Coyote Pelt = $??.??
Hi guys!
How much do you guys get for your Coyote pelts?
How much do you guys get for your Coyote pelts?
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last year i trapped coyotes and anywhere from 5.00 for a coydog pic of it above (it was very nice just that all the guard hairs were red...they cant match it up with normal coyotes for coats and such is all) to 60.00 haven't started trapping yet this year and haven't heard any prices yet...thats northern coyotes in south dakota0 -
Midwest coyotes are predicted to be in the $10-25 range this winter. We've already had enough cold weather to "set the fur" as the old timers called it. Last year, the temps really didn't get down to this cold until well into the winter so it's possible yoties will be worthwhile.
IMHO
Fur buyers are swindlers. They play a gamble and use your work as collateral. If a buyer isn't going to pay me enough to haul the fur to his place of business, I'll kill the critters and leave them where they fall. I've heard that a buyer is paying $XX for hides only to go there and get $X. I get the idea that the buyer may be paying his local trappers/friends higher than his walk-ins.
We used to trap 100-200 raccoons per year and often took 40-60 per load to a buyer 60 miles away. After hauling 65 coons to sell and coming home with $25 after buying the gas to drive there, I said "I'm done" with that Dude. Last year, I hauled 22 coons 45 miles to a buyer and if I hadn't already been going that way on business, I would have barely broke even.
Three years ago, a 2# muskrat ($4) was worth more than a 20# coon($3). We bought enough rat traps to make setting worthwhile and the rat prices dropped to $1.50 each. If you're not "ahead of the curve", you may go in the hole.0 -
went to a huge old building in Alberqerk NM once years ago ...hide buyer central...never saw so many of different critters anywhere 0 -
What's the best thing to do with a coyote after you shoot one? Skin it for a pelt? Eat it? or leave it there for whatever wants to eat it? 0 -
I don't recommend eating coyote meat. Wild canids can carry some pretty nasty diseases/parasites that I would not expose myself to unless starving(and maybe not even then).
Coyotes are tough to skin so depending on your skill level, you could end up with an hour's time into the $10(or less if you muck it up)pelt plus the cost of either getting it tanned or taking it to a fur buyer who's gong to cheat you out of that hour's time.
I do drag the carcass out of the field and maybe leave it hanging on a fence post. One local sheepman asked the coyote hunters to hang all their trophies on his perimeter fence in hopes the all the dead ones would send a message to the remaining live ones. We did that for years with the skinned carcasses and the farmer said he hadn't seen a yotie inside his fence.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Mobuck
I don't recommend eating coyote meat. Wild canids can carry some pretty nasty diseases/parasites that I would not expose myself to unless starving(and maybe not even then).
Coyotes are tough to skin so depending on your skill level, you could end up with an hour's time into the $10(or less if you muck it up)pelt plus the cost of either getting it tanned or taking it to a fur buyer who's gong to cheat you out of that hour's time.
I do drag the carcass out of the field and maybe leave it hanging on a fence post. One local sheepman asked the coyote hunters to hang all their trophies on his perimeter fence in hopes the all the dead ones would send a message to the remaining live ones. We did that for years with the skinned carcasses and the farmer said he hadn't seen a yotie inside his fence.
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we have killed a lot of them over the years , skint most of them, the ones we did not skin we drug from the field . the only thing I ever saw eat one of them things was a crow. 0
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