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I gutted a male coyote the other day with 13 baby rabbits in his stomach. Are you looking at stomach contents and if so what are you finding?

13 rabbits, WOW!! That was one hungray Boy!

Haven't been looking a lot but the ones that i have opened up were full of rabbits. At least its not lambs yet!!!

can't say that i have ever opened the stomach contents of a coyote but i am sure i will do it sooner or later. I feel its a great idea to see what the local coyotes are eating in your hunting area. Its one more thing to add to the arsenal book and better edgucate youself.

I have been doing it for years. I have found Cedar berries, Kangaroo Rats, gophers, grouse, mice, grasshoppers, rabbits, horse, cows, sheep, .....You name it they will eat it.

Jamie


I can understand seeing the difference between a grasshopper and a rodent. How do you tell the difference between whether a coyote ate a horse or a sheep? The hair?

Yep the hair is a good place to start. on smaller animals you can usely find a foot or two, tails, teeth....etc.

Antelope, I am seeing a bunch of dead antelope.

how does a coyote catch an antelope??

you need to ask yourself the same questions about coyotes levi how do i shoot coyotes somebody has to tease ya fella

Antelope hate coyotes, and will chase them any chance they get. You will see dead antelope laying by the dens. They go to the dens to haze the coyotes and just don't know when to leave. They will get to chasing coyotes pups around a den and the adults come in and pull them down. They also decoy the Does away from the fawns and the other coyote will go in and find the hidden fawn. When they are young the coyotes have know problem chasing them down.

how many coyotes does it take to down an antelope? antelope aren't too big.

kind of like how many guys does it take to screw in a light bulb I do not know if there is a answer to this question. I am sure one coyote could take down a adult antelope. I have not seen one go down but I have seen several time were one coyote is working on fawns. I have also seen lots of adults dead by dens and would assume in most cases this is a pair of coyotes at work.

In most cases my opinon would be two coyotes however i have seen still pictures of a single coyote taking down a fork whitetail buck and killing him.

I bet a big dominate male would can take down an average size deer!

I am surprised the deer population doesn't take a bigger hit than it really does. I know some areas the deer population is down because of coyotes.