My sheep's wool smells like Ammonia is it still okay to use?

Just ammonia wouldn’t bother me much. If you have a cheap source, grab new wool…. I quit using it altogether years ago. I saw no decrease in catches to note…..

Belly or butt wool, don't hurt a thing. If you don't have confidence in it get new.

Nessmuck

that says everything

The sheeps with the chickens and the cows in the corn.......

I use sheep's wool In my dirt holes and It works just like a lure. I also use It as a lure holder at some sets.

I get mine when my neighbor Poncho has a sheep die. Better quality then the stuff I’ve bought

The neighbor has some sheep and when he shears I get my wool allotment. It really stinks like sheep.

When my bag came in it did have the heavy sheep odor. I took some out the original bag and put it in a smaller zip lok to carry with me. When I went back to get some more to refill my small bag that is when I noticed it had a strong ammonia smell.

I've had better luck with underfur combings (of various creatures), but we don't have that many sheep around here.

Funny story. I trapped a place back in the late 90s where I used sheep’s wool at all my dirt holes for several years. There was a year, in particular, that I had catches drop way off. My partner at the time would keep catching but my numbers were garbage. I stopped using wool and immediately started catching again.

The theory of coyotes knowing a particular trapper as a danger smell is certainly worth evaluating but I believe the coyotes learned to recognize “me” as the sheep smell.

Could be true…could be superstition. But I’m convinced they were cautious of the wool smell. Like using the same lure at every set year after year.

I still use wool but not at all dirt hole sets.

Got plenty of sheep wool…..my son just finished showing his Oxfords at the Deerfield Fair this past week.

Nessie, them things kook like they live in Beverly Hills! Fancy sheep!

Got away from sheeps wool a few years ago for the most part. Still use some at flat sets. I take a deer hide skin side out unfleshed and nail it to a tree to dry some. Then I cut different size chunks off to hold bait in dirt holes. Works pretty good. Also use deer ears. Works is awesome in big holes. Bait in the ear and put in the hole ear butt down. Hard to hook a toe in it and pull it out. Yearlings work the best.

I've been using deer hair over the bait in dirt holes for years. Nothing more natural than a chunk of deer liver, lung or meat scraps down a hole then plugged with deer hair. Starting in Oct. coyotes start feasting on gut piles and lost deer. This may not be legal everywhere but is in my state.

I'll have to give that deer ear a try. Sound like a great idea.

Trouble I have had with wool is the rodents pack it off before the coyotes get there. Many time cut up and chewed and scattered all about. Quit using it long.ago. One thing I did try with some results but a pain to do was to put it in a hole and burn it with a propane torch.. that smell is loud and works it's way into the dirt permanently.