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Post by Sunshine on Sept 8, 2010 14:57:30 GMT -5
since the current fur market isnt so great have any of you thought or decided to sell your fur either in the round or green skinned this year when you havent in the past?
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Post by backwoodsman on Sept 8, 2010 22:41:14 GMT -5
We're putting up fox, mink and rats like last year. If theres a market change then we'll decide then how for sure we're doing it. Difference last year between our green skin coons and the ones some put up wasnt worth the time and trouble to us when rats were running $7.
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 17, 2010 19:27:13 GMT -5
what were the country buyers paying for green fur last year in your area?
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 17, 2010 22:08:38 GMT -5
I aint puttin up anything but the few fox i may catch. Skin freeze and take em to the buyer. Besides the very few I may decide to tan myself.
This is bad I know, but what is the outlook for prices this year? I haven't paid it a bit of attention at all.
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 20, 2010 22:40:03 GMT -5
Huck, do you put up your fur most years or do you do more trapping in the ADC arena than in the recreational fur trappin arena?
i know you dont fool with puttin up yotes,regardless of their value,right?
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 20, 2010 22:59:09 GMT -5
I have fur trapped since I was 8 years old. Always put my fur up. it aint gonna seem right not to this year....but I aint got the time.
I have put yotes up....but won't ever again. They will rot in a ditch before I skin one of the stinkin things.
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 20, 2010 23:12:10 GMT -5
even if they were averagin 50 bucks? ;D
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 20, 2010 23:17:33 GMT -5
HAHA..thaqt aint gonna happen...but NO...I would be able to get at least 35-40 in the round IF they did go that high.
I get 100-250 apiece for them now. Don't get many calls for them...but I do like getting them when I do.
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 20, 2010 23:20:48 GMT -5
never say never Huck.
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 20, 2010 23:42:31 GMT -5
I know what I will do and what I won't...skinnin a stinkin nasty flea infested yote is NOT one. LOL
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 21, 2010 6:14:44 GMT -5
must be nice to be rich and not need the money generated by your fur ;D
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 21, 2010 11:40:04 GMT -5
I am fur trappin this year to buy my kids christmas...LOL ADC work gets slow here in Dec. and Jan.
I am far from rich.....this has not been a real good year for the Biz. However, as Dorth and me were driving awhile ago I told her, " my biz aint been great this year, but I see all these other biz's goin under and getting auctioned off. I feel pretty dang lucky really"
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 21, 2010 19:32:19 GMT -5
dang, she isnt with you for your money??? wow ;D
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 22, 2010 0:36:39 GMT -5
Nope...I have told ya....I found a goodun this time. We have a blast at most everything we do.
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Post by backwoodsman on Sept 22, 2010 9:26:50 GMT -5
Our green skinned coons were $5-$8 for the "good" ones but we had very few small ones(.50-$3), released everything we could except the larger mediums and up. Buddy put all of his coons up and averaged $6 at the local auction. He had a few small/mediums that brought the average down but he figured the "good" coons would have averaged around $8. $5-$11 for the better coons he put up. With rats bringing over $3($7 was common here last year) I'd rather trap more of them then make $1-$2-$3 more each on coons. Our rat numbers are down though so that could change too. Cant trap them if they arent there. I can pelt and stretch a rat in under 2 minutes. Takes a mite longer for a coon, 5-10 minutes.
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 22, 2010 22:39:37 GMT -5
Found out today my buyer aint gonna buy any coon this year. Lookin for another buyer now.
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Post by Sunshine on Sept 26, 2010 6:25:46 GMT -5
does groeny come your way?
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Post by huckleberry on Sept 26, 2010 12:23:23 GMT -5
yeah he cmes pretty close...but the last time I tried to sell to him....well.....let's jsut say I took my fur back home and wasn't happy at all with how his buyer treated the trappers there. Now i aint downing Groeny himself, i ahve never met him. but some of his buyers are a-holes. others i am sure are good guys.
there is another buyer just south i might sell too. He don't pay alot, but does offer other ways to make up for some of it. Like buying carcasses. And I know h has even let some trappers use some of his equipment till they could get their own. New trappers mostly, but he did lone some stuff to a guy that was down on his luck and needed a few traps and knives and so forth for his first few weeks of runnin one year.
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Post by trapper7 on Sept 29, 2010 11:22:53 GMT -5
I will always put up my own fur. I enjoy doing it. My wife nags me about it, saying the time I spend in my trapping shed is probably netting me $1.00 an hour. I don't care. To me, there's a sense of pride and accomplishment when I finished all my fur and can look at it all hanging there.
I agree with Huck, a coyote is the worst thing to skin even with my skinning machine. I had some local coyote-fox hunters who run them with dogs offer to sell me all their fox and coyotes for $5. each. I said I wasn't interested for 3 reasons. 1. Bullets holes and lots of blood is a pain to deal with. 2. Coyotes are a lot more work than other animals. 3. The price isn't there to justify all the work.
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