Coyotoe pelts
 

A friend of mine has a serious coyotoe problem on his property. We are going to take care of it this weekend. I was wondering if any of y'all had dealings with a Taxidermist that would be willing to take multiple pelts as a payment for one finished pelt I can mount on my wall. I don't want to kill them and have them go to waste. I have tried calling a couple of places around but wasn't able to get ahold of anyone. All & all I'm just wondering what the chances of one accepting other pelts as payment would be or just taking them off my hands. Like I mentioned before I don't want them to go to waste.

I WOULD GUESS IF YOU LOOKED AROUND YOU COULD FIND ONE WILLING TO DO THAT.but offhand I CAN'T POINT YOU TO ONE.

WHERE ARE YOU ? STATE?

I forgot to post I'm in missouri, sorry about that. His property is around Bowling Green Missouri. I called 3 places one said they wouldn't the other never answered of course.

You will not be taking care of a coyote problem in one weekend, probably not even make a dent in the population.

most likely not even in a year. but have a ball trying.

You can certainly sell them to a taxidermist, if you are willing to sell them cheap !!!

It all adds up...............................!

I've told him the same thing. I know there is no way we will be able to get them all but he is pretty determined to try. It's going to be a blast trying to

My estimation based on fur prices would be that you'd need to pass over around 6-8 hides to get one tanned for you. Since you're in Misery (intentional misspell), then I'll expect fur prices are in the $15-20 for you this year for GOOD coyotes, the same as they are on our side. In general, it costs somewhere between $75-100 to get a hide tanned. So if your taxidermist gives you full market price for them, you'd be looking somewhere in that 6-8 hides ballpark to make up his time and cost, at least.

Now, does your taxidermist NEED 6-8 coyotes, or even have use for them? Probably not. And if you ONLY SHOOT 6-8, then you most likely don't have 6-8 coyotes that your taxidermist would want to buy, since they'd be looking for the best of the best. I can't say that any of the taxidermists that I use would need so many. Unless they regularly buy green pelts and regularly sell finished hides, then you're probably handing them a lot of work and a lot of hustling.

Keep in mind, that a great number of taxidermists don't tan their own hides, so they send that out. One of the guys I've had do coyotes for me in the past charged $75 and he said he had $50 each at the tannery to have them done, so the only money he made was for the fleshing and stretching. So if you're passing 6-8 coyotes to your taxidermist, you're really passing him a bill for $300-400. If I'm a taxidermist (and I've tanned enough coyotes into saleable wall-hangers to qualify on this front), then I'm not interested in that trade. Maybe you'll get lucky though.

I'd say that your best move is to find a trapper or better still, a fur-buyer, sell what you shoot, but keep the best of the best, then use the buyer payout to pay your taxidermist.

And of course, the reality of knocking down 6-8 coyotes on your first outing in one weekend is highly unlikely. You'll have more cost in gas driving back and forth and in putting up the first few hides while you're trying to fill your limit than you'd spend in paying the taxidermist to do that one hide for you.

Nomercey's post is probably the best advice wou will get on your OP.

Thank you!!!

keep your best hide, sell the rest, google moyles for a place to tan yours using the money from the hides you sell, learn to put hides up and you'll pay for the tanning with fewer hides sold. contact a trapper to show you how to put them up, or sell them green to that trapper, he would probably be more fair than a buyer.
RR

Now that right there is funny! :sign0004: The coyote is perhaps the most adaptive animal in the Country. There will be one around to whiz on the last white man's grave. You won't "Take Care of IT" in a lifetime. Have fun trying, but you will win some kind of award if you succeed.

Southeast Missouri here......I Hunt Coyotes pretty well year round and only stop when Your not allowed to hunt them in April and a few weeks into May during Spring Turkey Season and when the Females are having their Pups!

The best time to Hunt Coyotes for their Fur is late Nov,Dec,Jan and Feb and possibly March if cold weather holds out?I usually give my Coyotes to the local Trappers,several have offered to skin a nice one out and have it Tanned for me to hang on the wall and I plan on having a few shoulder mounted when I get an exceptional one that's a neat Color Phase!

It can get expensive having a Full Mount done but would be nice to have 1 to add to my Deer/Buck Mounts,a Bobcat mount would be even nicer since they are so nice looking and elusive!

I have to ask. Why would your state have a closed period of time what you cannot kill coyotes? Why would they want them to reproduce?

Buy a book a learn to do it yourself. Its not hard just a bunch of handwork.

The way that we do do it is a chemical tan with alum.
a pint of alum in a bucket of water deepnenough to cover the hide.
1. Flesh hide
2 soak in alum and water for 3 days
3 take out of bucket and let dry
4 work hide until soft across a piece of metal. I use an old garden hoe with the edges rounded off.
5. Sand the leather until white
6. Rub down inside with a leather conditioner and turn inside out or lay flat however you skinned it

I dont do coyotes because I hate fleas and ticks but I have done a bunch of deer.