Eating Coyote

I've eaten coyote cooked a couple different ways over the years. It's not something I'd ever get a craving for but cooked right it's not terrible. The best way I've found to cook coyote and porcupine is to make a chili or stew out of it. I cook the meat in a pressure cooker first so that it's thoroughly cooked and not as tough. From there just throw it in a crock pot for a couple hours just like any other meat you'd put in a stew.

My whole life I had people tell me that spotted dogfish were no good to eat and to just throw them back. After a while I got sick of throwing back what seemed to be an endless supply of big, healthy fish so I took one home to cook. It was terrible. I figured I must have done something wrong so next trip out I decided to try again. This time I cleaned it and packed it in ice while still on the boat. After making a call to a buddy who's a much better cook than I am, I made some adjustments to my recipe and my food prep and tried again. Sure enough it was some of the best fish I'd ever had. To this day I'll take a nice dogfish over a salmon all day every day!

I've come to the conclusion that just about anything is edible if done right. Sometimes you just need to do a little research to figure out the best way to handle it.

Sometimes we shoot something that we have eaten many times and we discover that It is bad So we decide not to eat it. This is the good thing about taking the live animal, You get to see how healthy it was while still alive and the fact that we clean them (At least most of us do) and have control over how the meat is handled and cared for makes it much safer and besides it taste better. (Except for a few things that I don't care to find out how they taste)

I have killed deer, hogs, Turkey,squirrels rabbits and many other game that I thought was bad and did not eat them because i did not want to ruin my taste for them. Knowing how meat is processed, I would much rather eat something that I killed instead of buying it.

Like some others, I will pass on coyote And leave the eating of them to others.

J E CUSTOM

Rats in your eggs. Yes that's right. Your food supply has been contaminated once again. Just check out this mornings news. Perhaps hunting should play a bigger role in what we eat?

How does a rat get into an egg exactly?

Rat poop on the egg shell. So when you handle it then crack to cook you contaminate whatever you are making.

geo4061 said:

Rat poop on the egg shell. So when you handle it then crack to cook you contaminate whatever you are making.

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I have chickens, and I'm certain mice walk on or near our eggs at times.....they also have chicken poop on them at times as well. So.....we wash them lol

codyadams said:

I have chickens, and I'm certain mice walk on or near our eggs at times.....they also have chicken poop on them at times as well. So.....we wash them lol

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Exactly.

Looks like E. Coli is a real problem with our food supply. This is the 2nd or 3rd time there has been a warning from the FDA that Romaine Lettuce was found contaminated.

I'm sorry, but the above eating dog in Nam is 1 thing, but eating a true scavenger, NO, NO, they are filthy animals.

Even after 8 pages of responses, when I read the words "Eating Coyote" the only thing that comes to mind is, why would anyone even try?!

"True scavenger, nasty", no way. I think your image of a coyote is a picture you have seen of one ravaged by disease. The coyote is a hunter extraordinaire. Yes they will pick up on an easy meal but for the most part they are a killer. Cody you are right, just wash your food. However, few of us wash our food or hands at all much less properly. And another reason as to why and try coyote. It would be a pretty dull life if we never tried anything new.

Before I read all this about eating coyote I wondered if maybe it would be edible but then when I shot one I decided no thanks! It's just disgusting! Those varmints will eat anything that once was alive!

Uboatrobert said:

During 1967, in country, 2 Core. I arrived in country the final 2 days of Tet. My 1st 4 months were spent at Plaku as a Trail observer. In June, I was assigned to the 173rd Brigade, 4th Batt, separated, at Touey Wa sub command, as the S-3 Air Force Staff Officer. After Tet, Westmorland met with BG Allen, Brigade Commander and assigned the 173rd complete control of 60% of the area, to include 4 Squadrons of F-100's, 3 Batt's of ROC and Vietnamese, each, and the Navy Base at Vung Ro Bay. Many times we flew by chopper (all roads were unkempt and booby trapped) to the Vietnamese base for meetings, and most always we had lunch with them. Typical lunch fare was passed around the table and I unknowingly took 2 pieces of "something" fried with a strange taste. My Army S-3 asked me if I liked it and I replied it wasn't to bad.....It was a small pup. SO, look and ask questions before eating anything unknown........

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I thought so, PUPS are the only thing I have seen video of Asians cooking.
So maybe it if you got a hold of a coyote PUP and removed tendons and stir fried properly with some spices and hot peppers I would give it a whirl. I have eaten diver duck after all...

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Now ducks...... Driving past a open sewage treatment plant and seeing ducks chowing surface sludge has made me swear off eating duck......Sorry to ruin it for any duck eaters.