01/12/23 01:21 AM
01/12/23 01:21 AM
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
A
AJE Offline
trapper
AJE  Offline
trapper
A

Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
Originally Posted by coyote 1
I have no answers. I'm trapping a farm now that has two calf dead piles. Only one calf out of both piles has been touched along with some deer carcasses with a little meat on them after butchering. One deer was taken with a hip bone sticking out of the hide and infection had set in, the coyotes haven't touched that one. It just seems odd that only one calf has been eaten out of 20 or so carcasses.

Maybe they are too froze

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7769519
01/12/23 02:06 AM
01/12/23 02:06 AM
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 679
michigan
C
coyote 1 Offline
trapper
coyote 1  Offline
trapper
C

Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 679
michigan
Definitely not frozen. It's been unseasonably warm here lately. I put in a couple dirt hole sets today, usually can't even think about that this time of year.


United we stand,divided we fall.
Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7769589
01/12/23 07:38 AM
01/12/23 07:38 AM
Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 570
Communist State Of New York
Archeryguy Offline
trapper
Archeryguy  Offline
trapper

Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 570
Communist State Of New York
I also think that weather is a huge factor. When we have a couple of feet of snow on the ground for long periods combined with very cold temps then the coyotes will absolutely stay on dead piles until completely gone. They are also much easier to catch even with leaving human disturbances in the snow. The last few winters have been incredibly mild and snow free and the coyotes are way more finicky about what they will and will not eat and definitely more wary of sets.

Last edited by Archeryguy; 01/12/23 07:39 AM.
Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7769806
01/12/23 01:04 PM
01/12/23 01:04 PM
Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 2,930
E central Il
G
Golf ball Offline
trapper
Golf ball  Offline
trapper
G

Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 2,930
E central Il
Wanna be I don’t know if I will have any answers for you , but I’m getting ready to go on a trapping trip with a buddy of mine just south of you. He mostly uses wild hog meat for bait . I’m very curious as to why hogs go untouched in your area. It may be apples and oranges but hogs in a dead pit around here are as good a draw as any. Dead cows are rare in these parts , but when I find out about one it’s usually already cleaned up . I think it’s funny how deer and deer parts ( liver, lungs ) make up some of my best baits and yet a deer carcass can sometimes lay for weeks untouched.
Yup , never say never, never say always!
Thanks, Slim

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #7771514
01/14/23 01:16 AM
01/14/23 01:16 AM
Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
A
AJE Offline
trapper
AJE  Offline
trapper
A

Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 10,007
WI - Wisconsin
There's a dead cow on a farm I know of and a dead calf probably 70 yards away from it. Yotes seem to like the calf more than the adult. I haven't noticed any bobcat tracks at it yet

Last edited by AJE; 01/14/23 01:17 AM.
Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #8031741
12/26/23 07:04 PM
12/26/23 07:04 PM
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,057
Marion Kansas
Y
Yes sir Offline OP
"Callie's little brother"
Yes sir  Offline OP
"Callie's little brother"
Y

Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 10,057
Marion Kansas
Ttt

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #8031804
12/26/23 08:21 PM
12/26/23 08:21 PM
Joined: Feb 2023
Posts: 20
Malakoff, Tx
B
Busch56 Offline
trapper
Busch56  Offline
trapper
B

Joined: Feb 2023
Posts: 20
Malakoff, Tx
Years ago when I was a young teenager, my family I were in the Texas panhandle for a couple weeks of deer hunting over Christmas break. Which gave me plenty of time to run a decent line on our place. A horse had died earlier that winter pretty close to a water trough but was just about eatin up. In my eyes the coyotes didn’t have much left to chew on other than some bones and rawhide. After a couple days a younger cow in good flesh died roughly 75 yards from the horse. Boy was I pumped. I knew the coyotes had been making rounds by the horse just by looking at tracks on the ground. But to my disappointment the coyotes never touched that cow. I caught 4 coyotes over the length of our trip right around the horse carcass in flat sets within an eyes view of the dead cow that was never touched in 10 days. The weather was very harsh also. It hovered right around freezing for the high for most of the trip. I never could wrap my mind around why the cow wasn’t messed with.

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #8031824
12/26/23 08:47 PM
12/26/23 08:47 PM
Joined: May 2018
Posts: 10,723
SW Georgia
W
Wanna Be Offline
trapper
Wanna Be  Offline
trapper
W

Joined: May 2018
Posts: 10,723
SW Georgia
We had a dead buck floating in the pond in September. The biologist and I drug it and removed the head for testing. I carried the whole carcass to my dumping grounds and it’s just now about gone. Nothing touched it including buzzards.
Had another deer die naturally and nothing has touched it. That was late October and it still smells of death in that area.

First spot was an open brush field. Second area was in a drain so buzzards couldn’t get to that one if they wanted.

30+ hogs had been dumped in the field as well. Buzzards ate 75% of them, the others rotted away. We just have weird finicky coyotes I guess.

Re: Coyotes and dead cows [Re: Yes sir] #8031909
12/26/23 10:19 PM
12/26/23 10:19 PM
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,004
alabama
steeltraps Offline
trapper
steeltraps  Offline
trapper

Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,004
alabama
Originally Posted by Yes sir
Ttt

Here we go. Beating a dead horse again!! Or in this case a dead cow !!! Just kidding Yes Sir. It’s a fine topic. I am waiting to get on some dead cows when = deer hunters leave. Jan 7 th is last day. So on the 8 th O will set some traps around some dead cows. Set 3 traps round a dead deer. Hung in fence. No coyotes yet. Set up a = dead pile today. 3 elk carcasses and 4 mule deer Got 6 traps. Hope to have 1 in the morning. I have to head back to = Sheep Country tomorrow

Page 3 of 4 1 2 3 4
Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

Moderated by  Drifter, Wolfdog91 

Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.1