Author Topic: Certain Animals Priming Up Before Others? (Read 430 times)

KYtrapper17 · « **on:** October 22, 2003, 04:03:53 PM »

Do certain animals prime up before others? I know the amount of daylight is the prime factor in fur primeness, but it looks like the cold would have a little to do with it.

The way I see it, if coldness has anything to do with it, it looks like water dwelling animals would prime up quicker since the water is colder than the air, or it atleast feels colder. What I am getting at is it looks like a muskrat or a coon that is around water alot woul prime up before a coyote or a coon that doesn't live real close to water.

This might just sound like a load of bull, but I was just wondering. :roll:

Bogmaster · « **Reply #1 on:** October 22, 2003, 04:26:31 PM »

Canines prime up first,coon and mink next---rats and beaver are last but they are also good longer. Tom

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #2 on:** October 22, 2003, 06:37:56 PM »

Think about the light and cold from this vantage; the in the fall the amount of light hitting the northern hemishpere lessens which in turn causes cooler temps. Cooler climes are cooler because less light and light at lower angles hit these areas closer to the poles.

jim-NE · « **Reply #3 on:** October 22, 2003, 07:18:23 PM »

has a lot to do with environment and how nature treats the animal to be comfortable in its environment. takes much longer for water temperatures to consistently go below freezing point at the surface, whereas land animals such as canines, coons, etc. are alwasy exposed to the air temperatures.
beaver & rats swim in water that is never really all the way below freezing (only at surface) and dens are in ground or surrounded by a ton of vegetation, mud, and debris...or in other words very well insulated. beaver and rats prime up much later as a result. still has a lot to do with light duration vs. nighttime, but these animals are more directly impacted by their immediate environmental average temperatures.

oso lento · « **Reply #4 on:** October 23, 2003, 02:30:12 AM »

bogmaster, you have thrown me for a loop. I thought that coon prime before canines. looking in the last trapper & predator caller artical by Gappa there is a graph from the minnesota dept. of natural resources that show that coon prime first. am i wrong?

trappnman · « **Reply #5 on:** October 24, 2003, 02:09:04 AM »

Coon and coyote prime up first, with fox shortly after. For all practical purposes, coon and coyote start having value at the same time. Coyotes seem to FUR UP a little before coon around me, but coon PRIME UP a little sooner.

Right now- both look very good.

Bogmaster · « **Reply #6 on:** October 24, 2003, 05:32:25 AM »

Oso, a female coon that has raised young is last to prime.All her energy has gone into production of young.
Lazy old males of most furbeares prime up first--they have nothing to do but loaf and eat all summer. No wonder I aint prime yet--to much work.
Tom

Wackyquacker · « **Reply #7 on:** October 24, 2003, 10:23:24 AM »

Boggy, thanks for clarifying that. Now we understand why EVERYBODY says RdFx is way past his prime :-D