What do you use to bomb the fleas on coyotes?

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Killed a coyote today and then as usual I covered him in an insectcide powder made for killing lice on cattle. Put him in a plastic bag. 2 hours later when I get home and begin to skin him he still has fleas crawling around. It was -5 here today and I normally use a can of Raid along with the powder but the can was frozen. Any suggestions on what to use to insure a good kill on the fleas in sub zero weather?
 
Well I just let them crawl all over me, and let my buddies laugh at me trying to smash them as they make mad dashes from one side of my face to the other. Had it happen Saturday and they creep me out. I got home and used Yard Gaurd in a garbage bag and that worked.
 
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Well I just let them crawl all over me, and let my buddies laugh at me trying to smash them as they make mad dashes from one side of my face to the other. Had it happen Saturday and they creep me out. I got home and used Yard Gaurd in a garbage bag and that worked.



Wow that is a tuff way to get them off you! Did you put air holes in the bag? lol
 
+1 for sevin dust avaiable at any garden center.
Just put the kill with the dust in a trash bag and by the time you reach you next stand fleas will be muerto.
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I will give that a try Appreciate the suggestions. I bought a can of Sevin dust last night at a local hardward store. I plan to test it out this next weekend. Coyotes and fleas beware!!
 
Fleas can be really hard to get rid of, I haven't tried the Sevin dust, but you might need to use a product intended for fleas, they lay eggs that can hatch later, you need a product that carries on and kills the next generation as well, most products that aren't flea specific don't kill the eggs.
 
I have issues with placing my dead coyotes in a plastic bag. I DO NOT work up my furs, but rather I sell them in the round. Placing them in a plastic bag usually means they will be lying in a pool of blood inside that bag. Plus, most of the coyotes I shoot are half-ways frozen stiff by the time I get back home. If the bag is small, these coyote bodies might also be scrunched up and then they look smaller to the fur buyer. What I do is carry a can of Black Flag Flying Insect Killer and keep it up near the defrosters by my windshield. After I bring a coyote or two back to the pickup, I spray them especially well in the crotch and tail areas, under the arm pits, around the ears and head and belly. Then I stretch them between the sides of the pickup bed so they stay up out of any blood that might be dripping out of any wounds and so they are stretched out and look LOOOONG like you see in the photo below.

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When I get them home, I hang them up by their hind legs and give them another good spray down with the Black Flag.
 
I skin them, wash them to get blood out, flesh and stretch them. But I have had fleas crawling on my gloves and me as I drag or carry them out. So I have begun carrying a plastic bag and Raid with me. I bomb them with the Raid and put them in the bag with my sling over their legs and carry them out. It had been working well but the Raid keeps freezing up when its below zero. So I bought that dust they use for cattle and lice but its not been getting the job done. Last weekend after dusting the heck out of the coyote and placing him in a bag I was carrying him out about a mile when I notice the *&^%#@ fleas crawling up my jacket. The flea powder stuff I looked at said it took several hours to kill them all. I want total annilation as quick as possible. My wife gets really grumpy when she finds fleas in our bed!
 
maybe you can try keeping the raid cans in a cooler of some type even with a hand warmer in it if needed to keep it from freezing up. If kept in the house overnight it may stay warm in the cooler for a few good hours?
 


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