Coyotes

[DVS73]

With the pending move looming I am curious to know those of you that hunt/decoy coyotes what you do with the bodies?

Is it a case of leave them where they drop? Tuck them away in the brush? Or remove and dispose of in a different way?

I ask as total virgin (keep it clean chaps ) to hunting in Canada as to whether a regular coyote supply would draw in more dangerous beasties that may not be so desired?

Im keen to learn the right way hence my asking

Cheers

 

[The ROC]

Because you asked on a public forum...

After you've read the hunting regulations for the area you're moving to and have removed the pelt, in Ontario coyotes are considered fur-bearing , than watch any of these videos for the perfect recipe.

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Cook+and+clean++coyote+

Mmmmmmm good....

 

[I Dont Care About You]

In Alberta there is no requirement to skin coyotes. You can leave them where they fall if you want. Depends on where you are hunting. Farmers may not want corpses lying about their fields.

 

[Bigbubba]

There’s no requirement in Ontario to remove the pelt if it has no commercial value.

134. A hunter who is licensed or authorized to kill a furbearing mammal is exempt from subsection 36 (3) of the Act and may abandon a pelt or permit a pelt to be spoiled or destroyed if the pelt is of no commercial value. O. Reg. 665/98, s. 134.

Otherwise it needs to be removed

There’s no requirement in Ontario to consume the flesh of fur bearing animals. Only “game” animals.

Look up Ontario e-laws
Search fish and wildlife acts and regs

 

[hobophobe]

In sask...drag em off the field into the bush.

 

[Smokinyotes]

I find it makes great sausage for your in laws and that special brother in law.

 

[lucky07]

There’s no requirement in Ontario to remove the pelt if it has no commercial value.

134. A hunter who is licensed or authorized to kill a furbearing mammal is exempt from subsection 36 (3) of the Act and may abandon a pelt or permit a pelt to be spoiled or destroyed if the pelt is of no commercial value. O. Reg. 665/98, s. 134.

Otherwise it needs to be removed

There’s no requirement in Ontario to consume the flesh of fur bearing animals. Only “game” animals.

Look up Ontario e-laws
Search fish and wildlife acts and regs

Problem with this is, what is their interpretation of "commercial value"?

Coyote pelts are hardly selling at auction for the most part, so logic says they're not worth anything but we all know logic isn't the governments and its minions' strong suit.

 

[Big Bad]

In the Ottawa region, you would have to conceal the body because shooting them is actually forbidden. They might be a wolf from Algonquin Park you see, and sometimes no doubt they are. Right now there's a warning out about this being 'coyote dispersal season' when young yotes are leaving their parents and looking for easy things to eat.

 

[lucky07]

In the Ottawa region, you would have to conceal the body because shooting them is actually forbidden. They might be a wolf from Algonquin Park you see, and sometimes no doubt they are. Right now there's a warning out about this being 'coyote dispersal season' when young yotes are leaving their parents and looking for easy things to eat.

This is complete bull####. Ottawa region is a free for all, all year. There's some ####ery in the zones immediately surrounding algonguin park but that's no where near ottawa.

 

[Bigbubba]

Problem with this is, what is their interpretation of "commercial value"?

Coyote pelts are hardly selling at auction for the most part, so logic says they're not worth anything but we all know logic isn't the governments and its minions' strong suit.

I know guys who shoot them, and they skin the good ones. Don’t know what they do with them. Maybe sell them to Mennonites?

But clearly there’s no “commercial” value in that no one is making a living selling coyote pelts.

 

[Big Bad]

This is complete bull####. Ottawa region is a free for all, all year. There's some ####ery in the zones immediately surrounding algonguin park but that's no where near ottawa.

I don't appreciate the bull#### word but I checked and you are partly right, killing them is now allowed here, but in many regions only if you buy a special seasonal tag, it's not always 'a free for all, all year.' (I don't say it shouldn't be, for the yotes at least).

https://www.ontario.ca/document/ontario-hunting-regulations-summary/wolf-and-coyote

Shooting them was prohibited here for quite a few years though, that may have changed because of some pressure from people that were encountering them in high risk ways, the coyotes I mean.

 

[lucky07]

I know guys who shoot them, and they skin the good ones. Don’t know what they do with them. Maybe sell them to Mennonites?

But clearly there’s no “commercial” value in that no one is making a living selling coyote pelts.

Probably sending the nicer ones to the fur auction. Last auction in north bay was in june and coyotes were mainly unsold. March auction 71% sold but average for easterns was 22 canadian pesos. Hardly even woth the trouble of skinning the damn things.

The big money in june for easy to get species was skunks, 100% sold with an average of 105 bucks.

 

[Shovel]

What do they do with skunk hides? Seems like a lot for a small pelt.

 

[DFarmer]

This coyote was found "trespassing" on the farm

 

[FLHTCUI]

In sask...drag em off the field into the bush.

Same as BC.....

 

[struff55]

well there you have it if you don't want to read the refs in your region for the correct answer you get to sort thru all these interpretations
for what that's worth

 

[0faustus0]

I don't appreciate the bull#### word but I checked and you are partly right, killing them is now allowed here, but in many regions only if you buy a special seasonal tag, it's not always 'a free for all, all year.' (I don't say it shouldn't be, for the yotes at least).

https://www.ontario.ca/document/ontario-hunting-regulations-summary/wolf-and-coyote

Shooting them was prohibited here for quite a few years though, that may have changed because of some pressure from people that were encountering them in high risk ways, the coyotes I mean.

Ontario Zone 65 and 64B (Ottawa) .... the only requirement is that you have a small game license. There is no tag requirement. This means you can shoot as many coyotes as you want with a small game license all year long. And it has been like this for many years.

From the regs ...

Ontario Zone 65 and 64B

Open Season: All year
Tag Requirement: None

Anyone wishing to hunt wolf or coyote must have the following:
• Outdoors Card
• Small Game Licence listed on your LicenceSummary or on the back of your Outdoors Card
• Wolf/Coyote Tag (in WMUs where a tag isrequired) valid for the current calendar year
• proof of firearm accreditation

 

[Robert Dalton]

Coyotes are considered nuisance animals here , so no regulations outside of having a small game or nuisance license . I drag the carcass into the bushes out of sight as I don't want the uninformed running to Natural Resources , and claiming that someone is shooting people's pets as some can't tell the difference between a coyote , and a family dog .

 

[Dogleg]

Here they are pests, no closed season, no licence, no limit. Let the birds eat them. Ironically if you wanted to keep worthless pelts for whatever reason you should have a trappers licence and pay the royalties. Gubberment

 

[canadian hunter312]

There’s no requirement in Ontario to remove the pelt if it has no commercial value.

134. A hunter who is licensed or authorized to kill a furbearing mammal is exempt from subsection 36 (3) of the Act and may abandon a pelt or permit a pelt to be spoiled or destroyed if the pelt is of no commercial value. O. Reg. 665/98, s. 134.

Otherwise it needs to be removed

There’s no requirement in Ontario to consume the flesh of fur bearing animals. Only “game” animals.

Look up Ontario e-laws
Search fish and wildlife acts and regs

That law is in place so that people aren’t forced to take clearly worthless hides and process them for no return. They’re talking mange, shot up beyond sewing, torn up by other coyotes (while in a trap), or other damage making the hide worthless.

This is not some loophole that hunters can use to toss coyotes in the bush because they don’t feel like skinning the critter or auction prices are low.

According to the local CO anyways who explained it very clearly to me.