Coyotes and Crows - kill?

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First off, I'm 20, and grew up in a household where hunting was accepted, practiced, but not very often done. I've taken deer, turkey, dove, pheasant, rabbit, and squirrel, and love to eat the same.

So now I'm in college, and strapped of cash. Its open season for rabbit and squirrel, so intead of spending this month's budget on hamburger, I spent a portion on a new rifle. There is a wildlife management are nearby, and I intend to be out in the woods at least once per week until the end of season. Yes, that's right, in 2004, I've decided the cheapest way to put food on the table is to kill, clean, and cook it myself.

Anyhow, I was reading the Game and Fish booklet and saw that it is also season on coyote and crows. Now, I know coyote pelts can be sold, but it seems a waste to let all that meat spoil. Does anyone eat coyote? Also, are crows good eating? Or are they just considered a nuisance bird?

It wouldn't bother me so much to leave a crow to scavengers, but a coyote is a lot bigger, and it just doesn't seem right to skin it and leave the carcass. What should I do?
 
There's a website on crow hunting (crowbusters?) where they list recipes and claim that its good eatin. Basically cut the breast meat out like you would a dove. Thats the ONLY place I have seen folks recommend eating crow.
Coyote on the other hand, I've never heard of people eating. I think you'll find that your not leaving that much meat out there if you shoot one though. They're pretty dang lean critters most places.
 
Sounds great. I'll skin any coyotes i come across, and batter up crow breasts and see if I can pass them off as chiken strips to my fiance. If she doesn't projectile vomit, I'll try one :)
 
You DO know that crows eat a lot of carrion? Don't you?
















Skin them 'yotes out and leave them. They'll be gone in a couple of days. The crows will eat them. :eek: ;)
 
Ever eat a mushroom? I'm not concerned about what they eat, they're made of MEAT man!
 
the simple act of inhaling through the nose while cleaning a coyote will dissuade you from eating one

Crow would be nothing like Chicken. Chicken are ground dwelling birds and therefore have white meat in their breasts. Crows are flying birds and therefore have dark meat in their breast.
 
I've shot a few coyotes, never had any urge to eat one, but their pelts can be very nice.

Crows, we have a seaso for them in my state, but I'd rather spend my time hunting something that I know tastes really good, like pheasants and grouse, and even squirrels.
 
Crow

My grandpappy said they used to eat crow.

Around town I work in Ames, IA, they are having a big crow hunt this year to try and cut the population down. In winter the crows flock to Ames, they feed in the fields all day and come into town at night to roost, it is about 5-10 degrees warmer in town. On the university campus we used to wait until people walked under trees filled with crows as night and then clap our hand or make a loud noise, all the crow rustle and loose their bowls, fun thing to do for a lost freshmen.....

I jsut read a book about Heimo Korth, one of the most remote living men in Alaska, he and his family eat about anything. I am sure a crow, if prepared properly would be great. I like dark meat better anyway.
 
Crow Kabobs, Crock Pot Crow.... Sounds fine to me. I'll pop one and report back :)
 
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"It wouldn't bother me so much to leave a crow to scavengers, but a coyote is a lot bigger, and it just doesn't seem right to skin it and leave the carcass. What should I do?"

Leave it for the crows! :p
 
Dark meat would probably work well in several ethnic foods..

General Tso's 'chicken' is better when done with dark meat
would suspect the same for seaseme, meat lo-meins, among other things.


Might be passable shreded in tacos or burritos when mixed with some onion and green pepper.
 
I have talked to two avid coyote hunters who did give a try at eating one of them.

They said it was beyond terrible and utterly unedible.

Crow on the other hand can be tasty depending on what they are eating. I have not tried one personally, but lots of crow shooters have.

I just secured permission to hunt a deer on about 7000 acres of ranch land east of Denver. The only payback I owe is to come back and zap some Coyotes for the cattle ranchers!!! Score!
 
Here in east Texas, both coyotes and crows are generally considered pests or varmits and are killed with no regard for meat and left for the buzzards (and crows) and feral hogs to eat. They generally don't last long in our heat. A lot of my neighbors hang coyotes on the barbed wire fences in the belief that it will scare off other coyotes - to the best of my knowledge this is a belief that dates back to American Indian beliefs regarding wolves/coyotes being spirits that will be frightened off by others of their kind - whether or not it actually works I don't know, but we have plenty of coyotes regardless.

