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Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/19/13 11:18 PM
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We have several fox on the place and they have their pups every year within a few hundred yards of the house. When we throw food out back, they come in and scrounge it, although it isn't very often. They will eat enchaladas, hot dogs, squash, and any meat products thrown across our backyard fence. Two weeks ago I dressed out two feral pigs and threw out the bones with a goodly amount of meat on them. The fox and coyotes will not touch these. We've thrown balogna to the side of this banquet and they eat the balogna but will not touch the pig meat. Anyone with any ideas WHY?
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 12:03 AM
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Do they happen to all get together and pray in the same direction about five times day?
To be determined
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 12:12 AM
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 12:15 AM
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I don't know why but we have noticed the same thing. We only had one hog that the vultures took care of, nothing touched the other hogs.
I will take a good rain or a new calf whenever I can get it -Jack Ratjen
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 12:30 AM
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That is strange I have seen whole drt pigs completely disappear after only a couple of days.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 12:32 AM
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That is strange I have seen whole drt pigs completely disappear after only a couple of days.
yep, if I kill a pig friday night, I usually go back sunday afternoon to pick up the skull, sometimes it has been picked clean by the next day. More from buzzards than yotes and foxes I would imagine though.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 03:32 AM
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I can see a fox not messing with it but we bait yotes with hogs and have good success doing so.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 03:41 AM
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I have lost three hogs to yotes They hit a pine patch and hunting solo I will not enter. I am hunting only with a crossbow. Landowner says to many cows to hunt with fire arms. Have went in during daylight the following morn to find parts.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 06:39 AM
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The buzzards will eat anything that gets thrown out including the pigs. Maybe something with the praying 5 times a day because I found several little mats laying out there, think maybe they are the prayer mats? They don't wear the little skull caps so I don't really think they are Jewish.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/20/13 02:05 PM
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/21/13 01:56 AM
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SMH You neglected to tell me about the two pigs you dressed. Now I want a couple of packages. KAH
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/21/13 01:59 AM
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Yotes at my place still come to hogs. Watched 8 of them last night lol
Just doing it for fun now.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/21/13 06:35 AM
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Hey, love that pig meat. All 4 front quarters have already been cooked up whole. Neighbors of ours needed some meat so the front quarters went to them first. That is the good thing about feral hogs, they just keep on giving.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/21/13 03:14 PM
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I left a game camera over a pig carcass to see what would eat it. Here's what I got...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/84965486@N07/8494339301/in/photostream/
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/21/13 03:40 PM
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It has to do with you providing them with the processed supplements, which has now turned into their entitlements. However, should the fiscal cliff not be postponed, once again, you should see a drastic change in behavior come March 2nd?
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/21/13 04:00 PM
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I have killed hogs and put game cameras up on them. The yotes will come in smell it and never take a bite, dont know why, but the vultures pick em clean. Have had pics of hogs eating the dead hogs quite often though
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/28/13 06:33 AM
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BigAbner, I gave away the front quarters to a neighbor but make your way down here and we'll cook up a hind quarter.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/28/13 10:59 AM
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Don't know about foxes but in my neck of the woods the yotes eat the heck out of our pigs.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/28/13 11:54 AM
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I find it strange that sometimes yotes eat the heck out of hogs and other other times they seem to have no real interest in eating one.
lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true Mainstream news might be fun to watch
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/28/13 02:24 PM
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Hogs may have rolled in diesel.
Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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Re: Fox & Coyotes not eating feral pig carcases
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02/28/13 03:29 PM
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Hogs may have rolled in diesel. Could be, I never have/never will use diesel corn. Maybe that's why lol....
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