Coues Snack?

[IHunt2live]

Have any of you seen this before? I ran across this last time I want out and I never have noticed agaves being eaten like this. I'm pretty certian it was coues. To high up for javis and deer tracks at the base of the plant. Would make sence with them being full of water. I figured they eat about two feet of the stock. Pretty fresh to.

[Buckhorn]

Was there Bear tracks anywhere around?

 

Buckhorn

[IHunt2live]

Was there Bear tracks anywhere around?

 

Buckhorn

 

 

I don't belive so but I could have looked closer

[bowhuntinmaniac]

Nothing is too high up for javelina........they are around Williams.

[firstcoueswas80]

Nothing is too high up for javelina........they are around Williams.

 

 

 

i believe he was talking about to high on the plant

[azcouesandelk]

I have seen deer snack on the spikes but never on the stock. I am sure that they will. Interesting find and keep us posted if you do come across a deer chewing on one.

[fatfootdoc]

Sure they can eat that, after all it is just a GIANT asparagus after all, Gee I wonder what their pee smells like after eating an asparagus that big ag

[Rembrant]

Looks like bear damage. They love these things, but their main interest is the fruit. I've seen where a bear has broken down an century plant and left it cause the fruit wasn't ripe (kinda like they don't get on the pears until they're ripe either). The damaged daggers look broken as opposed to chewed - more bear evidence.

However, whitetails and elk will pull the daggers of the plant and eat the succulant bottoms. One time I watched a Texas whitetail chewing on the bottom of an agave and the dagger was rotating around and around like a big one-bladed propeller.

Maybe the broken-up plant smelled good to a whitetail and thus the tracks.

Mike

[DesertBull]

I think with water as scarce as it is right now, they will chew on anything with moisture.

[coueshunter84]

Actually it was probably a cow. Bovines have quite the affenity for those. No idea why, but they will eat them all the way down to nothing.

[IHunt2live]

I don't think that it was a cow. There hasn't been cows up in these parts for years. I'm begining to wonder if it could have been bear. Theres not much bears in the area but we will see one every few years. I feel like a dough head for not looking at the tracks better. I set up my trail cam on a trail not to far away. Looking foward to what I might see, I just have to leave it alone for another couple of weeks.