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Wondering how people are making out with the yotes this year. Any results with the disease as mites and mange in areas. Also what prices are getting for the furs
 
I have shot a few Ontario coyotes since mid-November and this far they have been in excellent condition with very thick,.healthy pelts... how that will translate in value is anyone's guess.
 
I lost track of fur prices not long after I stopped trapping over ten years ago. Expenses cut deeper into an already small margin. So the animal rights nutcases think they are winning, but all the nuisance animals that would have been used for clothes just get shot and tossed anyway. Beaver was the mainstay around here, but along with those muskrat, otter, mink, fisher, fox, coyote. Of those the only pelts that made a fair return for the labor was muskrat, otter, mink, fisher and fox... not highest on the nuisance graph. Coyote never returned well but I was good at snaring them: lots of them around which bothers farmers.

Following this thread out of interest.
 
Since Dec. I have shot 9. All had good fur. No Mange or other fur loss. All trappers here in Ont.
say price not worth the effort , so I shoot & off to bush.
 
It kinda seems to vary with who you talk to I have talked to a few guys who are usually at least a little higher up the chain as far as knowing what's going on and they all say it's eerily quiet and nobody knows much.
The towns with major fur markets are still in lockdown so there is not much fur being used/moved and with them having a surplus from last year it's not looking good to be a boom fur year by any means.
From this end of things I have talked or sold to a few guys who are hoping the auction still brings an ok amount ($60-80 avg) and are still buying frozen coyotes for an avg 30 with a top of 40-45 any hide with damages or bad fur is being discounted extremely hard this year.
As far as mange and mites I have run into a few of them but it seems to mainly be around feedlots or places with higher densities of coyotes.
 
Canadian Sig said:
Landing at Vancouver International last week there were two of them haning out on the taxiway. Was surprised to see them in the city.
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Not surprising... a fair number of birds get whacked at airports... the coyotes are the cleaning crew.
 
This was an interesting thread as I was wondering about this today as I travelled to Ottawa and back looking at the fields. Years ago (late 70's early 80's) in southern Saskatchewan I ran a trapline to make money for snowmobile gas, and save for university each winter. I was explaining to my wife what I would get for a pelt back then:
Mink - $100 - $120
Beaver - $35 - stopped trapping them as it was too much work for too little return
Muskrat - $5 each simple to trap and easy to clean so continued with these
Raccoon - $30 - did not like the fur personally so stopped
Fox - $300
Coyote - $600 - these were harder to get as the snow plow drivers in the area always had a rifle and would shoot all they could see.
Back then where I was living it was tossing bales in the summer and trapping in the winter to save money. Certainly not worth the effort now based on the prices I just looked at. Thanks for sharing the links to the auctions. It has been decades since I sent furs to Regina or Winnipeg to the auctions.
 
My brother in law just sold some to a travelling fur buyer. He got $40 for good ones and $25 for poorer quality. I got $100 from the same buyer last year. He’s going to sell his remaining 60 or so at auction. Unfortunately I never got out this year! We are in Manitoba.
 
I don't think the price for eastern coyote makes it worth the effort but the law doesn't allow you to let a good pelt go to waste. So I guess you have to skin, scrape and dry. Take to the auction and not sell it for enough to cover your gas. Or not sell at all and throw away on the way home.
Met a trapper this fall moose hunting and he was working one new dam that had flooded a road that we had planned on driving the trucks through and he said what he will get will just cover his gas. He lived about 100 km away. He said if he didn't trap he would loose his license. With Covid the mills were not running too high a capacity so he had time on his hands.
 
Canadian Sig said:
Landing at Vancouver International last week there were two of them haning out on the taxiway. Was surprised to see them in the city.
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Really? They are a regular occurence here. I had one in the back yard once and I live within a half-hour walk to Chinatown.
 
3 out of 4 in the last couple weeks have been mangy, 2 were chupacabra mangy don't think it is going to be pretty this year. Last year we shipped about 30 out of 49. SW ontario
 
There were a couple cross our outback and they
were in fine mid-winter coat .
Not sure what the prices are just that the dogs around here
rate a high pelt-worth dollar.
 
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