How much do you guys think they will be going for? I know it's about the experience and tradition, but I am just curious because I will definetley be taking my coyotes to a fur buyer.

somewhere between $0.50 and ~$75.00.

The best answer is "it depends" on grade, size, time of year caught, coloring. Too many variables to answer with accuracy. Our IN coyotes are all over the price range.

I believe my average was about $15 last year, some sold for a lot more, some for a lot less. All an NAFA

just checked, that was 2 auctions ago. Last auction I averaged $2.88/coyote. All 3XL pelts graded well.

You have to be in this for the fun, not the money!! There is no money in catching fur!!

not yotes anyway

many buyers wont even take a yote

Chevy and TD are right. The coyote market will likely be the best out there this year. But it is going to be the best of the best that sells. You will have local guys not even buying them, to $50.00+. The main two factors are COLOR, and how prime they are. In other words, what time of year it was caught. Late season won't necessarily mean its good either. Guard hairs missing and rubs will be a severe dock, on even the most prime of hides. Here are a couple examples.

This small female was caught at the end of January, or early Feb. even though she was small, her fur was VERY light colored. It was lighter than this picture shows after I washed all the dirt, and staining off. She sold for $94.00 at NAFA. I know it was her, because I sold her separately.


This dark/red colored coyote I couldn't give away, and is likely one of the 3 or 4 still at NAFA that didn't sell.


Any darker, red, or "off color coyotes are not going to be very marketable, if at all. BUT!!! Just keep catching them!!!

Yaz, hard to believe the bottom one didn't sell...

I actually like the bottom one better as I think it has more character...

But, I don't dabble in trapping and selling so I don't know what is and what isn't marketable...

If you had to say when the optimum time to trap them, when would that be?

I used to love to trap so I bought some equipment but those prices are a bummer. Except the $94

I hate to kill something without using it as much as possible but I am not going through the trouble of skinning, stretching and drying a fur just for the fun of it. How about I catch/shoot them and then give them to you?

After xmas