Trad Gang

Never had one...

we tend to not eat predators, but in reality, i'm not sure why.  Try one and tell us about it.  Dogs are a delicacy in some countries.  What folks eat around the world might amaze us here.
ChuckC

Yeah cook them on a pine board. Throw the coyote away and eat the board.

In nature predators tend not to hunt other predators for food. I have a hard time with my inner self to kill something without the justification of eating it. I know that sounds wierd to some people but I can't help it.

If you are a buzzard, they are great!!!!!

Bisch

Yotes tend not to eat yote carcasses!  Maybe they know something.  :rolleyes:

Let me know how you like it!

I don't think I have ever been that hungry.

Fresh, clean , and browned then pressure cooked with good seasoning. If you didn't know, it would be very good.

I share producer's sentiments. If I was planning to hunt a coyote, I would also be planning to eat it, or at least try it.  If I tried it and didn't like it, I guess I could live with myself if I threw the rest of it away.  I usually give what I don't like to the dog, but in this case I think I'd pass on that too.

A review of the Internet doesn't reveal a lot of enthusiasm, but none of the posts indicated that you would die from it, as long as you cooked it enough to kill the germs.

We do eat predators, like bear, bass, salmon, etc.

OK, does anybody KNOW.   Is there anything unhealthy about it ?  Like, poisonous or something ?  Or is it just like the famous line in Crocodile Dundee movies ?
ChuckC

Steven Rinella did an episode on Meat Eater where he shot and ate a yote. Said it wasn't to bad. The whole idea made me cringe!

Folks say that mountain lions are good. But if you are that hungry come by the house and my Wife will set a plate for ya...RC

I've had dog in my overseas travel and found it was amazing! That being said, anyone who has skinned a coyote and smelled the offering would probably pass lol

I can't say I know how a coyote taste. If I'd shot one when my dad was still with us I'd likely know.   :biglaugh:

We eat lynx and wolf all time here in Alaska ,Lynx cat up there with mountain goat in taste ,wolf and coy-dog down in the taste with porcupine ,we do call eating  wolf and coyote ""Eskimo Hotdogs :: here in Alaska,try a coyote its not that bad .

RC  -Now that was funny. Hope the wife doesn't see it.

Oh yes use mothers vinegar in pot with 75% water cover 48 hours ,drain put in meat grinder with fresh apples or salmon berries ,add fresh chopped onions and 2 eggs with bread crumbs 2 lb put in a cake pan bake 325 50-65 mins ,great on rye bread with blue cheese.

Mountain lion and bobcat are a fine meal!

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Tried coyote at rendezvous wasn't that great.

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Tracy

:smileystooges:

Heard about some Marines at Camp Pendelton trying it. They were not aware of the meats origin. They complained it was tough but said it wasn't bad. Of course compared to field rations anything can be better.

one thing is for sure.. they stink!

When in doubt it will taste good as jerky

I can barely stand the stink of them things. Defiantly won't be on the menu in our household.

Mt lion taste very very good! Havent tried coyote yet, but I wouldn't pass up the chance to try it.

From hearing a few older guys at a squirrel hunt after being asked how coyote can be cooked:

Coyote tastes like it smells.

I'll pass on that after having skinned a few, on the other hand muskrat is very good eating

I don't care to eat a coyote, but I certainly will not pass up a shot at one. I just don't like them.

QuoteOriginally posted by Sam McMichael:
I don't care to eat a coyote, but I certainly will not pass up a shot at one. I just don't like them.

:thumbsup:

Our Coyotes in Alaska don't smell must be the clean water and air or the fact I been operating Sewer plants for 32 years.I always thought Alaskan Airlines Served Eskimo Hotdogs(coyote) for caribou sausage and eggs for early morning flights to lower 48.

Not all coyotes stink here either, we catch and shoot a lot and yes a few are rank but it's pretty rare. During breeding season they seem to be a lot worse just like domestic's they roll in everything dead or cow crap. I've never had a dog that didn't roll on dead stuff its not just a coyote thing.

Those stinky coyotes and all the rest get washed a couple times after there skinned and soaked in downy fabric softher and smell Downey fresh when I sell them!   :bigsmyl:    

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Tracy

:biglaugh:    :biglaugh:

Joe said," ... or the fact I've been operating Sewer plants for 32 years."

Yep, I believe that chlorine gas, turned to hydrochloric acid in your nostrils, has desensitized you to "them yotes' smell".  

 :readit:    :biglaugh:    :biglaugh:  

I understand... I really do.

KS.Trapper email me some tips on trapping mink/martin I moved Sitka Ak from an other area of Ak so many mink in Sitka I see them even in day time on rivers and pine martin going in peoples mail boxes and eating out of trash cans no one traps here.,no coyotes in Sitka .Sitka deer are all over the place they walk right up to you no fear..

Very nice Tracy!

