Unusual spots on it I think I know what it is .

You are thinking shotgun?

black death plage???????

No shotgun caught in foothold.

Tick bites

Lice maybe

My old furbuyer told be tularemia would cause spots on the hide. I don't know if they would look like this or not.

C.D.C. says wasn't vaccinated for measles.

I don't know. Never saw one like that before.

sure hope you are not expecting to eat any of the beaver meat
if you do!
can you make your will out beforehand

I caught 2 out of the same slough 4 or 5 years ago, that were just like that. I put the pics on here and asked what it was and we never did get a definite answer. I asked the furbuyers at the sale and they had not seen it either.

Rickey

Thought bird shot but they are all over........ What ever it is, they bleed pretty good at each site.

Not birdshot

Old buckshot wounds?

But that would have killed it ,and you would have found some copper or lead

Looks like some kind of skin fungus.

Ive never seen a tick on a beaver or otter.