Imagine showing up for your first day on the job and you’re the skinner. Sonofa!!!

WOW! The people in this country should really be thankful for the coyote hunter and trappers. Of course when washington DC geats done building the wall around the capital building I would to be able to turn that number of yotes loose inside their wall.

Garry-

Surprised to see how many they skinned and stretched open. Huh.

That is a LOT of coyotes

Wonder what they pay for whole ones?
What they pay skinners?

Not a job I would want for sure

They flesh using a machine, not manually on a beam like we do. That is why they open skin or open up items bought green. They open raccoons to flesh them also. Very cost efficient process.

LOL

Juan will be on them soon.....

It appears the cash in hand carcass market is going strong.

Id rather be horse whipped than have to skin coyotes all day long, lol.

Exactly

Looks like a lot of green belly to me.

Does anyone know how many coyotes Groenwald's move in a year? In January we sold some fur to Weibkes and last year they handled a bit over 100,000 coyotes. The father who recently passed graded everyone of those.

Bryce

They skin using a powered hide puller. Basically a beefed up industrial version of the hide pullers a lot of trappers have. They show it being used on coons in one of their videos. If you have someone making opening cuts, someone starting the hide down off the legs and pulling the tail with a bench mount tail stripper, and a guy pulling the hide down with the machine a pile of coyotes or coons disappears fairly quickly.

X2 I mostly do per day and bounty work , but I have skinned a few coyotes RIGHT after I killed them. Cant amagine old dead recently frozen coyotes to skin by the hundreds . I would rather take my chances in Federal Prison than skin all them coyotes

Learn something new every day, thanks you guys. Obviously at least open coon and coyote skins are acceptable to market yet none of the auctions ever do it that I'm aware of. This might be a good one for Gibb.

Lots of work laying there, dang!

I think I see fleshing boards along the wall, so there must be some hand fleshing going on.

Anyone know the percentage of loss they factor in? By the time they get carcass coyotes back to the facility to process there has to be some that are bad by the time they get put up.

I was wondering this the other day as we have 3 different buyers that roll through town buying carcass coyotes. A lot of those coyotes aren't froze. They run the route all day long and and just pile them up in the trailer. Some days the temps outside are 50 F. By the time they get peeled in the next day or two I'm guessing some aren't no good.

X3,,I HATE skinning them stink dogs.