Beaver is king... well castor is. Them big spring sacs will pay well.

LLL, I sold my first week of the season coon GREEN for just shy of what you posted hoping to get finished, so don't give me your marketing skills crap.

Heck, you might as well toss all your rats and mink since they hold roughly the same value as a coon carcass, of which last I knew you don't market. My carcass market alone pays ALL my expenses, and still turns a profit, which makes all my fur 100% profit. VERY poor marketing skills on your part.

......no boco wrong again that wasn't me!

Hey walldummy,look again and see who that answer was addressed to.

This is scary, 1st NAFA and now this. Going to be hard to make any profit going forward especially on WI species.

Sorry man but thats not what I was referring. I'm referring to some guy seemingly beimg but hurt if and how much he sold his coons for and seemed upset that he didnt sell to GFW.

Will be interesting to see how many buyers attend the FH sale with world travel restrictions being expanded daily due to Corvid 19. oil price this low, and heard there is a shortage of rice worldwide.

If one wanted to store beaver in the freezer, would they keep better folded, fur out ( unfleshed), or would it be better to flesh them and board them, and then freeze?

I would thing freezing them green would be a better option.

Well what luck .... Sold all the fur Monday .Can't complain on price. All the freezers are unplugged just have stretchers to put away. Been at this for years myself and had a good year. money in the bank all good.

Don't scrape your hides if you plan on freezing them for any length of time.

If you freeze for any length of time you don't want any raw edges showing. It's better to turn both edges In toward the middle and then roll them up starting from the nose.

That is good advice Beav to refresh some . Rally you are so right ,time will show how that will go for all that is going on and change every day .

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but what does GFW mean by "due to unprecedented conditions in the wild fur industry"? Does that mean the low fur prices or the coronavirus or what?

I'm a new trapper and have never sold fur to anyone before. The few furs I caught this first season, I'm keeping to have tanned and make them into stuff.

Best way to keep any fur is scraped super clean(grease free), stretched and dried and then in the freezer.A defrosted freezer so if it goes out there wont be any wet in the bottom and you wont lose any fur.
Keeping green undried fur in a freezer long term is a gamble.

With the fur market the way it is you will be losing more money every month by paying to run the freezer.JMO

I'm guessing a combination of both. The prices are as low as they've been in a very long time. And now the Coronavirus has buyers from China and Italy (two of the major buying countries) unable or unwilling to travel here. Add to that the fact that I believe China is no longer importing fur due to the virus.. there's just no good way to move fur right now.

I believe the reason you store them is because of a bad market in the first place? In the case of Groenwold I suppose he has enough coon and money tied up in them to call it a season. IMO

the price of beaver not worth the electricity it would take to run a freezer. beaver take up way to much freezer room...stretch and dry them (no grease left on them) bag them up with month balls and store them in cool dark place (basement) away from bugs......they will keep better that way with no freezer burn or total loss if freezer quits! if storing several hundred keep your stacks less than 3 feet high or less spread them out alittle.

x2 I was just going to take out of freezer

If storing dried beaver pelts the way wallfur suggests, be very aware of the humidity. Cool is good but excess humidity can be a problem.

You can still ship to FHA cant you???