Another throwaway

[blackhammer]

Another throwaway today. Seems like at least in the winter they run 50 percent bad. I'll set no more snares probably check the few I have out for awhile for fun. But I don't like wasting animals even coyotes. I'm not sure are these bad rubs usually mange?

[thorsmightyhammer]

Where are they rubbed Paul?
My buddy sold his shot votes from the past couple three weeks

45 bucks

[trappnman]

I doubt it its mange- just nature.

steven- if they are rubbed on the shoulders, or back- they are $5-10 coyotes

shot really doesn't matter much unless extreme

[blackhammer]

Shoulders, upper back. Nicely furred elsewhere. I can't catch a break with coyotes. Had two the other day and one had mange for sure and the other actually was a 20 dollar carcuss coyote although he was burdocked pretty good.I'm waitimg for that beautiful Alberta coyote I don't think twice about skinning. lol

[thorsmightyhammer]

We don't see much of the rubbed on the backs or shoulders like that.

At least not the front shoulders.

Back haunches are getting weak.

[trappnman]

that's very interesting steven-

I wonder why that is- seems like even in badly rubbed on shoulders here, haunches are still decent

[northof50]

Tman are your yotes going into dens now? Digging them out etc for back and side rubs?

What I'm seeing is flank breakdown in the dogs coming in now. Guard hairs missing in fist size before rear legs

[trappnman]

now that I don't know-

would they start this far in front of the breeding season, which is the later part of Feb here?

[trappincoyotes39]

Too early for coyotes most coyotes to be cleaning out den holes or in a den rearing pups.

[northof50]

up north they start digging out the snow covering dens, even through 5 feet drifts 15 Jan timeframe
that would explain wear on the shoulder area.
Leads to another question? 1 Dec had a coyote from western Manitoba that had 8 Ixodes ticks( deer Ticks) and one male Am dog tick male feed and mostly engorged. The ticks were in the ruff of the neck, the thickest hair area. So if these dogs are going back into under ground burrows then the ticks are falling off and can continue their life cycle. ( We can not understand why the rapid expansion of these ticks into Manitoba)These ticks were frozen in a deep freeze for 6 weeks and a week of -40c and were still alive. Interesting in that in past I always look at the ears for attachment sites, and not the heavy haired regiions.

Years back when they drummed the coyotes and foxes in Winnipeg.... the ticks would fall off when they were put in the shaker drum after the corn grit application. The ground under the screen shaker would be peppered with black pop-corn. Some were still alive!!! With 25 animals it was too difficult to know where what came from.

[northof50]

attached tick on winter coyote

[northof50]

This is skin side of where an Ixodes tick was attached finger is raising up the area around the tick. These ticks are being tested for the bacterium ie Lymes and several other nasties
The red dots are infected areas around the bite, Ixodes tick with their mouth pieces cut through the skin and are cememnted down before feeding that is why you can see the opening in the skin

[RdFx]

Nasty buggers and survival rate is amazing....just like the yotes!