Like Sheridan said, the more you do with the hide, the more you'll get paid.
I sell to 3 different buyers, this year, in general they're giving $6-10 for a whole carcass or raw pelt, $15-20 fleshed and salted, and $35ish for a finished hide. I occasionally skin them out a sort of special way so I leave the feet and claws intact, when doing this, I can get $30-50 for a raw pelt, or $50-70 for a finished hide. Or at that point, I actually have a better market selling them direct myself, for $100+ each.
The DOWN side to processing your own hides is that if you don't know what you're doing, you can destroy any value you had in the hide. If you over-scrape the hide a lot and start showing through hair roots (that hair will then fall out with use), they might not even buy the salted hide from you, when they WOULD have bought a whole carcass or raw pelt. Getting $10 is better than nothing, especially if you spent time fleshing one out.
Some buyers don't take raw pelts or raw carcasses, some don't buy finished hides. Fleshed, stretched, and salted seems to be the only way that I know that EVERY buyer will take them. I actually have one buyer that will give more for a carcass than a raw pelt until you've sold to him a few times (a lot of guys in that area must suck at skinning!). So ultimately, it really depends on your buyer what he'll take.
On the other hand, most counties in KS will still give $2 bounties for a coyote ear. Some counties are even giving $20 this year for an ear. It's all set up through the parks/wildlife dept, as part of our state's population management plan.
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Yote Hides
