What do you do with the rest of the animal?

[deadeye]

I have been wondering what you guys do with the "rest" of the animal after it has been skinned? I.E. coyotes, mink, fishers, ect. I hunt birds and deer but have never hunted/trapped predators/furbearers before.

This question is sparked because a freind of a freind shot a coyote last night. I thought that was neat but I never knew what I would do with meat from one of those so I have not gone after them before.

My only guesses is that its used for bait on new traps or near a blind in a field. Possibly fertilizer? (carp make the tomatoes in my garden 6' tall ) Either that or its discarded. I can't really imagine that the meat from some of those critters tastes too good. (I have tried racoon and it was pretty much just like pulled bbq pork IMO)

Sorry if its a dumb question but I figured I would that guy and ask. I would like to go predator hunting sometime but I don't want to do something wrong. I figured its better to look like a @$$ and know than be a dumb@$$.

[Dave S]

I believe that just like deer carcasses, you can legally put them into your refuse containers and let the garbage man take them.

Be careful though, some areas might not be fluent on the reality of hunting and finding a 'dog' caracass in the trash might cause some alarm.

[Neighbor_guy]

Depending on shot placement or who shot the critter, I may save and boil/clean the skull. In the past I have removed canine teeth if the hide's are being sold and skull not wanted.

Everything else is allowed to freeze solid so'as not to stink, then tossed in the curbside takaway barrel and hauled away on wed morinings.....

[deadeye]

Thanks guys!

I kind of figured thats what happens but I didn't want to assume. That usually ends bad.

[FlyingV]

I have a cabin in the woods, and I take the few carcasses I get, and hang them in the trees in my woods. The chickadees, woodpeckers and blue jays eat on them all winter. Natural suet balls!

By spring, they are nothing but a pile of bones at the base of the tree.

I like to think of it as payback time for the little prey birds.

[RBuker]

Don't let flyingV kid you. He makes sandwhiches out of the coyote carcasses. He takes the cuts he can (Loins and round steak) and pounds them with a tenderizer. He rolls them in flour and frys them. Make great sammys!

I know for a fact that I had fisher jerky the last time I hunted with him...

Good stuff.

Randy

[The Grebe]

When I used to trap, I would make carcass piles here and there in out of the way places where they weren't apt to be stumbled on by the casual hiker.

I trapped alot of private land so it wasn't hard to find a place to put the carcasses. The piles became magnets for other meat eaters, a winter cache and by the time the next season rolled around, they were gone.

[fishermann222]

Grebe and flyingv are right on. Nature has a way of taking care of everything on its own.

I am not familiar with the laws down there about carcass dumping anymore, but up here I dump most of my fox here and there making little piles for the scavengers to eat. All lynx and beaver carcasses are used for bait for catching more furbearers.

[jigginjim]

Yote meat could be ok to eat. In vietnam they served dog on the menu's, I buddy said it was there good, don't know it was dog until after he asked a waiter. He went back another time and order it again. Must be paletable. ///

[motley man]

As said before, put them where the birds can get to them. If you are lucky enough to put them in your back yard, you will be amazed to the critters that come to feed. Fox, Crows, Weasels, Squirrels, Cats, Dogs, etc. Any carcass or Leftovers work, put all scraps out.

[icehousebob]

I used to do farm chores for an old guy back in the sixties. He and his partner would trap two to three thousand muskrats plus fox, coon and mink every year. Come spring, we would use the manure spreader to spread them over his fields. They were then plowed into the soil. He had some really huge carcass piles to haul.

[reddog]

They ship them to Lousiana to the gator farms from here. There is a market, although small.