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just thought i`d start a thread to see some of the different colors guys have taken. here`s a few pics of some around my area in ny. the black one i took in front of my redbones. photos are not in order.

Very cool. I have seen some odd lookin ones throughout the years. Two of the best colored ones though I did not catch. Make that three now that I think of it.

Dont your neighbors get upset at you when you shoot their house dogs? JK Awsome pictures. I never knew they came in different colors. Thats really something thanks for posting.

badass! that first one sure is cool lookin!
i've never one a different color other than the average ugly brown lol why do they color phase like that is it the climate or just a genetic thing?

I believe alot of it has to do with them having wolf dna. There are many different wolf color phases. They are like a dog. Many diff. colors.
Are there many different color phases in other parts of the country?

Having wolf DNA would make sense as to the different colors. KC whats the mount you have crawling down a log in the back ground?

Do you guys think its Wolf? or dog. KC i know your hunting in country thats puts out big coyotes every year 40 plus and some 50s I myself being that part of the country think its dog blood. There was a study done recently that I read that they did allot of DNA testing on coyotes across the country but I cant recall what it said enough to post it here. Nice coyote mounts you got there btw-

The one that they just did in fact show wolf dna in the eastern coyote.

bear hunter, that`s a black squirrel. it`s just another color phase of a gray squirrel. here`s a article about coyote-wolf dna.

http://standardspeaker.com/news/eastern ... r-1.463287

Yes your right. That article was similar an or shorten version of the study that was done. Thanks

The color phases are always interesting. More so when wolves, and dogs are breeding with them!!

That one with the white V I would say found some husky or malimute in the woodpile. The one on the tailgate sure does show some wolf to it!!

I trapped 2 coywolf pups this fall. They sure where some interesting critters.

We have pretty much all straight up coyotes here. There is a little variation in the color, but nothing like these pictures shows. Around here it's pretty much just a variation in the shade of gray.

Who ever your taxidermist is he is good. Those are NICE mounts. Realy look life like in the pictures.

When I was a kid me and my dad ran a bitch coyote in a hole in the month of January. We got her out, took her home and put her in a pen. The hounds didn't pay her any attention around there. Then along about the middle of Feb. one of our running Walker males started hanging around the pen she was in. A few days later she was backing up to the fence so we put the Walker in with her and they was hung up later that day. She had 6 long haired tricolored puppies. We kept a couple of them and gave the rest away. They acted like full blood coyotes do that you raise. Never did really gentle down good. Could not keep them out of the chickens so they didn't last long around mama. She shot them both.