I'm literally dragging a coyote back to my truck as I'm writing this. Obviously I need to skin it next. How long aftet i skin it do i need to do something with it? Can i throw it in the freezer and deal with it at a later time? I'd like to tan the pelt and hang it on my wall to commemorate my first yote kill, as well as bleach the skull to put next to my first hog kill.

Fire up the grill...

use it as bait and shoot a other one

Salt it and then roll it up and freeze it till you can decide.

Jerky?

Well, right or wrong I ended up skinning it, folded the pelt in half, placed into a garbage bag and into the freezer until I figure out what to do with it next. It was a complete shit show I might add. Never skinned an animal before, I'm in my backyard with a hoist hanging from a tree branch, a box of cardboard next to me smoldering to try to keep all the Hornets that were attracted to the action at bay. Then I ninja'd the head off with a machete. Wonder what the neighbors think of me.

You are not alone in being that guy.  

I have a skinning tree attached to a pulley in my garage.

Before I went back to school, we killed so much I was tired of skinning/cleaning in the dark, rain, wind, cold, sun, heat, etc.  Just hose off the blood on the concrete and let it run down the driveway.  I even bought extra trash cans big enough to hold carcasses to set out by the curb on trash day, in the Texas heat.  

I trim the ribs out of pigs with the same chain saw I trim the hedges with.  The first time I fired that up after dark to get the ribs, the people walking their dog after sunset were at the end of the driveway like

Get the GF to chew tan it?

I take them to a local fur buyer and let them deal with them.