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Why won’t buzzards eat dead dogs!?
Posted on 6/14/23 at 7:34 pm
Posted on 6/14/23 at 7:34 pm
I’ll hang up and listen
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Posted on 6/14/23 at 7:50 pm to R11
Same reason fleas and ticks don't bite them anymore.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 10:03 pm to R11
Im assuming by buzzard you mean what’s commonly known as buzzards - turkey vultures or black vultures - and not buzzard hawks.
Given the choice vultures actually prefer to eat herbivores. If they have enough herbivore meat to eat in an area they will typically pass on carnivores/omnivores.
Another misconception is that they like rotted meat. Vultures actually like fresher meat - usually only a couple of days old and once it’s rotted they won’t really touch it.
So it’s not that they won’t eat a dog it’s just that they prefer not to.
Given the choice vultures actually prefer to eat herbivores. If they have enough herbivore meat to eat in an area they will typically pass on carnivores/omnivores.
Another misconception is that they like rotted meat. Vultures actually like fresher meat - usually only a couple of days old and once it’s rotted they won’t really touch it.
So it’s not that they won’t eat a dog it’s just that they prefer not to.
Posted on 6/14/23 at 11:19 pm to BigBinBR
My experience is that they won’t eat dead dogs,coyotes or coons.They love dead cows,pigs and armadillos.Also deer guts and rib cages.
This post was edited on 6/14/23 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 6/15/23 at 10:31 am to R11
I have seen them drag a dead pit bull out of the bushes and go to town on it.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 10:58 am to R11
Because dogs are nasty evidently.
A starving buzzard will walk over 6 dead dogs to fight over the last speck of a possum carcass.
A starving buzzard will walk over 6 dead dogs to fight over the last speck of a possum carcass.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 11:22 am to R11
Never seen buzzards in my area avoid dead dog meat, only dead vulture meat.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 11:43 am to BigBinBR
quote:Thanks for this.
Given the choice vultures actually prefer to eat herbivores. If they have enough herbivore meat to eat in an area they will typically pass on carnivores/omnivores.
Another misconception is that they like rotted meat. Vultures actually like fresher meat - usually only a couple of days old and once it’s rotted they won’t really touch it.
So it’s not that they won’t eat a dog it’s just that they prefer not to.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 12:03 pm to AlxTgr
Yea,
Posted on 6/15/23 at 12:33 pm to R11
Seen them on a armadillo in the road before he is thru flopping! Like ice cream to them
Posted on 6/15/23 at 12:42 pm to R11
Do they eat road kill gators? Seems like I see the carcasses just sitting for awhile with little to no action.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 2:14 pm to R11
Who says they won't? I've seen it many times.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 4:17 pm to Darbonne1
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Seen them on a armadillo in the road before he is thru flopping! Like ice cream to them
Comes on its own platter
Posted on 6/15/23 at 7:51 pm to R11
Chinese vultures do not. They wok the shite out of em
Posted on 6/15/23 at 10:19 pm to LSUA 75
quote:
My experience is that they won’t eat dead dogs,coyotes or coons.They love dead cows,pigs and armadillos
guess it depends on whats available/what theyre used to. I feed them coons all the time, but ive seen wild boars on the side of the road sit there for weeks untouched.
Posted on 6/15/23 at 10:29 pm to R11
Many scavengers including birds and mammals won’t eat dead beaches marine mammals. They just sit on the beach getting all bloated until some of them literally explode.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 12:37 pm to R11
In my experience they also don't eat dead Javalenas. I've shot a few on my property and they haven't touched them. They smell like skunks, not sure if that has something to do with it.
Posted on 6/16/23 at 3:58 pm to R11
That's a myth buzzards enjoy a dead dog second only to a possum
Posted on 6/16/23 at 8:59 pm to R11
They aren't Asian
Posted on 3/3/24 at 8:53 am to BigBinBR
Actually here in SW Louisiana black vultures & turkey Vultures (buzzards) WILL NOT EAT a dog that's been killed along the road. They will clean up the carcasses by eating any other animal killed along the road but not dog. You have to drag them off the road to get rid of them.
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