The best thing you can do to a No Value pelt!
No value pelts have absolutely no commercial value, occasionally they get shoved down somebody’ throat or up somebody’s rear, and you gain a couple dollars, but the most humane thing you can do with a pelt that has ZERO value, is burn it!
This is not to say that all lice or mange coyotes need to be thrown away, but the absolute worst do. The coyote depicted in the fire was a very heavily matted lice coyote, the whole pelt covered in fur that was completely matted with about a 1/2” thick of fur matts under the fur... worthless.
Pelts that are 100% shed of guard hair or over 75% affected by lice, or completely rubbed... throw the away.
Lots of the lice coyotes however do have a value, of which a percentage even have a significant percentage of high quality fur cover unaffected by the lice, they were very nice quality coyotes and now have a portion of the fur wrecked
Damage 1 - 25% affected, 75% still useable
Damage 2 - up to 50% affected 50% still useable
Damage 3 - up to 75% affected, 25% still useable
IV- beyond 75% affected/ruined - No commercial value
The drawback of skinning lice coyotes is that they smell repulsive, your fur buyer may be affected negatively by the sickly stench. In this event, it may be more profitable to have burned the lice,and fur buyer stays in a good mood
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