Small Game, Predator and TrappingFrom shooting squirrels in your backyard to calling coyotes in Arizona. This forum now contains trapping information..
I don't like them, why?
Back in the day when hides were good, I made a bunch of money puttin fur away, foxes mostly, they were abundant and valuable, I remember getting 47.00 for greys and 60.00 for reds when I was 20 years old.
coyotes started coming here about 15 years ago, they fill the same niche in the ecosystem as fox, bobcats, and bears. they are alot more destructive to farmers, eat more and of no value once you kill them.
Hunters and trappers do not target them because though there is no money in fur now, there is less in coyotes.
Todays prices for fur here runs as high as 27.00 for a grey fox, 22.00 for a coon, not sure about reds, but if you have alot of yotes you have almost no other furbearers, why not hunt yotes?
I've killed enough that the novelty is gone and after you have a yote on the ground, ya skin, flesh, stretch, split the tail, remove cartilledge from the ears clean and brush, market an eastern coyote and 8.00-15.00 is top money.
So what benefit are they? JMO
RR
I've never looked at the harvest numbers compared to the export contracts, but it really seems like a coyote should be worth at least as much as a coon, if not more, but that's just not the case.
But then again, a skunk should be worth more than a quarter, but them's the breaks...
I figure we get what we get on prices, ultimately we get paid for doing something we enjoy. I like to use anything I hunt, so the least I can do is sell the hide. I can skin a coon in about 10min, a coyote within 12-15, so I figure if I get $8 for a coyote I'm makin decent hourly wage. We usually get a dollar or two more for a skinned hide vs a whole carcass, and maybe $3-5 more for salted (not worth doing), and I can fit a LOT more pelts in my freezer than whole carcasses, so selling raw pelts makes the most sense for me.
What happened to the fur market was when the tree huggers in California could not stop the trapping, they went after the fur market. The biggest market for raw fur's is in Europe. So they got a U.S. export bill passed where no one in the U.S. can export raw furs anymore and down came the U.S. market. I have very little use for most of the people in California. Before I get bombarded from the good folk that do live in California, it is just the large number of tree huggers that reside they that gives California a bad rap. Micheal Moore, Jane Fonda, Nancy P. [can't spell her name] and all her cronies Etc. Jim
South-Eastern Yotes never prime out the way midwest and Northern yotes do - even in the dead of winter. The hides are essentially worthless, often mangey. Now the skulls, you can get almost 3 times what the hide is worth from a properly cleaned skull to the right buyer. I like to keep these as trophies if I trap a large adult, and sell'em if I feel like it. Trapping yotes in the SE is almost entirely for protection of livestock/deer populations. A yote isn't gonna kill a full grown cow or deer, but they can kill new born's in the 1st 24 hrs. Also they are death on turkey nests, chicks, rabbit, grouse and quail populations.
If you like to raise chickens/turkeys, a couple of yotes can wipe out your stock in a few nights if not dealt with swiftly.
Hunting/farming (I do both) don't mix with yotes. Blast'em all year-round!
Fur's are still exported, so you'll have to find something different to blame the poor fur market on. The economy as whole, is more to blame then anything. Fur is a luxury, poor economy makes people cut out luxury items first, hence, low demand for fur. Read all about it here:http://www.trapperpredatorcaller.com...-good-for-fur/
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but like was posted earlier, the eastern yotes will never be worth what a western silky is, reguardless of why an eastern yote pelt will bring 8-15 bucks, nobody in they're right mind will put the time in to put them up for that.
RR
True dat.....but even our western coyotes didn't sell for didley last year and not much better this year. I couldn't give'em away last year and have been able to sell them in the round this year from $10-$14.
But these CO. coyotes aren't the best of the best, gotta go north to find the best, worth the most, good coyote furs. Dakota's, Idaho, WY.
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my opinion of eastern coyotes
