Coyote skinning

[Nakohe]

I always tube skin, I also use two pieces of 1/4" pipe to pull the tail bone out. Just make sure the yote is hung up good cause it does take a little doing. And yes they STINK

[Andrew Wesley]

ah, they aren't that bad, beaver is WAY worse!!! LOL

[pintail_drake2004]

i agree with the beaver. i have been trapping for almost 2 decades now and have NOT caught one yet that has not had a ton of fleas. just bag and raid them and thats all it takes. wont damage the fur-smell kinda funny but yotes stink to start with.

just an FYI-if ya have the space hang you critter (what ever they may be) upside down by their back legs. Leaving them on the concrete floor lets blood pool to the lower sections (typically stomach and groin area) an the hide turns green. Green=rot, if slightly green no worries, dark green means ya will have some fur slip when ya tan. JMHO but i have been doing this for many years, and learned from my father who was a fur farmer for many decades before.

[b.glass]

Well, we got him skinned. It took us about 3 hours. She is fleshing him now.

I don't have a stretcher but will try to use the 2x4s if someone can explain to me how.

We kept the feet intact but still need to remove the bones from the toes. I messed up one of the ears but my niece accidently got the other one really well.

She thinks she wants to make a quiver. It is a dark and pretty yote. She also wants to make a european mount out of the skull.
Bona

[b.glass]

Clay,

So if we don't stretch and dry the hide, do we go straight to the tanning process?

Bona

[razorsharptokill]

I've heard of people using compressed air shot under the hide from an incision on the legs to separate the hide. Is this BS?

[pintail_drake2004]

it does not work as good as people think. i have literally made a beaver look like a balloon before trying that.

you can take the hide directly to tan after you flesh it. reason you would stretch and dry is to keep for later. i prefer wood stretcher for all my fur except yotes but wire works better for me because its quicker. a #5 fur stretcher for small yotes, or a #6 for large yotes.
wood stretcher go as follows:
Large wood yote boards
4" @ 3"
5 1/8" @ 5
6"@ 7.5
6 3/4 @ 12
7 1/4 @ 17"
9 @ 39"
9 @ 72"

Small yote boards
3.5 @ 3
4.5 @ 5
5.5 @ 7.5
6 1/4 @ 12
6 5/8 @ 17
7.5 @ 39
7.5 @ 72

[Gordon martiniuk]

Make a streacher use(2) 1"x 4" taper end that slides into coyote head and attach 2 streacher boards together with a lath   then insert into coyote head then take another lath and spread ends apart to streach hide I like to tack the back legs down to the streacher ,, let dry a day or 2 then turn fur side out and dry for a couple of days more it Just that easy!