I would gladly wear coyote, and would eat it under certain circumstances.  Fortunately, I have been able to avoid such circumstances, and I will continue my efforts to avoid finding myself in them.

Thanks! I agree and I rarly drink and I never would have tried it but I was under the influence of a drink called "Apple Pie" and didn't know it was coyote at the time.    :biglaugh:  

It will be the last time I hope!

Tracy

Bob cat is great. Almost tried coyote But got to thinking about it.  The coyotes around here will not touch another coyote . They kill each other but do not eat each other. But eagles ,lions and wolfs will eat coyote. Anny thing cooked will be ok.

We used to hunt red fox for the skins when I was young(1970's, they were bringing $40 Australian per pelt) nothing touched them, except chickens bizarrely enough
Cheers mark

QuoteOriginally posted by mfc:
 nothing touched them, except chickens bizarrely enough
Cheers mark

Yet we love eating chickens!!! I have also seen turkeys eating roadkill and we eat those too.

I think most people wouldn't knowing eat a coyote but wouldn't think it was bad if properly prepared and served to them.

thanks to the endless variety of Bbq sauces and meat rubs anything that lives is edible.

Chickens and turkeys and pigs will eat almost anything that they can catch.  We find them tasty.

I guess I will try to kill a coyote this fall and try some backstraps.  What the heck. . .
ChuckC

Depends how hungry you are. The Wetzel boys found out "wolf ain't so bad" when you haven't eaten for 4 days.

Ive skinned a bunch of them, and wouldn't knowingly eat one.

You boil any meat long enough and then smother it with some kind of sauce it's probably eatable if your hungry or starving     :help:      :dunno:    

Beaver meat, the 4 legged kind is another favorite and very good. I always save some for cooking and the best overall bait for most other predators besides Bobcat meat. IMO

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The market on them has dropped out but there's not a prettier tanned pelt then beaver, and the sell very well. Plus they have castor and oil sacks that make great lure for all animals. Has a sweet smell and deer love it  when prepared right    ;)    

Tracy

Anyone else notice the starter of this thread hasn't responded not one time since starting it.    :knothead:    

Tracy

Maybe the starter OPer died trying to eat a Coyote!  :clapper:     :biglaugh:

I'm sorry folks, I've been out due to stomach issues. But l have been reading intently and am thankful for all the information.    :p

I would not eat one on a bet   :confused:    :scared:

i have seen some guys enjoy roadkill jackals with great gusto even so as it ran under one of their vehicles and have heard several hillfolk / tribals   here in india talk about snaring them for meat.

QuoteOriginally posted by snowplow:
I'm sorry folks, I've been out due to stomach issues. But l have been reading intently and am thankful for all the information.     :p  

I hope your stomach issues were not caused by Coyote and hence the reason you posted lol.

Hope you feel better ...

I hope you get to feeling better quickly Dustin   :thumbsup:  

Tracy

What Cystic Rivers said...

Coyote is similar to dog, so you might ask Barry Sorrento if it tastes like chicken.    :D       :D

QuoteOriginally posted by D. Key:
What Cystic Rivers said...

Coyote is similar to dog, so you might ask Barry Sorrento if it tastes like chicken.     :D         :D  

Not there diet which directly effects the taste of there meat. Just saying and I catch and see way to many that look like this. Kinda ruins the appetite    :scared:  

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Tracy

QuoteOriginally posted by Michael Arnette:
I've had dog in my overseas travel and found it was amazing! That being said, anyone who has skinned a coyote and smelled the offering would probably pass lol

I have eaten daigogie (dog) also and while it was eatable I would not call it amazing.  There was so many spices mixed in the meat could have been from my next door neighbor for all I knew.  

I pass on coyote.   I shot several when I lived in CA and that was one carcas that was always still there days later.

Haha, I was just joking guys. Thanks for the info though.

Well I definitely have to try one now. Call it morbid curiosity. I'm not too picky with meat anyhow.

I ran a trapline when I was a teenager (let's just say over 30 years ago).  I made it a point to try every type of critter I caught.  Coyote salami was pretty good.  Coyote jerky was rank, but not as bad as fox!  Oddly enough, fried muskrat was my favorite and I ate it on many occasions.  I wouldn't mind some even now.  Not about to break out the old traps now, though.

Tom

QuoteOriginally posted by K.S.TRAPPER:
 

QuoteOriginally posted by D. Key:
What Cystic Rivers said...

Coyote is similar to dog, so you might ask Barry Sorrento if it tastes like chicken.      :D           :D  

Not there diet which directly effects the taste of there meat. Just saying and I catch and see way to many that look like this. Kinda ruins the appetite     :scared:    

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Tracy [/b]

That's a big DITTO here also.

QuoteOriginally posted by K.S.TRAPPER:
Beaver meat, the 4 legged kind is another favorite and very good. I always save some for cooking and the best overall bait for most other predators besides Bobcats.

