I've skinned a coyote and I can tell you that of all the animals I have skinned, hog, deer, alligator, anything, this was the toughest. I don't know if it was just the one I did, but it was amazingly greasy. The hide is very tough, and it was COVERED in ticks, I would be weary of eating one of them. They are leggy animals that don't have an amazing amount of meat on them, but what is there is pretty lean, and I would imagine tough as leather.