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Post by Sunshine on Dec 28, 2006 17:06:23 GMT -5
what factors cause fur to prime?
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Post by ohtrap on Dec 28, 2006 17:28:42 GMT -5
I'm no where near any kind of an expert but to me it seems that its a combination of shorter daylight hours and colder tempatures. Now this is coming from someone who is from Ohio and it's just from my own perspective but i figure it has to be mostly the same about anywhere.
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Post by hawkeye on Dec 28, 2006 18:17:19 GMT -5
Now that sounds like a question Buzzard would ask when he already knows more about the subject than the people he is asking do. Can't fool me Sunshine, you know more about it than I do. But I'll take a stab at it. I read some thing a long time ago, I believe it was in Fur Fish & Game, that diet has a lot to do with it. So with that knowledge I obtained permission to trap a spring that ran through a ranch I had worked on and emptied into a mill pond. Nobody trapped it, beacause it was fed from a natural hot spring and the creek nor the mill pond ever froze. Not one rat I trapped there was prime. Now the days were just as short on that creek as they were anywhere else, and the rats were eating the same thing as rat were eating anywhere else. That's why I believe temperature is the biggest factor. I don't know it for a fact, so it's open to debate.
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Post by cajunbill2 on Dec 28, 2006 18:24:09 GMT -5
it is shorter days and the tempeture both.with colder weather the fur gets thicker with shorter days the tem drops.both play a role in the fur.
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Post by ohtrap on Dec 28, 2006 18:32:01 GMT -5
hawkeye, thats a factor that I have never experanced or thought of. thanks for bring that up.
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Post by wolfskinner on Dec 28, 2006 19:49:20 GMT -5
I think it has more to do with exactly who catches it. My partner's furs were always full prime, and mine weren't.
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Post by hawkeye on Dec 28, 2006 21:10:03 GMT -5
I think it has more to do with exactly who catches it. My partner's furs were always full prime, and mine weren't. I never have figured out how that works, but it has always amazed me. I did solve that problem though. Can't tell you how, there's no statute of limitations on that sort of "solution".
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Post by Earl8656 on Dec 28, 2006 21:23:21 GMT -5
This is a really good question. ...... But,IMHO I think all of the above factors play a role. If temps weren't an issue why does the fur get thicker quicker in Montana than it does in South Carolina. Why is it that female coons that were just caught last week are black as tar? Biologists say it is because of the decreasing daylight. But as I ponder; the definitive answer came to me........ Because it's God's way!!!! The End.
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Post by cajunbill2 on Dec 29, 2006 7:53:14 GMT -5
great post and yes its gods way
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