Coyote Dinner

Watched a show called Meat Eater where these two guys shot a yote, burn't the hair off, scraped it and grilled it on an open fire. Looked like they did a good job but don't think I would do it. Any of you ever eat a yote? They said it tasted like a diver duck.

watch a cooking show one time with my dad ,they were cooking dogs ,they did it the same way ,it look really good when they were done cooking it , no I have never try coyote

What is a diver duck? I don't know much about ducks.

Diver ducks dive into deeper water to feed. Puddle ducks feed in shallower water. You will often see their butts sticking up while they feed.

Diver ducks eat mostly fish. A buddy and I tried to cook a couple one time and the stench was so bad we had to toss them out the front door.

^^^^ this is correct.We call all the diver ducks "saw bills"

I've eaten coyote, its not bad

Thanks for the diver duck explanation.

I don't skin many coyotes any more, I sell them to a middle man who then sells them to Laotians to eat. They will take bad mangy coyotes too. They singe the hair off, then roast them whole with the guts still in them. I skin some of my better coyotes, and they aren't interested in buying those carcasses they want them with the hair on.

Great post!!

I’ve eaten dog. It’s on the order of beef. Needed ketchup.

I have to ask this but some coyotes start to turn a little green bellied fast. Do the Laotians still east those? I think I have a strong stomach but some of those coyotes have such a stench that my mouth is watering just skinning them.

I watch that show too. It did look good. It made me wonder about trying a young one. People say beaver is good too but I have never had it taste remotely good. I think I would try it if someone did a good job cooking it?

After smelling coyotes that I’ve skinned, I’ll pass. I’d have to be pretty hard up to consider eating coyote

A friend of mine made jerky out of a yote once. Once only. Tasted just like it smells.

Bob, I agree with you. I will try almost anything (tried lutefisk and have tried otter), but coyote is just not on my list of things to consider trying.

It was "interesting." I did it in a Thai-style curry dish to try to mask any fishy flavors. The meat itself was the strongest tasting meat I've ever had. It had an almost fermented flavor to it and seemed to clear the nostrils. I ate the whole dish I cooked but will not be trying it again.

I was at a game feed several years ago and tried some beaver, wasn't good. A guy I knew there said try the beaver it's great, last year it was nasty!
All depends on how you make it.

Lol. This thread made me laugh. I needed the laugh.

For years I sold all my possems unskinned but gutted. Got $5.00 to $7.00 each. Black guy bought them, dipped them into scalding hot water, (hair fell out like feathers on a chicken) then he resold them at the Asian market in New York City.

I read that the crew of Lewis and Clark loved young dogs, but would not eat salmon. They ate colts too.

Considering the coyotes around here wont eat a coyote I'm thinking they cant hardly be eatable.

I have had beaver numerous times and have never been disappointed. I've had "pulled beaver", beaver and noodles, beaver stew, etc. Basically anything you would do with a beef roast has worked for me!

I rather eat beaver then any of the other fur bears. less work into fix them up and if fix right will be like beef but less fat. You mix the ground up beaver with the 73% hamburg you will find out it is better then just the hamburger also ,I have not have coyote. I ate possum and coon and muskrat.

When it comes to eating,I will try most anything once,,and have come to the conclusion,,that in general,,most things that eat meat,,dont taste good.

I would eat a Coyote, meat is meat!

A bunch of family and friends get together and we eat something novel on New Year's Day every year. We were going to ear coyote on New Year's Day once, but my friend Chad put a stop to it and coined the phrase "Friends don't let friends eat coyote."

I would like to try mountain lion on New Year's Day, if I could find some.

Keith

Yes, they still eat them. I had some I caught in late Oct. last year over a weekend I laid them in my machine shed in the shade but they still gassed up he bought them to eat.

My nephew was killing some this summer and selling them after hauling them around a couple days in back of his truck.

I have hear that was good and would try it.

Veto Chad I say lol, although I have heard from Uncle Ted Mt Lion is very good.

It's more about how it's cleaned than how it's cooked. If any of the castor juice or sac oil gets on the meat, it makes the meat taste nasty. Beaver meat that has not been contaminated is delicious, like beef.

I agree that properly handled beaver meat is similar to beef.I like muskrat meat also.

Beaver liver and onions is top of the line.

I sure would like to try some, we don't have many up here.

When i clean beaver to eat i skin the area immediately around the castors first then then remove them ,then finnish skinng them

I talked with a guy who did a university study on coyotes, when diseases and parasites came up his reply was they all have something or many things.

I would puke! I hear those people buy the carcasses, I could sell some!

There used to be a guy who posted on here that was into eating, or at least trying, pretty much whatever he caught. I remember he was from Wisconsin, but for the life of me I can't remember what his handle was on here.

It seems he had cooked some coyote once and took it to a bar to see what people thought of the stuff. If memory serves me correctly he had made fajitas, or something Mexican, with the stuff. I also remember him talking about cooking up some fox meat.

He was an interesting guy. I miss his posts.

Have not been hungry enough to eat a yote yet. As long as i keep catching coon and beaver I doubt I ever will be. I did eat a grey fox and it was good.

Beaver is very good and I agree that when skinning a beaver to eat I always remove the castor and oil sacks first. The younger ones I eat and use the older ones for bait. My favorite is shredded beaver burritos and beaver pot roast. Mountain lion is excellent! I have not tried bobcat, since I haven't targeted them yet.

I'd eat a human before I'd eat stink dog!!!

I’ll second that.

I would like to put forth a challenge. I reside in Wayne Co Ohio. Albeit there are some Coyote around I have limited grounds on which to trap. If anyone in proximity can provide a FRESH yote, I will eat it and report here of the experience. I will eat just about anything as I am not skerred lol. Proper care has a lot to do with it.

I had a market a few years ago for beaver meat to local mexicans . I gave a couple to a neighbor lady that had married a mexican that worked at a local tortilla chip plant .she came back and wanted two more so i said $5 apiece. Then the next week she wanted five . And the next week she wanted five more.
Come to find out she was making tamales and selling them to the workers at the chip plant where they both worked . They were a huge hit .she bought five a week for a few weeks. Then her husband took al the money they had saved up and went back to mexico and married a woman down there . She quit the chip plant and the tamales and didnt want anything to do with mexicans anymore i never could cultivate a connection with the local mexicans again for beaver i could sell them butcher hogs and a few would take a beaver if offered but never could get it where i could sell numbers. then the otter market crashed and i quit trying . Moral of this story is it sure dosnt hurt to give mexicans some beaver meats they lnow what they are and know what to do with them If i had kept catching beaver like i had been and kept spreading them through their community Im fairly certain i could of got a really good market going again

Catch you might want to fire up your grill. I'll bet you will get more offers than you can eat!
I would come down and try it with ya (Sandusky Co.) but I AM skerred

Soak it in cider and enjoy . Never ate one b4 probably not GNA try either

Smoked 30 Coyote loins last year at the MTA Convention in Barnum. About 150 people tasted them and said they would eat it again. Tasted like Ribeye Chislics! We told them what is was before they took any also, to be honest with them. All were fresh killed and skinned right away, with loins cut out and cleaned.

Not true. I try not to eat anything that eats meat.

Can't lump all divers as fish eaters...Mergansers or saw bills diets are primarily fish. Goldeneyes and old squaws like mollusks. But other divers like canvasbacks and redheads eat mostly aquatic plants. They are some of the best ducks for the table. Bluebills or scaup are divers that eat plants and mollusks and the ones that have been loading up on veggies are very good eating.

If it has its eyes on the side of its head (prey) and not on the front of its face (predators like us) its good to eat..

Was at a national convention once, and a fella had coyote salami and crackers at his booth. Tasted good, but then salami made out of anything tastes good! Never had bad salami! As for the beaver Larry, iv'e eat a lot of and never had bad,except when the castor wasn't handled right. The old ones aren't as good as the two year olds. Smells gamey when you cook it, like a lot of wild meats.

You haven't tried bobcat, lion or bear then. All three are very good eats.

Lee, I'm glad to hear that bobcat is good eating. If I get one this year I'm definitely going to try it.

I'm also interested in trying a coon. Of course a mountain coon, not a trash dump coon. I heard somewhere that they're good. I was thinking about throwing one in my smoker.

Anyone ever try coon?

I've had bbq'd coon b4. It's pretty darn good

Coon we trim off the fat we can get easy then boil until they pull off the bone .skim the fat off the water (this is a very important step ) .Then pull the meat off the bone and use like prepare like bbq beef or pulled pork.
If you have a big pot you can cook several at a time freeze the pulled meat. In meal size quantities

One of the demos this weekend at the NC convention was wild game cooking. Our cook, Muddawg, rendered the fat of one medium sized coon and ended up with about 2/3 of a quart of cooking oil and a couple of cups of delicious cracklins. He then used the oil to fry up some bobcat hind quarter steaks for the attendees to sample. They all got gone quick, fast and in a hurry!

Muddawg has been posting wild game recipes on the NC Trapper Forum for several years. This is the first year that I scheduled him to do a demo and he brought Cooking with Muddawg to the convention. Based on the interest and reception it got, it will not be the last time. I have already asked him to plan to do it again next year with a couple of different species.

And I whole heartedly agree with Lee on bobcat and bear being excellent table fare. I have not had the opportunity to try lion but understand it is great as well.

WOW, that is awesome! I'm going to have to look him up for some recipes and directions on how to's.