What's Causing This Coyote Fur Damage?

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I'm starting to see coyotes with a large patch of fur missing between their shoulder blades. Three of the last five had exactly the same thing. Overall, the fur is perfect in every way but the best hair in the middle of the back is gone and I suspect the hides are worthless. I'm leaving them in the bush. I don't recall ever seeing mange hit them in this manner before. I've heard suggestions like ringworm, mating/breeding damage and rub marks from feeding on cattle carcasses. Anyone else seeing this? Any opinions on what it is? Here's a pic.

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These two came out of the same pack and I know there's a dead cow within 1/2 mile. The other one I saw it on lived about six miles away from these guys.

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Very interesting. I don't think it would be rubbing yet. Furs up north stay good for a long time. Are you seeing this in coyotes all from the same location/spot? My guess would be something done over and over to cause fur damage. It doesn't look like mange.
 
Don't know about the missing fur, but I doubt they're worthless. May not bring top dollar but you might be surprised what you get for them.
 
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NMLeon may be able to help with this one. It looks like Male Pattern Baldness to me.




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The top one would be tough to sell, the other one still looks not bad. Maybe the bottom one you could comb it down to cover it?? Six miles isn't far to go to a dead cow, sometimes they say they will travel three times that far for a dead cow. Probably not from digging into the cow cavity? It is different than most rubbing from fences, dens and sage brush. Hmm, now I am really curious.T.20
 
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NMLeon may be able to help with this one. It looks like Male Pattern Baldness to me.



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They look like that in mid Feburary/early March here in the Northeast, but maybe with the unseasonably warm weather, it has "tricked" the coyotes metabolism.

Sure looks rubbed to me.
 
I shot a couple of yotes last year round my area that had that patch rubbed out. There was no sign of mange anywhere else. Have yet to shoot any this year with that affliction but my success ratio isn't as high as it was last year.

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An aggressive male yanking out the females hair? Its getting to be that time of year for maiting season , bow wow, wow, yippy yo, yippy yaaa, doggy style!!!
 


It was cause by ticks,then it tures in to what we call a hot spot around here. If it happens to your dogs you can pour motor oil on it two or three times. they will get so bad that their skin will brake open and lose their hair. And thats the same place it happens right in the middle of their shoulder blades. I don't know if I am right or not, but I have seen it on dogs before.
 
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Could it be from a barb wire fence or crossing through a hole in a fence?

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I was just thinking the same thing. Either a fence or low hanging brush getting into and out of a den. Or maybe crawling under something like an old building structure?
 
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It was cause by ticks,then it tures in to what we call a hot spot around here. If it happens to your dogs you can pour motor oil on it two or three times. they will get so bad that their skin will brake open and lose their hair. And thats the same place it happens right in the middle of their shoulder blades. I don't know if I am right or not, but I have seen it on dogs before.



It could be, but ticks usually manifest themselves in certain locations on animals. Generally, they are found dug in near the base of the ears, the base of the tail, and underneath the animal...usually armpits and inner thigh, crotch area. These are all areas that they tend to "hang" to and feed the most/longest.

As for the barbed wire fence theory: I'm not buying in to that one. This issue seems to be getting more common and rather wide spread. Mange has to start some place, although I'm not exactly sure if it follows a general pattern. It is not normal for that much hair to fall out in one area, without it being some type of affliction caused by parasites, mites, etc.

I'd say it's the begining cycle of sarcoptic mange. It seems that mange is cycling and plaguing many yotes in many states this year. There have been many more reports of mange in Pennsylvaina this year, then I can ever remember before.
I'm willing to bet that had those yotes lived on, they would have eventually gone bald from the shoulders back, and died of mange. Next time ya shoot one like that, request that state officials have it examined by an expert.
 
They like the center of the back, you can tell when you skin and stretch them there will be pea sized black spots on the skin side. The hair falls out on some or most of them. I noticed I found one not fully blown on my dogs chest, she lost a spot of hair smaller than a dime there.T.20
 


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