Re: Color Phase Coons?
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The number of coon that den in trees is a small percentage compared to bluff dens, ground dens, barns, round bale stacks, silage bags, old vehicles, etc.
Most hollowed out sections of a den tree contain rotted wood, and depleted tannic acid. Tannic acids are also much more prevelant in hard woods such as oaks. Primary tree species that hollow out and make good den trees around here are cotton wood, and soft maple, both of which have low levels of tannic acid.
If tannic acid were a major factor there would be no grey squirrels, they would all be orange/yellow.
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Re: Color Phase Coons?
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Around 80% of the total coon production is either Off or Badly Off color.So don't feel bad.
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Re: Color Phase Coons?
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There are differing colors of coons in my area within a radius of 20 miles or so. Yellow or reddish colors I agree are probably base line genetic driven but hormonal changes during rut etc. can cause color changes and especially in adult or breeding age males. I don't find near the redness in even later caught YOY males as I do with older males. Males can be come stained due to urine but it is the smell that is a bigger indicator of some winter den activity. Also I feel that if coons feed a lot on corn to store fat that that yellow carotene color comes through during their den times. As they start to mobilize fat to give them calories they can take on some color changes as well.Also with fur being 99% protein and protein intake drops to almost nothing the fur can start to deteriorate in many ways, color being one of them.
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Re: Color Phase Coons?
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Page 740.You can find the odd one for sale on line once in a while.Check amazon.
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Re: Color Phase Coons?
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Typically, my better 1-2 color coon are sows. Boars around here usually have an off-color on the back of the neck area, some a lot, some not too much in off-ness. I sent a 5x first half of Dec boar that had a red tint to auction. We'll see if anyone is interested at the end of this month. I don't seem to notice a color change from Nov through now. Very little coon movement here the last 10 days, even for the Romeos...
"And God said, Let us make man in our image �and let them have dominion �and all the creatures that move along the ground". Genesis 1:26
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