Mange, poor critter

Knew it before I pulled the trigger. About 3 in 10 have it.

Now that's ugly. You did him a favor.

Mange/lice is a terrible way to live.

That there is enough to gag a maggot!

I have it bad here. Have caught 28 and only skinned 10. They are really bad, doing them a favor.

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People that think huning is cruel have no clue about Mother Nature

Those types of pics need to be posted on social media sites let the antis know what cruel really is.

same thing here , more with mange than with out ,

This one I caught yesterday.

Yep

That sucks Adam but don't start an ugly coyote contest with LDW

Got a bad one here a couple weeks back...

Those pics make me itchy.

No doubt I think Ima take another shower now

We had it bad in Wyoming about 10 years ago mostly gone now.

Probably nobody has tried, but can a guy take the skull without getting the wee nasties getting all over them...

To me it's not worth the risk , I don't like removing the snare loop from around their neck when I catch one like these pictured or worse looking . And they don't get a ride in the pickup ever !

Yes I have a friend who got sarcoptic mange from a coyote he skinned and fleshed it a long recovery before he got rid of it .
Allan

Couple more nice ones

Imagine the uproar of this affected deer, elk, or something similar..... I've never seen anything mentioned by my state game and fish department.

It's one symptom of over population. ARs still are stupid enough to think Mother Nature's way of dealing with this is more justified than killing them humanely.

This coyote was living in a stackyard and eating corn silage to stay alive. one night in the trap, unable to crawl back in the hay, and it died of exposure. mange mites are a nasty creature and cause a miserable death that takes months. disney movie fans dont have a clue what the natural world is really like

I had a buddy I trapped with for a few years in Kansas that always did that because he had a good market for both the skulls and the claws. Every couple of months he would get a little spot of mange on his arm and he would just shrug his shoulders and wipe some motor oil on it like it was no big thing

I have had mange on my arms. 2-3 days and its gone. Kinda like chiggers but not near as bad. Those mites are coyote specific. I guess I should say canine. Dont let your dog get around a still warm mangy one.

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This. Sarcoptic mange mite can't survive or reproduce on a human because it's species specific. It will make you itch a few days, like Danny said, until they die. Usually die in a 2 to 3 day time period. I've drug off quite a few mangy coyotes (always with gloves on) and have never have gotten it.

Correct. All sarcoptic mange mites are adapted to infect specific hosts, though they have been known to infect other species at least temporarily. There is a specific human-adapted variety of S. scabiei that causes scabies (mange) in people.

Notoedric mange mites are not specie specific as far as I know but do not infect humans.

Most mammals, including humans, have Demodex mites and they are specie specific.

I have skinned many mangy red fox. It usually starts in the back of the rear legs and tails around here. If it has not advanced further than that I put them up.

They aren't getting better.

Yes, I hear bugs die about a day after body cool? My Dr prescribed ivermectin for covid prevention, and I have horse paste too, that stuff kills mange
For me one out of seven or eight had it

Ivermec is good stuff but I have probably rubbed motor oil on 100 head of horses where they get to rubbing late in the winter. It will kill about any type of mite or skin parasite.


Wherever some ol boy has telephone poles stocked for his next fencing project I notice the hogs will rub on the creosoted end until it is polished up like glass. I assume it gives them some relief

used to sell to a pen for training dogs they always sprayed them with wd40 talk about making a pretty coy after a few weeks i sold to them several years figured about 50 percent would have hair loss talked to a guy 2 years ago thru 24 of 25 away

Used to brush , used motor oil on my sows and boar . in the winter time . When they were itching. old243

A "favor" would have been to pen it up and give it a shot of Iverctin, (which would have cured it )

Killing it, is actually more like : putting it out of it's misery !

That's what you really did !

J S

A Fox I shot a few yrs ago.