Coon carcasses on bait piles

Anyone use coon carcasses on their coyote bait piles?

Better baits out there!

Crows and eagles will eat them when there is 2 feet of snow. Bobcats will cover them up. Coyotes may take a look and pee on them but won't eat them. Never could figure out why some people would eat them when coyotes won't. LOL

Everything else gets eaten before the 'coons.

Some years ago I had a bait pile going on the family property,I started with 2 beaver then had about 12-15 'coon carcasses on top of the beaver.Nothing touched them for awhile then we had a hard freeze and a little snow.2 coyotes came along and dug under the mountain of coon and frozen ground to get to the beaver,never once touching a coon.They came back periodically digging for more of the beaver.When the beaver were gone so were they.Later the crows,ravens and other birds were on it picked on it all winter,I never saw where the coyotes returned.I've found coon makes an attractant,but once found predators lose interest in it fast.

They don't get touched here. Birds will peck the fat but won't touch the meat (here). And it has to be middle of winter before they hit the fat, even.

In Northern Wisconsin, I had both fisher and black bear eat coon along with ravens and bald eagles. Coyotes seemed very reluctant until food got scarce.

Grinners & Coon always the last to go.

Farm cats and possums eat them here, , nothing else that I have witnessed.




Charlie

Otter for me

They work just fine out here.

southerners and possums are the only thing other than raptors that eat em.

Grinners & Coon Otters always the last to go.
Here, I fixed it for you.

yep, otters always last.

Chickens will pick them into a skeleton here in just a few days the yotes seldom touch them!

Will hogs eat them?

Yes. There was a farmer near here that took all my coon carcasses to feed his hogs years ago. They were gone in minutes when thrown in the pen with the hogs. It was a gruesome site.

I figgered they would,I seen hogs eat a puss eyed frozen cow head.

I can catch fisher & marten with 'coon for bait. About 10 years ago I caught my first two fisher using 'coon for bait. In the past four years I have caught 3 or 4 'coon in my coyote sets. I always use them for bait and they seem to work as good as beaver. Note the 'coon leg in the box.

Possums and coon will lay on the roadsides here and eventually just become grease spots. Nothing, not even crows will touch them. Deer, rabbits, etc. Though when roadkill get drug off and cleaned up by scavengers but not coon or possum.

Get eaten here.
Black headed vultures and eagles.
Heck even otters get picked clean pretty quick.
Have had as many as 8 eagles at once on my pile, but bh vultures usually drive them off pretty fast.

I will second that......fisher go nuts over the coon liver.

I put em out. Little birds and big birds pick at the fat. Nothing like live bait at the pile. They go slow so they last a while where Beaver and muskrat are gone in a day if not tied down.

I used them for wolves a few years ago and they disappeared . something was eating them.

A lot of animals won't eat coons -- until they are hungry.