I'm not overly keen on eating the meat of animals which are predominately meat eating like coyotes and crows myself, but if the taste suits you, go for it - just cook them well. My neighbor shared with me that during the depression they used to eat blackbirds and robins, so if you have the need, and it will fill your belly, it has undoubtedly been tried before.

Twoblink will tell you that dogs are very much a menu item in some countries, and personally I think the several million stray pet animals that are euthanized in this country annually would be better served filling hungry bellies than going into a landfill.
 
Dunno 'bout coyotes and crows, but I can tell you that mountain lion is about as fine a meat as you'll ever throw a liplock on!

A buddy of mine killed a young, 60-pound lion and carefully barbecued the hams. Splendiferous!

I've read that the old-time mountain men regarded panther meat as a delicacy...

Art
 
I didn't eat him, but for academic purposes: Last weekend I was called upon to eliminate a crow who was making a nuisance of himself. Since I needed to unload my .50 caliber muzzleloader anyway, I used it. .50 caliber round ball makes a mess of Br'er Crow.
 
I know the feelings here toward poaching, but please hear me out. (Moderator - if you want, feel free to pull this {no banning please as I really enjoy it here, but this post just happens to be the truth}) Several years before my dad passed away I told him about this and he chewed me out like a teenager and I was 40+ at that time, so lesson learned.

In January of 1969 I had just started college and food was a tad scarce around the apartment. My roomy and I decided to go looking for some recent roadkill deer, but none to be found. We then saw a doe along the road and since we had a rifle with us, I think it was his dad's 30-40 Craig. One shot and she was down, 15 minutes later she was in the trunk and on the way home. We skinned her and quartered her on the kitchen table and placed her in the refrigerator for a couple of days to "cure". We then ran most of her through a meat grinder and lived on venison chili for the rest of the semester.

Was this wrong? You bet it was. Am I proud of it? Now that I am 54 and have a daughter in college, no I am not proud of it. Our parents had told us the cost of living was more than we expected, but heck at 19, we thought we knew it all and were ashamed to go to our parents and admit they were right.
 
Battlespace: I figure that, after 35 years, you've lived it down. ;)

I sure can't see how anyone could take the above post as an advocacy of road huntin'.

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I've never eaten a crow or coyote, but I eat a lot of things other people won't. I've killed three javelina, and eaten 'em all. (Make decent tamales and green chile stew.) When dove hunting, I shoot at the pigeons, too. Three times the meat, and no bag limit. I put 'em in the same dishes that I do the other dove, and they taste just as good. Cracks me up when people who would eat a mourning dove won't eat a feral rock dove; they live in mostly the exactly same locales, and they eat from the same dove weed, maize, etc.

I'll just bet that a yodel dog could be made to taste okay, if it was prepared properly. And that said, a couple of crows' breasts could probably be made to be edible, so long as the chef didn't tell the eater what it was.
 
LOL, I'm goign to be hunting in the nearby wildlife management area. Everything's legit, small game season here is september to february. And I'm not STARVING, I just figured it is gonna be a bit cheaper to shoot some game than it would be to go buy it. Either way, I get to go shoot my guns, and that's the real objective in life, isn't it?
 
Supposedly,

Every known species of bird is assumed edible. The Royal Navy served crow when required, as dried peas gets very old among the crew quite fast. Coyote, on the other hand, serves one purpose: drawing in other scavengers.
Pick a scavenger, and it will happily eat coyote. Some say the ribs are great for catching catfish. Good luck.
 
Lobsters'

last meal, in the trap is the most disgusting, rotten fish you can imagine. Have you ever smelled a lobster boat?
Most fish we eat are meat eaters.
I'm not a hunter, but I could see getting into hunting crows, and eating them.
Interesting thread.
 
Crows are the only birds I will shoot and let lie.

Dad taught me not to kill anything I wouldn't eat. 99% of the time I abide by them rules except when a crow presents itself as an easy target. :neener:
 
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