Eating yotes or wolves?
 

Yeah well, I'm all set for predator hunting but I got some hard time killing yotes or wolves and let them rot there. I'm more of the type that eat what I kill and seems like I'd take the meat out of them.

Not really fond of eating canine either but I could get over that with a bit of convincing.

My main concern was that they were scavengers but after some research on google it doesn't seem to be a problem. Specially when doing beef jerky and that's what I intend to do.

So, anyone here ever ate yotes/wolves ?

nope, and never will! you ever skin a yote? a bear stinks bad, is edible that's about it, but you could roll a bear in a pile of sh*t for 3 days and he wouldn't smell as bad as a yote, but if it makes you feel better about killin them you just help yourself.
RR

Nope never skinned, heck never killed a coyote. I'll keep that in mind if I'm going through this lol.

Well I eat coyote even though I can afford other meat to eat. I find it tasty and I look at the teeth and only take the meat from the youngest ones.

You will get a lot of yuk comments from people here but I will bet a dollar to a donut they have never tried it but consider them selves experts. They really are experts too at yuking things they know nothing about.
And Not all coyotes stink when you go to skin them, plus if you skin them for the fur to sell you might just as well take a hunk of meat.

Here are some recipes I like.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/camp...e-recipes.html

About 90% of the world eats dog & horse meat.

:D Al

I ate a coyote once. I don't recommend it as a steady diet. To say it was gamey would be a severe understatement.

would eat the north end out of a southbound rino if hungry enough, but not till then.

I skin em and leave the carcass. coyotes got to eat to.you would be amazed how fast a coyote will consume a fallen comrade.

My opinion: eat it if you want to. I've eaten my share of weird game animals... But I also don't consider killing them a waste... Scavengers will clean them up pretty quickly probably. Nothing really "goes to waste in the woods" it all gets used eventually.
-Jake

Man RR, you found a good smellin one if that's only as bad as he smelled!!!!!! I have skinned over 1000 and none smelled that good!!!!!

I would have to be very very hungry and have no other choice, before I would consider eating a coyote, fox or wolf or any member of the weasel family. There are some things that just don't pass the sniff test.

I'm a bit at lost, heard some horror stories about parasite in canine that is quite harmful to us. Still it might just be stories from people that doesn't know nothing.

I've seen some tv show where a guy's eating raw meet with maggot on it. Can't be worse than that I guess.

off camera there was a dr. who monitored the guy every couple hours, this ole boy is not particular, as a kid in south tx, even the dreaded "possum on the halfshell" was a rare treat, moved north and baked coon took it place, have eaten just about anything out there and liked it, but by god I ain't eatin a skunk, possum, canine of any kind, or any weasel.......pass the fried eel please!
RR

Can't say that I have ever had any desire to eat a coyote. The ones I have shot smell terrible. With what they eat, I wouldn't think they would taste good at all. Maybe bring it to a Chinese restaurant and let them show you how to prepare it :-)

Unless you're in a survival situation, you wouldn't have any reason to eat a coyote :)

I wouldn't eat coyote but I would eat bobcat again.

It's interesting that some predators are good to eat while others not so much. For instance, mountain lion is supposed to be very good, yet coyotes and wolves are not desirable. Black bear can be good, but you never hear of anyone eating Grizzlies or brown bear.

It is interesting people will eat meat they only know came from a super market and nothing else about it. Yet they will turn their nose up at a coyote because it smelled while they skinned itand because of what they will eat at times.

It is meat properly taken care of stored then marinated seasoned and properly cooked is tasty like any other meat.

You also know the coyote was not fed growth hormones feed or feed full of anti bodies. Was not sick when you shot and butchered it either. Can you say the same for the beef you got at the grocery?

:D Al

Actually you don't know either. A coyote could have scavenged a carcass that was fed hormones and they could have a disease that has not manifested symptoms at the time it was shot, but the disease thing is true with all wildlife. But hey if anyone wants to eat a coyote, have at it.

perception is everything. some love raw fish. I will not try it unless starving.
it will all make a turd and in the right circumstance each and every one of us, would eat anything we had to ,to survive. look to the donner party as an example. is there anything in nature that will eat such a variety, or that smells so bad as a human being.
just because you can doesn't mean you should.

I guess it has to be a difference in where you hunt the coyotes. In my area the farmers do not leave dead cattle where coyotes can get them. They usually call a company to come get the carcass to take some place to make glues and stuff with.
Many time you can see if a coyote looks healthy before the shot is taken.

