Coyote hunting... what do i do now?

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So i grew up on a farm and i've got my share of yotes, but i never went looking for them. they were harrassing the livestock, they got killed. we never really did anything with the carcass. I've been reading all these threads on coyote hunting lately and i want to get back into it, howevever i've always had the belief of don't shoot something for no reason. So i shoot a yote, skin it etc, what do i do with the pelt?

Sorry if this sounds like a noobish question, but i don't save my deerhides either and i've never gone for a bear so i really have no idea what to do with the hide afer it's off the meat... i've always been more concerned with the meat lol.
 
Its too late in the season to get the best buck for a coyote pelt. The guard hairs are worn down from variouse things but mostly lying in the snow.

When they are taken earlier, you can sell them whole(no skinning required) or do it youre self, but that would take up too much time to explain.... youre best off finding a trapper or fur handler in youre local area to teach you how they are done up for market.

Theres some nice pelts in the west, but sadly prices are down and the oil patch pays better than the fur market...:(
 
well i know the hutterites around my area buy them but not to sounds racist, but i don't like dealing with them. who else would buy them? where would i be able to find that info out? and so long as they're not covered in fleas or mange i have no problem skinning them myself (probably wouldn't be the best job in the world).

also if i were to skin it myself and want to say... make some mittens or something, what do i have to do to the hide before i take it to my grandma to sew up somethin for me?
 
Most guys send the furs to the fur marketing board for auction. To use them for mitts and such you need to get the hide tanned. Talk to your local taxidermist for best info. To get rid of fleas put coyote in a garbage bag and let go with some Raid, if it has mange leave it.
 
The fur market is so depressed right now that I saw it eyeing a full bottle of oxazepam and a razor blade. It's about to get worse; there have been open hunts declared on these creatures in Ontario; there is even a clinic on Manitoulin Island this weekend on how to hunt them, and what do with them once you shoot them.

The chap that is putting on the clinic was interviewed on CBC radio, and when asked what to do with the furs, he seemed at a loss for words, but finally admitted that you could sell them at auction for next to nothing, or just hang them on your wall.

But don't let me discourage you all from trying out some varmint loads. The coyote population is large enough (in Ontario, anyway) that next year's dear populations are expected to dip a bit. They also eat little children and vandalize school yards, so I say giv'em hell!
 
i'm not doing it to make money, it's more the fact that i don't hunt something just to kill it. if i wanted to do that i could go kill paper at the range. I hunt deer to eat, i hunt gophers because they dig holes all over the place i used to hunt coyotes becasue they would eat livestock, now that i don't live on the farm i have no reason to hunt coyotes, so i don't. My parents are still on the farm, but i'm not... so my reasoning was going to be for the pelts. Punching paper gets boring i enjoy "real" targets. so i don't care about the compensation aspect of it, i just hate to waste an animal.
 
So talk to some farmers and get permission to help them with their coyote problem. I have been called by local people several times after they lost a cat, or dog, or poultry, or the odd steer to come out and thin out the population. Most farmers with any kind of livestock will welcome a trusted coyote hunter, and you have a more ethical reason.
 
well if i go back to the farm i know everone and every peice of land around there and have have permission to hunt on 99% of teh land in that area so it wouldn't be a big deal. It's more the fact that i feel obligated to do something with these animals now. when i was younger i didn't, but i'm almost starting to feel bad just leaving them to rot... almost.... so i figured i'd ask you knowlegeable people what to do with these pups... so far i still don't have much of a clue lol
 
There is no price that makes the fur worth doing unless you want a couple yourself. There ARE lots of reasons coyote numbers need to be controlled. There ARE people out there having real issues and losing real money to coyote predators who have lost their fear, and are using their cunning to steal and kill pets and small livestock.

Your desire to "utilize" the animal is just fine. Sometimes you just can't.

My wife used to bug me about shooting gophers, even when farmers bought me ammunition to do it, because we just left them and they were cute. One day a family of gophers moved in under the shed in the neighbor's yard. First she noticed some garden damage and complained, but one day she stormed into the house and yelled at me, "I want those gophers dead, and I want them dead now!" I got the pellet gun and a lawn chair and solved her problem. Since then I get to shoot gophers whenever I like without hassle.

Sometimes, "utilizing" the animal just isn't part of the equation.
 
yea i've never felt bad about shooting gophers the little ####s lol. i suppsoe i'll keep shootin the pups the same way i always have and not worry about it then.
 
Skin them, cased, flesh them on a fleshing beam, wash them in an old washing machine, cold water, stretch them on the proper stretching board. Don't forget to turn the ears and split the tail. Ship to NAFA in Toronto, wait for fur check. You will not make enough cash to make it worth the time. I do around a 100 a year, coyote and fox, just because.
 
Hello:

Video - How To Skin A Coyote

http://www.foremostcoyotehunting.com/2011/02/video-how-to-skin-coyote.html

Regards,

Chizzy
 
The way I see it they probably taste like sh-- crap ,so that leaves 2 options. Sell the hides or don't hunt them. Alternately with enough beer you may get accustomed to the taste ! Lol
 
Hey ndb86!! You say you used to shoot them on the farm when you lived there because you were helping out. Well, go back to the farm and keep helping!! I live in the city but have permission to hunt several nearby ranches and farms and go there regularily. I also get called by others to have a go on thier places. Calving season is coming, deer are yarded up and thin from the tough winter and coyotes are plentiful. Last year we had a bounty on yotes in SK and there were 70K plus coyotes paid for. Despite that there seem to be more of them than last winter!!! If you shoot them and leave them you are feeding other coyotes and scavengers thus possibly saving a deer or calf or two!! Good luck!!
 
Yeah the bounty here in sk last year did nothing, since November we have tagged 33 yotes within a 5 mile radius of our farm. We gave away most of them to a guy that skins, but he says the fir is getting bad now and to just leave them in the field.

I don't feel a bit bad about leaving them in the field either as we lost 12 calves last year and even lost a cow, we walked out to check and the coyotes had eaten her ass out while she was calving and couldn't get away. I wish I could find the insurance pictures for everyone to show the antis.
 
Skin and stretch then ship to NAFA.
Sell 'in the round' locally.
Pay the Hutterites to skin and prep for sale
Skin and tan for your wall or sale on ebay.

I just talked to some Hutterites who averaged $50 a hide this year at the auction.


BTW if you shoot the brown ones they have no fleas.
 
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