Originally Posted By: daniel white
I know for a fact if we have a cow or calf to get sick and die, a buzzard or yote neither one will eat it. It will lay there and rot before a scavenger eats it. I guess what I am getting at is, if a coyote eats a fawn, then it caught it alive. If a fawn dies of sickness or infection, I don't think a yote will eat it.


Your yotes must not be as hungry as our's.

We killed 5 feral hogs several weeks ago and dumped them at the gut pile, and there is STILL fresh coyote crap with hog hair within 500-yards of where we dumped them. They were eating them fresh and apparently now that they are good and ripe.

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