Been there, done that!  Hunted / fished with an old geezer in Michigan's northern lower peninsula.  He used to grind up the beaver and make burgers.  Mmmm, good.
homebru

So it sounds like some of you hunt coyote but dont eat them. What do you do with them? Isn't it illegal to let something lay?

QuoteOriginally posted by snowplow:
So it sounds like some of you hunt coyote but dont eat them. What do you do with them? Isn't it illegal to let something lay?

Not when it comes to furbearers. I don't even think Alaska requires salvaging wolf and grizz carcasses. Salvaging their carcases is not even a practical excersise for proficient trappers and callers.

Double post!

All the coyotes and other furbearers we catch and shoot that are usable we collect all the urine, glands, and meat for making our own lures. We collect the skulls for selling, claws and teeth depends on the animal what is usable.

Sick animals and animals with mange get buried and out of other animals reach so it's not passed on to them. Most people don't give a crap and just throw them in a ditch or leave them lay that dosent help anything. But honestly most of them hate skinning anyway and have there excuses for leaving coyotes.

All of our furs go to auction in Canada a couple times a year and a few lesser animals not fit for the auction are sent out to be tanned. The left over meat is set in dozens of bait stations spread out over several county's for coyote calling thru out the season. That way we can take other people out to enjoy calling them in too, lots of fun     :D    

Anybody want to guess what coyotes are worth nowadays? Not what you used to get for them back in the fur boom days picking up road kills and nobody threw them away.

Tracy

I also trap, and have skinned only 8-10 trapped or shot coyotes. I'm not eating one if I know what it is. Like Tracy, I enjoy beaver meat. Haven't tried the rest.

One of my assignments while  in the Air Force was on the staff of the AF's Survival School at Fairchild AFB, WA.  My flight was in the woods when we happened on a coyote that had been trapped by a commercial trapper.  Since we had the name and phone number of the trapper (WA required that info on the traps), we called him and gave the students a demonstration on how to skin a coyote and gave us the carcass.  All I can say is that it was tough, stringy, and had a very distinctive taste that I would not want to eat unless I had absolutely nothing else to eat!!  I cnosider it edible, but not by much.

QuoteOriginally posted by snowplow:
Haha, I was just joking guys. Thanks for the info though.

Well I definitely have to try one now. Call it morbid curiosity. I'm not too picky with meat anyhow.

i think i saw a recipe for it in a cook book called "50 ways to wok your dog"

When you eat the meat of a predator you risk getting  a nerve sickness can't remember what it's called

Haha thats hilarious Kurt!

I ate the first one I ever killed pictured in my avatar. I used some in chili, tried it slowly sautéed and finally grilled a hind quarter at a college football tailgate party. About 25 different people tasted and/or ate some. Some thought it was not good. Most thought it was okay but wouldn't need to try it again. Two or three thought it was tasty.

It was pretty tough and stringy and I thought it tasted along the lines of overcooked roast beef. I did not eat the only other one I've killed, but am not above trying it again.  Would probably put it in a pressure cooker with a lot of spices and veggies.

Basically, they are dogs that eat carrion. I wouldn't even think of eating one.

I think most of us enjoy pork and they eat anything and everything. I have had dog in Vietnam. It didn't taste bad and those things scrounged what ever they could find in the garbage. Bear are pretty tasty and they also have a varied diet.

I think the meat-eaters spoil quicker than animals who eat only grass and plants, but the key seems to be in proper preparation. If I ever get an arrow in one, I'd like to at least try it.

After all this I might try one . But most of mine are cold and mangy. Less hair to burn off.

I have seen buzzards take a pass on coyote.

Now on the Beverly Hillbillies, granny made a fine possum stew.  Once place we lived had a nasty possum that would sit on our porch above the door and snarl at us when we came home.  My little girl was only a year and half old and very curious with animals, so I put a deadhead through the possum.  I thought, POSSUM STEW FOR SUPPER. It was tough to skin, but when I gutted it and thinking about eating it, I gagged a tonsil out. I wish coyotes were worth the money they were years ago, we shot enough fox and coyotes to pay for our hunting supplies and gas. But eat one?Never.

Buzzards and worms seem to enjoy them

Raven worse thing I ate most anything will not eat a Raven ,Bethel Alaska in Spring time locals get together shoot stray house cats and dogs at the dump I enjoyed eating feral cats but could not eat mans best friend just love dogs to much.

QuoteOriginally posted by pavan:
I wish coyotes were worth the money they were years ago, we shot enough fox and coyotes to pay for our hunting supplies and gas. But eat one?Never. [/QB]

Still are worth plenty if know what your doing and good at finishing your furs right. Coyotes are the one fur that are still selling good but the market has been creeping down slowly for several years.  

All our trapping money pays for hunting and fishing for the next season    :thumbsup:    

Tracy

Coyotes? Do they have a split hoof and chew the cud?    :nono:

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Originally posted by Gatorkountry:
Coyotes? Do they have a split hoof and chew the cud?     :readit: