Will Animals Be Good?

First off you need to tell us, whole, skinned, skinned salted, frozen, fresh etc.
This way we can assist you better but if their frozen you’ll be fine but get to work on them ASAP

 

See how they smell and get them skinned asap and into a pickle. Stop rot be your good friend as well.

 

They’ll probably be thawed and hopefully the person sending them to you took good care of the specimens prior to freezing.
As said skin ASAP making sure and hopefully nothing turned green and everything is intact. Skin, flesh, salt dry and go from there or you can use a saltbrine also if your going from raw to a pickle.

 

The mink, raccoon and possum will be the most likely to be ok. It's gonna be real iffy on the coyote and fox. Shipping facilities are not heated, and there is a chance they will be OK....refrigerate or place in a cool environment immediately. Be ready to skin like a mad hatter when they arrive...skinning order...coyote, fox, possum, raccoon, and mink.

 

I just looked at five suppliers that sell Stop-Rot. Surely one of those has it available. Scroll down at the bottom of this page and click on suppliers.

 

If they were packaged and insulated carefully, they will probably be OK. The coyote and the fox may have a little green in the belly area but that doesn’t mean they’re ruined - yet. It just means you need to hurry. Use the order Joey gave you. If you don’t have StopRot spray some Denatured Alcohol on those areas and on the ears (the first place some predators start to slip). When you get to the mink, REMEMBER, they are in the same family as skunks and they have a gland with musk scent stronger IMO than skunks. DO NOT cut that gland!!! Been there and done that and I dearly wish someone had warned me before I started skinning that rascal.

 

On their butt under their tail. Be careful not to squeeze them when you strip the tail out either. Did that once and nobody wanted to come in my shop and hang out anymore.

 

Musk glands on many animals are on each side of the colon, distal to the anus. Plug the anus with cotton before you start, and cut a circle in the skin around the anus. It's no fun to get that aroma on you...coyotes, foxes, dogs, skunks, mink, otter, and all snakes have them.