Wish I had a picture to share, but I did not have my phone with me today.

I found a deer carcass on my property in Jack County. Small deer, probably a younger doe, possibly a fawn.

The carcass was laying on its side, all four leg bones intact, almost like it was asleep. It was 98% bones. Some small amounts of hair and meat remained, but it had been gnawed on / devoured pretty thoroughly.

My question is: what ate it?

I would think a pack of coyotes would have pulled it apart in multiple directions.

My guesses:

*large bobcat
*cougar
*coons?? (Assuming the deer died from disease)

Maybe I'm missing something obvious.

Many carnivores probably dined on it. Birds as well. Cougar, bobcat or coyotes more than likely would have torn it apart and scattered it somewhat so highly doubt they did much. Female cougar would have dragged it and covered it up.
Probably a mixture of mice, rats, coons, foxes, feral cats, opossum and various birds like crows, owls and hawks or any other scavenger carrion birds. They can clean it up pretty good.

Probably froze to death. Like it was said above, small carnivores dined on it.

Black vultures, caracaras and turkey vultures will often do a good job of cleaning a carcass before mammalian scavengers get to it.

Had to be vultures.

Appreciate the feedback.

Deer probably died and then birds cleaned it up

OP. Are you seeing turkey vultures at this time of year in Jack County? They typically migrate to southern counties during the cold months and caracaras aren't that plentiful up around Graham and Olney… that's pretty north for them. Wondering if you are seeing black vultures? They don't move south for winter.
They don't act anything like the turkey vultures and are becoming problematic in some areas because of their behavior of aggressiveness.