Coyote Carcass

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Schleutj

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I have been looking to the forum for an idea about this. So after I get my first coyote, when ever that may be. What do you do with them? I see some skin them and I would like to try that also and do something with the furs. What do you do with the meat and bones? Do you leave them out where you shoot them? I have read that some skin in the field and I would do that as I live kinda in a suburbia but wondering what I would do with the rest?
 
We made a small gambrel that fit in the reciever hitch and would skin in my hunting partners front yard (in the city).
Neighborhood kids were fascinated. Their parents not so much.

But I just feed the buzzards nowadays.
 
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Leave the carcass in an ethical and responsible place for the critters to eat. Away from public view, and definitely not in city limits.
 
I have a little fur shed/canopy alongside the garage. I try to skin in the field but the last two I did in the yard and haul the carcase out to some BLM land for the birds to peck on, think of it as a large suet feeder.
 
I take mine to get skinned/tanned if they're nice. It's getting pretty pricey so I need to start being picky. All the rest get carried and dumped in a carcass pile on the south west corner of my property. I'll check the pile every summer and retrieve any skulls that I can find. Unfortunately, I haven't found too many left behind, and the ones I do find are usually missing teeth. I did find a woodchuck skull fully in tact several years ago and that's sitting on display in my mancave.
 
wolverines said:
I take mine to get skinned/tanned if they're nice. It's getting pretty pricey so I need to start being picky. All the rest get carried and dumped in a carcass pile on the south west corner of my property. I'll check the pile every summer and retrieve any skulls that I can find. Unfortunately, I haven't found too many left behind, and the ones I do find are usually missing teeth. I did find a woodchuck skull fully in tact several years ago and that's sitting on display in my mancave.
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how much does something like that cost in your area?
 
DoubleLungRage said:
how much does something like that cost in your area?
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I just picked one up from last year and paid $75. I heard they will be $125 this year. I don't think the cost of sending them out to the tannery has gone up anywhere near as much as his charge has. I just think they are sick of skinning them :ROFLMAO: When I first started getting them tanned I was giving him $30.
 
wolverines said:
I just picked one up from last year and paid $75. I heard they will be $125 this year. I don't think the cost of sending them out to the tannery has gone up anywhere near as much as his charge has. I just think they are sick of skinning them :ROFLMAO: When I first started getting them tanned I was giving him $30.
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Local guy here is about $200. You can also buy a tanned hide from him off the rack for $150... He buys good yotes for $5 each. Seems like a good business model if you have the time and space
 
Shipping to be tanned will require fleshing and stretching. You will have about 50+ dollars cost for shipping/tanning a single coyote(Moyles fur and tannery). Sending more than one together lowers the cost(less shipping per skin) but per hide tanning cost the same. If I don't put them up myself, I know a farmer who puts up fur. Coyote are 8.50 each, raccoon 4.00. More for "taxidermy" skin(feet/nails intact). I do a mix of these(only quality hair skins) each year. Shipping costs continues to increase. I still have a nice Red Fox(feet on) and one each coyote if someone wants one. I sell at gun shows usually.
 
Yep… I don’t put up fur, and my fur guys don’t want to bother with them anymore. I have one guy that will take them if they’re nice. He sells them as decorative hangers at outdoor shows, flea markets etc.

Last one I had tanned for a hanger was $125, feet on, with the taxidermist doing al the work. That was about 6 or 7 years ago.
 
BBK said:
You can also buy a tanned hide from him off the rack for $150... He buys good yotes for $5 each. Seems like a good business model if you have the time and space
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It would be if people were actually buying them for $150. Maybe your guy does, but I'm pretty sure noone around here is buying a trappers tan for $150.
 
Even when fur prices were healthier, it hardly paid to save them, as the local fur buyer was over an hour round trip. Now he's out of business, and the route guys only stop locally twice a season.

I kinda hate to do it, but I drag mine a ways from point of kills that I intend to call again, and leave them.
 
I sent in a few hides years ago. Never did an actual fleshing or stretching. Simply made sure no chunks of red meat were attached to the hide, turned the lips and ears and salt dried the hides and then sent them in.
 
My first year trapping about 8 years ago I skinned everything…found out real quick Southern fur is worthless if you count your time and freezer space into the equation.
I now have spots on every property I call the “rainbow bridge” where I dump carcasses.
Had one landowner that laughed at my prices when he inquired about predator removal. He said, the furs would be my payment, lol. I told him he could pay my fees and keep the furs himself if he wanted. He declined and started calling “professional trappers” and really got a shock at their prices. He called me back and I politely declined and told him I was full and had no more time to spare for his property. When he calls this year I’ll throw out thermal hunting vs trapping and see what he says, and of course if he wants the fur he’s welcome to pick them up from wherever he designates the “rainbow bridge”.
 
wolverines said:
It would be if people were actually buying them for $150. Maybe your guy does, but I'm pretty sure noone around here is buying a trappers tan for $150.
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He sells them in the local bait shops and small town storefronts too. Always seems to be some missing when i am in. He had a nice badger for sale that i was really tempted on
 
if anyone can skin for the taxidermy profession, so these critters can be mounted. the hides can be sold over at taxidermy.net, they have a for sale and a wanted section.

but you will have to know the laws. really neat colored coyotes, different phases like reds, or black ones can get 100.00 or more
 
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