Eaten Alive

Here are a few pics from clarington near Orono that some may find interesting, Who says coyotes don't take down healthy deer this was a healthy six point buck that was passed on during the bow season, note the ground blind in the background collapsed from the ice storm early this winter

Are these your pictures or someone else. I don't see any blood on the snow

That's how they took down that buck in my yard a few years back...attacked the back of his legs.

Great pics, shows how it happens. The yotes sure moved in after dark on the blood trail.

I don't think I have heard that they don't take down healthy deer, rather there are many things they would take before attempting a healthy deer. Those yotes must be desperate.

Those Yotes go right for the tender areas. Unfortunately, a Buck may escape with his life but not his testicles.

They'll take down anything, " healthy or not" at any time that they can get their teeth into it.

Because it's so difficult to get permission for private property in this area,there's more coyotes than you shake a stick at.

Don't be fooled.

I have seen them take down 1100 lb Black Angus feed lot steers and I know there were rabbits, mice, turkey, deer, etc. on that 1200 acre farm.

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Originally Posted by skypilot

Don't be fooled.

I have seen them take down 1100 lb Black Angus feed lot steers and I know there were rabbits, mice, turkey, deer, etc. on that 1200 acre farm.

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Extremely rare, yotes will feed on insects, berries and anything else they can eat including dead carcasus they come across. Do they take bigger animals, sure they do but we don't know the circumstances behind these pics. Was that deer injured from the hunting season, had it been clipped by a car (we know the answer to neither of these). Yotes are very cunning animals and would much rather take the easy prey rather than risking injury or death trying for something healthy and bigger unless really hungry.

S1, the reason I believe that this healthy little buck was such easy prey for the yotes is that after the severe ice storm that we had on already deep snow the yotes could walk and run across the top while the deer were busting through, reason I know this is because I walked into another area just after the ice storm and witnessed this, I'm quite sure there are many more deer that fell victim for this reason in southern ont. so not only has this affected the deer population then add the severity of the winter we have almost made it through, how have these two factors affected our deer population? I am afraid to even imagine!