Be sure to check your regulations before you use em. Here in Nevada you’d be in deep trouble if any part of the chicken were exposed, within 30 feet of a foothold, even so much as a single feather. Any bait used has to be concealed, not visible from any angle.

True here too Bob, but as long as its in a hole or covered from birds of prey it is useable. I have raised chickens here as a farm flock for 25 years (15-25 let out every morning and locked up every night). When they die of old age, they go into the freezer for later use as bait. In all the years of doing this, I have had poor results in using them as canine bait/attractors. Coons and mink are really attracted and skunks and opossums don't seem to pass them up. For coyotes they seem to be sub par compared to other meat baits for me. The only damage and measurable success I have had was in the winter of '09-'10 when the snow was extremely deep and frequent. I lost 7 roosters to coyotes as their hunger brought them to the edge of my farmstead looking for a meal and I caught a few. In a normal winter canine food (mice, voles, rabbits, deer, carrion etc.) is readily available and chickens seem to be a low attractor on the menu list where I trap. ....................... the mike

We have laws against visible baits here as well. What I have will fit in a dirthole. I think I'm just gonna salt up a quart to try, not let it get too far from fresh and see what happens. If nothing else, I will target skunks and possum for a week to knock the numbers down, just hate to throw them out. Incubator is full again, might have a few more

Have chicken away from trap as coyote will roll in it as does a dog. If chicken is rotten with maggots will make it more attractive yet.

There was a guy 50 years ago .He would dig a hole with a post hole diger put a dead chicken in it set feathers on fire cover with dirt.Two traps each side of hole.He caught a lot of coyotes this way.