coyote meat is great!

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My pap'aw raised hogs, they stink! Hogs will eat anything, even YOU if they could. Taste has a lot to do with smell(or vice-verse) coyote smells like musty dog X10. I'm sure the meat wouldn't have a doggy smell unless the hide contaminated it. I'm glad a few of you had the intestinal fortitude to at least try it.
 
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I shot this little fellow last night and decided to leave him until this morning to drag off from the feeder. The coyotes started working him over in the meantime. Just thought you might enjoy looking at the yummy diet of the coyotes....too bad I couldn't post the smell too. They just love the stomach and intestinal contents and start there first. I had to hold my breath just take this pic....
 
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Response expected :) honestly if I mixed the straps with deer straps I would put money that no one Would tell the difference. The shoulder I cooked up a steak it was little chewy. Taste was fine but I think slow cooked it would have pulled apart... I have a whole front shoulder and its going in the crock pot over night sometime this week. I will let you all know. If anyone here gets a chance try a back strap from a coyote then at least you can say you don't like it :) cheers
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OK, you are bringing up a subject that is culturally abhorrent to the majority then taking a tude because you are getting a less than favorable reaction? If you want to eat coyote, skunk, muskrat or vulture have at it, Everybody has a Gawd given right to screw up their lives (or stomachs) as they see fit. If you expect me to pat you on the back for your choices and follow blindly... You may as well figure on a life of disappointment.
 
Chickens eat chicken **** and wounded chickens. I still like chicken though.
 
Sorry IRONWORKER, last time I looked all hogs had hooves....nothing but buzzard and coyote tracks around it. I imagine the buzzards must have been wearing clothes pins over their noses/beaks. The coyotes were probably getting close to the point where they roll in the internals...wouldn't want to waste all that lovely smell.
 
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Waitress: "All out of Chow Mein, sorry. Got some Pekinese Mein, though...."


Larry
 
officers wife no tude here

Hey guys no tude from me I'm just sharing. I know that its not the norm. And if we're talking muskrat I'm in. One thing I miss about my gramps. He was a trapper and muskrat was on his menu. I loved it. It was little greasy but Lil salt and I was good to go. I do wonder if he was here what he'd say about 'yote though? :) miss him... My grandma was not as impressed as me at that stuff lol... One time though he said to me was when you get hungry enough people change their minds on what they'll eat. He grew up poor in the depression. I dunno where I'm going with this.... Times aren't that bad but I like trying new things :) I also don't mind a little critisim I have thick skin and enjoy the conversation. Who's in for some snapping turtle? Now that's some fine eating. And expensive at a restaurant.
 
I'm very glad to hear they are edible. I know they need to be eradicated, but I can't bring myself to shoot a critter I don't use. That's my own mental instability at work. I take nothing away from coyote hunters.

In days before ours, Indians kept and ate dogs. I wonder if coyotes taste about the same.
 
Short barrel I have the same hang up. Unless I am keeping a pelt, the animal is destructive to my property or I am going to eat an animal I would prefer to enjoy watching nature.

I also find it interesting how cultures decide which meat is edible. Every culture has both its delicacies and taboo's. I have the same conversations about venison with some friends and family. My take will always be,... More for me... ;)
 
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lobo9er said:
Hey guys no tude from me I'm just sharing. I know that its not the norm. And if we're talking muskrat I'm in. One thing I miss about my gramps. He was a trapper and muskrat was on his menu. I loved it. It was little greasy but Lil salt and I was good to go. I do wonder if he was here what he'd say about 'yote though? :) miss him... My grandma was not as impressed as me at that stuff lol... One time though he said to me was when you get hungry enough people change their minds on what they'll eat. He grew up poor in the depression. I dunno where I'm going with this.... Times aren't that bad but I like trying new things :) I also don't mind a little critisim I have thick skin and enjoy the conversation. Who's in for some snapping turtle? Now that's some fine eating. And expensive at a restaurant.
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Did you know that if you smoke carp in oak you can't tell the diff from salmon? It's best to *ahem* harvest them early in the spawn otherwise you have to cut out the mud vein.

If you roast opossum on a spit it helps remove some of the grease.

