Dead deer experiment 2022

[bullpup-addict]

I put this dead deer in my woods in front of my trail camera to see what happens.

 

[Fyrstyk]

If I did the same thing in my back yard, the only pictures I would get is of coyotes dragging off the carcass.

 

[Speedo66]

If I did the same thing in my back yard, the only pictures I would get is of coyotes dragging off the carcass.

When I lived on Candlewood Lake in New Fairfield CT, there were some bear around.

I recall a few dogs were injured by bear near the lake in Sherman.

 

[.308 Norma]

If I did the same thing in my back yard, the only pictures I would get is of coyotes dragging off the carcass.

Here, the neighbor's dogs would eat good that night. By morning, there wouldn't be much left for the coyotes and foxes.

 

[Highland Lofts]

We have set out trail cameras on deer gut piles. The fox are the first to come in and eat.
Raccoons will come.
Lots of crows.
Occasionally fisher once they find it .
Coyotes will come around three of four days later and be skiddish for a couple of days then start eating off the guts. We throw out the trash blood shot deer meat, fat and bones from the deer we butcher on the pile.
We will set a camera up again on the gut piles this coming deer season.
It interesting to see what comes around.

 

[Fyrstyk]

I once had a bald eagle and a red tailed hawk feeding off the left overs from butchering two deer.

 

[Highland Lofts]

Over the years we only had one retail hawk scavenging on the gut piles.
Lots of crows.
We have had deer come check out the gut piles.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

A few years back my buddy needed help tracking an arrow shot deer. Took us four hours to find it and when we did coyotes had been chewing on it already.
And this was in broad daylight...

 

[Captcurt]

Death doesn't have the same effect on animals as it does on humans. I have shot deer standing a few feet from a gut pile or a dead deer. Nature has a way of disposing of offal too. I once field dressed a deer by a logging trail and returned 2 hours later to find every morsel gone. I knew we had a lot of coyotes, but darn. They must have learned that a gunshot is a dinner bell.

 

[.308 Norma]

Death doesn't have the same effect on animals as it does on humans. I have shot deer standing a few feet from a gut pile or a dead deer. Nature has a way of disposing of offal too.

Not exactly what you're talking about, but 3 times my wife and I witnessed something similar when we were shooting ground squirrels last spring over on our friend's ranch. We each shot ground squirrels, and 3 times in our scopes, we saw another ground squirrel pop up out of a hole about 2 feet away, run over and grab the dead ground squirrel and try to drag it back towards the hole the second one popped out of. So, we shot the second ground squirrel too.
Later on, we were telling our rancher friend about it and joking that the second ground squirrels must have been trying to drag their buddies to safety to perform CPR on them. But our friend said, "Well they are cannibalistic, you know."
My wife and I hadn't known that, but when we got home, we looked it up on the internet and found out our friend was right. We killed close to 500 ground squirrels on our friend's ranch last spring, and it turns out we weren't just feeding buzzards and coyotes, we were feeding other ground squirrels too.

 

[nettlle]

We had a road kill doe in our front yard a few years ago. By the time I found her something was already eating her. When I picked up the carcass with the tractor loader a couple of unborn fawns spilled out. What a waste. I took the carcass to the woods at the back of our property (down wind of our house) and set out a game camera. The carcass was stripped to the bone in a week by black vultures and coyotes. Vultures are pretty amazing.

 

[Bottom Gun]

I set a camera on a dead cow this summer

 

[Random 8]

I put a camera on my pile in far Northern MN a few years ago. Got the usual suspects, ravens, grey jays, eagles, a red fox, eventually a lone coyote. Most interesting and surprising were grouse and snowshoe hares that appeared to be feeding on parts of the gut pile. Deer were ambivalent, although did appear to have a "whistling through the graveyard" look as they passed by.

 

[armedwalleye]

Minnesota has instituted a program this year asking hunters to contact the DNR and set a trail camera up, tours or theirs, on your gut pile and then wait 30 days and send them the photos in an attempt to study the animals that feed off the Offal

 

[Captcurt]

Minnesota has instituted a program this year asking hunters to contact the DNR and set a trail camera up, tours or theirs, on your gut pile and then wait 30 days and send them the photos in an attempt to study the animals that feed off the Offal

So far I have witnessed, fox, coyote, bobcat, opossums, black vultures, and bald eagles. I am sure that a hog or a bear would be a customer if one was available.

 

[CraigC]

You have some good looking foxes!

 

[Highland Lofts]

We caught a 20 pound raccoon and we picked up a roadkill gray fox. After skinning them out I set the carcasses out by where I will be sitting the first few day of deer hunting back in New York. I flew back to Seattle on Wednesday and will be flying bag to new York on November 15th for a month of deer hunting.
I might put a deer gut pile there and set a trail cam up on it during deer season.