:D Al

I'd have to be at the very verge of starvation, at the brink of death, before I would even think of eating a yote, wolf or any scavengers and most any carnivores! By that time I'd probably be too weak to hunt or clean one.
Besides, in most survival situations, there would most likely be more palatable animals and vegetation available! I also agree that nothing is wasted in the woods and have no problem with thinning out predators and vermin! A carcass doesn't last 2 days in the woods!
However, to each his/her own! Eat whatever you will! But I'll take a rain check, thank you!
:patriot:

You eat PIG every day, and they are the nastiest animals on the planet.

Just look at it as saving a great number of deer and elk fawns and there's no way you could ever kill too many ! And no I never ate one and never would !

I know two people who have eaten coyote but I have never been hungry enough to eat anything that stinks as bad as coyotes and foxes. If I was starving I might with no other choice available.

I DON'T EAT PIG EVERY DAY??????????:biggrin:


if you don't shoot every coyote you can, they may take after the deengo an eet youre baibbee

We all know if it came down to it, you would be happy to have it to eat.

Until then; be my guest !!!

I was trained many many moons ago to eat things that would make most people run for the hills. Any Marine from before 1975 will know exactly what I am talking about too. Unless someone was holding a gun to my head and both my arms were broken and couldn't take it away from them, or I hadn't eaten in literally a week, maybe 2, I would NOT eat one of those nasty critters! I noticed someone brought up how some predators tastes great while others are pretty awful. I've also heard just about any of the wild cat families are quite tasty. I myself have never tried any. Back when I used to trophy hunt I got a couple of Mountain Lions but didn't even think to ask about the meat from them. The guy who I was hunting with said he uses it for his dogs so after I caped them I gave them to him. 2 hunts, 2 very nice Toms and here I was clueless about the supposed good flavor of the meat. I have been told it's because the wild cats don't scavenge (unless starving) while Wolves, yotes, and most other canine breeds do and do so quite often. Who knows. All I know is, anyone that says the inside of a yote don't small like the seven layers of hell covered in crap, is one nose dead person!!!

https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/echino...o/ae-faqs.html

I skin Fox wearing rubber gloves and a breathing mask, wash my clothes afterword above 160 F.

No cure, only treatment is surgery, 97% of people infected die within 10-20 years. Some areas 50% of the Fox and Yotes are infected. The dried Yote or Fox scat containing the eggs can make the eggs airborne (dust) and you can breath them in.

How many of you just buy the steaks labeled as Angus beef and not demand a DNA test to prove you are indeed getting Angus.


Sort of what I thought no one does.


So at a wild game dinner you just take it a face value the game is labeled correctly.


I properly cook coyote on the grill, crock pot and it is as safe as the slaughter house beef and pork people buy and get sick eating because it was cut up on crap covered tables and stuff.


Do a search on recalled beef and tell me that stuff in your grocery store is totally safe to eat.


:D Al

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Think your grocery store meat is safer than a wild coyote you can personally inspect become the kill and during the skinning?


I think not.


:D Al

I've never eaten coyote (or fox) and have no interest in trying it. Having said that, the OP will have to get his yote and tell us if he agrees with alleyyooper or not. :D:D

I give my Coyotes to the local Trappers so they don't go to waste,or if I get one I want to have mounted or the hide Tanned I'll take it to my local Taxidermist!

I'd try Bobcat meat before I would eat a Coyote! ;)

What about rabies ? Would you eat a coon, or something that potentially has rabies?

Rabies has never been documented to be transferable through consuming meat of infected animals, lest said were contaminated by brain tissue, spinal tissue, or bone marrow.

Deer, squirrels, bunnies, and cattle can all be infected with rabies, just as likely as coyotes, wolves, or coons.

That's not to say I wouldn't avoid consuming any part of an animal I suspected of any form of commutable infection, but I wouldn't consider eating what appears to be a healthy predator or omnivore to be of any greater risk than eating any wild game.

I wont judge anyone for eating it, but I don't know that I would want to. At the same time I have a hard time killing anything and letting it go to waste. This dilemma is one reason I haven't killed a coyote yet. However, the population control is necessary!

First and for most when you wish to cook a wild critter the prep is the most important step. You want to keep the critter clean as you skin it remove any hair or feathers on the carcass remove all glands on those critters that have them. It is also a good Idea to remove fatty deposits/tissue. Try to age the critter also older animals can be tough and are better suited to a long slow cook method

:D Al