do the belly ever get good fur on some, I got my first of the spring. Today and the belly was weak, normally these first ones out of dens are nice, had some in the fall that were weak bellies!

It really seems to be a flip of the coin on skunk bellies. Not sure why some are nice and others are weak. Ma Nature?

do you guys' skin both?

Case it then don’t worry about it. The pouch area is often weak.

I skin them all

I caught a big male a couple weeks ago that was 80%bald just on the belly...I assumed something was wrong with it......how is that compared to weak

Trim out the some of the mostly bald area
for the white stripe inspection window.

Many of these skunk are probably going
to end up as Mountain man/Davy Crockett
type hats where the most important part is
the white striped back so the black belly is
not nearly so important.

w

Skunks get skin issues like people I always thought of it as some form of psoriasis maybe not common but that uncommon.

Here’s another one that was messed up.

This guy was fat and sassy probably due to the easy winter we've had so far. Belly doesn't look too bad either.

scout that looks great

wow...nasty

This mornings catch, front and back.

Nice, well striped back on that one.

That's the color scheme & pattern
the hat makers are looking for.

I'd skin it for sure and fashion a
generous inspection window
on the belly side

walleyed