What's up with this coon?

I put this coon up a few days ago and it has been in my unheated shed. It was caught in a MB550 on dry land and dispatched with a 160. Why do you think the leather is so red? Of all my coon this year, this is the only one like this and I don't remember ever having one like this before. Any ideas?

Maybe he got hit by car at some point in life?

I just did one that looks like that over the shoulder area. Fur looks fine.

I have a few similar each year, and not always in the same area. Some trauma of some type but what? There are a whole host of options. Hind foot or front foot catch?

Bryce

I was once told that these con with reddish or purple color had distemper, don't know if it is fact never bother trying to check it out. Anyone else heard this?

Sometimes those females can have different colored leather. Maybe it had a tough time raising it's litter?

Livor mortis.

I have a boar like that. Weird thing is that his front legs were red up up mid point above the wrist, visible from the outside. Looked like he was sunburned and rubbed! Both sides, and with a perfect line.

Then the hide looks like this one= dried with a red color at the butt end....

Boco , mine was live when I saw the condition. And in a cage trap so no trauma. Liver mortis is a post mortem condition and I don’t think,mine was in the same position long enough for pooling.

Stress usually have this when conniver coon don't die immediately. Same thing happens to beef and pigs when stressed at death.

More trauma in a cage than you think. Hair was rubbed of reaching through the wire

Won't hurt it a bit. When trapping with body grips, you see that alot. I think it has something to do with the blood pooling in the skin when caught in a body grip. Only explaination I can come up with, but is very normal. See it alot.

Thanks everyone. It was caught in a foothold, just dispatched with a body grip. Death was quick so I don't know how much stress it would have experienced (more stress of being in the foothold). I skinned it the day it was caught but fleshed it two days later, maybe that could cause it? Anyway, I was just curious. Thanks again.

By the way, Lee Steinmeyer- love your fleshing knife! That thing does wonders!

Agree 100%. I have a lot of Coons that look like that in my 160 cubbys. Usually seems like its mostly on the larger ones but not always. Never been docked for it.

Lots of mine look like that.