FYI- a newly retired employee now spends his days in the thickets and woodlots harvesting squirrels but any critter that crosses his path is likely to be lunch. A certain unnamed idiot that shall remain my brother calls him an Appalachian American, to which he replies with great heat that he's a hillbilly tried and true. I would give you his exact words but Sister Beatrice wouldn't approve my use of such language.

In a couple of months Hubby will be complaining I'm feeding him weeds. He is quite partial to lambsquarter, poke and dandelion greens which I simmer in rice vinegar when I can find it. And while he complains when I have him pull up a sassafras tree I have to guard the family recipe root beer with dogs and a loaded shotgun to make it last more than a week.

I just draw the line at meat eaters and scavengers. And just for the record- when my adopted Dad took me to Australia to visit my grandparents on my 1st Dad's side my Grandmother shared a recipe for abodo based on dog meat that I ate to be polite. She developed it when she and my Grandfather were following Marcos around the islands of Leyte and Luzon. Later I discovered venison works just as well, since I'm not hiding from Japanese I can be more selective.
 
My uncle would feed me, or anyone else for that matter, muskrat, coon, possum, or anything else he trapped or killed. if they didn't ask, he didn't tell. I doubt very highly he would eat or feed anyone a yote. I have seen him skin thousands of rabbits and leave the back foot on them. When I asked why he left the one back foot on it, he told me a story of a guy who was killing cats around the neighborhood and selling them as rabbits. It is amazing how much the resemble the other when they are skinned. I may have to try yote just so I can see for myself how it tastes.
 
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I'm very glad to hear they are edible. I know they need to be eradicated, but I can't bring myself to shoot a critter I don't use. That's my own mental instability at work. I take nothing away from coyote hunters.

In days before ours, Indians kept and ate dogs. I wonder if coyotes taste about the same.
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Hi Short Barrel,

Not eradicated, controlled. Just like everything else. There was a time when nature controlled the populations through disease and starvation. Those days are gone the cycle of transmission has been interrupted by mankind's veterinary science and mankind keeps all kinds of tasty critters all bunched together like a coyote food mart. A species capable of pulling down a calf or an older cow needs to be controlled to keep their appetites at an acceptable level.

Around here coyotes are not hunted. They commit premeditated suicide by getting into my chickens. The difference is slight, but it's important.
 
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id you know that if you smoke carp in oak you can't tell the diff from salmon?
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throw out the carp and eat the board... I've heard that one...

FYI- a newly retired employee now spends his days in the thickets and woodlots harvesting squirrels but any critter that crosses his path is likely to be lunch. A certain unnamed idiot that shall remain my brother calls him an Appalachian American, to which he replies with great heat that he's a hillbilly tried and true. I would give you his exact words but Sister Beatrice wouldn't approve my use of such language.

In a couple of months Hubby will be complaining I'm feeding him weeds. He is quite partial to lambsquarter, poke and dandelion greens which I simmer in rice vinegar when I can find it. And while he complains when I have him pull up a sassafras tree I have to guard the family recipe root beer with dogs and a loaded shotgun to make it last more than a week.
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gotta be honest this must be above my pay grade because I'm not following... Is that from a song or something?

But if we're talking weeds clover and cat cat tails rock my socks.
In fact cat tails are pretty expensive canned if you were to buy them
 
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Anyone else here in this thread been successful coyote hunting this year? If so any pelts off to be tanned or anyone do it themselves?
 
As with all living creatures you hunt, its better to hunt lower on the food chain on account of the magnification and accumulation of heavy metals.
That said,
good eating.
 
lobo9er said:
throw out the carp and eat the board... I've heard that one...
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Actually, I'm quite serious, it's a little trick my uncle taught me that he learned on the Pine Ridge Indian Res.

As for your other question, Hubby has killed three and the before mentioned idiot two so far this year but it's considered pest control. The complete carcasses are usually buried so not to attract predators.
 
cool... my dad as kid used to spear them and sell them to jewish people down the road. I'm not sure if its a Jewish thing or just that particular family.
 
Neither Jewish nor particular to that family. Here in North America, we've got a bias against the so-called "trash fish". In most of the world, it's considered anywhere from edible to delectable.

Every culture has it's biases, we happen to be discussing food. What's a treat and what's disgusting is often more a function of societal convention than one of nutrition or taste.
 
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