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Originally Posted by Marty S
I have attended 4 or 5 May sales, and each time spent a great deal of time looking thru the samples to see where many types of coyotes are placed in the grades, particularly the damage grades.
According to what I saw on the last trip, the Damaged 1,2,3 grades were comprised of screwed up coyotes mainly from lice/mite damage, burr damage, rubs and other such screwed up coyotes. The sew jobs were just about all in the Slight Damage grades. A lot of coyotes that end up in the damage grades have these types of damage and often it takes a trained eye to see it and is a whole other thing to understand it.
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Thanks, Marty, that was my understanding as well. Did you notice if pelts with red belly (with or without hair loss) got down graded because of it?
I don't remember sending in anything with issues with the fur on the back but maybe I sent a few red bellies in.