Why don't coyotes eat road kill?
That's my assumption from what I've observed over the years. Includes observing a road kill doe last year and another this year, both left in the ditch a couple hundred feet from our mailbox. They just seemed to rot away, no sign of anything feeding on them. (FWIW the house is so far back from the road we couldn't smell them no matter how bad they stunk.) Same elsewhere in my travels, I see lots of deer, the occasional hog, or the very occasional cow/steer lying in the ditches and seems like the only animals that scavenge road kill are the buzzards, and they seem to limit their scavenging to the small animals that haven't been ground into the pavement yet. (Yes, understand buzzards don't have the beak design and strength to open up an animal like a deer.)

That might not be roadkill,you're pretty close to Hop's stompin grounds. Those could be his roadside feeders and word gets around in the yote community.

Why don't buzzards eat dead buzzards? They darn sure eat dead deer and hogs around here,but see a road kill buzzard and it will melt away.

I assume because they are too weary of cars, some poachers dropped two deer on my land and coyotes have ate them both, but both are in the wooded part of my acreage. They never touch the road kill deer on the road or in the ditches and there are no less than 25 a year killed by my acreage.

This year Ive had coyote on my trail cam almost every time Ive pulled the card. They keep coming and peeing on the salt block in front of it...

Yep, they are naturally skittish and the vehicles will startle them. Nothing seems to eat pigs where I hunt. Daughter shot one in December and the 5 or 6 carcasses that had been there 2 weeks were untouched. We have a designated pig dump. One of my favorites moments was dragging a sow there for about a mile and a couple hundred yards away the Little Piggies started playing on Sat radio.

We have a helluva population of buzzards here. About 7-8 years ago someone dumped a dead horse on our lease. Over 50 buzzards at a time worked on it for 2-3 days. They will do the same on critters from snake and squirrel size up to the big critters.

They like fresh blood.

Why would they wanna stand in the road and eat something that got run over while on the road!

Deff not that, they eat dead deer on my land, they been chewing on one that I thought was picked clean every night, tons of tracks in the snow. They been coming up to my gut pile area also.

They don't like the roadkill Ethanol.

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I drag the dead hogs out back for coyote bait, works great. buzzards do a number on them but the yotes are always there too, most of the time late at night.

traffic will keep em back from the roads, too jumpy to hang out long with vehicles blowing by. I rarely see a yote that has been run over and there is a huge population of them out here.

If they are starving they will, otherwise they too smart to get run over by a car.

On the large hogs we leave in the field i have found you have to cut them up a little bit so the buzzards can get started on them.

Interesting.