Marten and red squirrels, went into their Winnipeg Depo.
Followed all the Manitoba regulations of Covid when doing this.


files of sales bill need resizing.
2 marten were XL's and one was large
Weights were 975 gm, 965 gm and 925 gm.
The smaller size one was done on Top Lots forming boards; therefore the narrower nose.

So how much was he paying ?

just could not let Sharon miss out on a lovely martentail


Canadian dollar is costing 1.30 for a US$.
2 xl would have been 50$ Canadian.

So that is USD?
Thats not bad for those marten.
No grade?

Boco can you not see the maple leaf ? the conversion if for the guys in Alaska to figure their value.
the morning light did not show well on the colour er color but they were more pale than brown.
The two larger were boarderline Semi to heavy.
the smaller one you can see into the tail area so it was a semi

Love those marten , N50 ! Can see the colour variation in all of those.

I see-I wont be selling to him then.

To those guys in Thompson sorry to hear you fur table is cancelled this year.
The only light is that Bruno is back buying this year up there.

27.3582
35 CAD to USD = 27.3582 US Dollars.4 days ago

Nof50-did you have the option to walk when he offered that price?
I can see guys keeping the better heavys for auction and selling the semis maybe to them since there is no grade differential.
Funny they were not graded/coloured,since there is such a difference in price between wts/colours in the market.

I had the option to walk, one marten was boarder line in size, but got bumped up.
Remember that drumming crinkles them up , so you always loose a size. -40% was the blood bath in FHA grading downsizing last auction.
Like Gulo I weigh and measure all my marten and then board size them before sales....that's why there is a tape measure in the photo.
Jason W over the phone offered the same prices, but is 30 miles south so what's your travel worth?

In six months what will be the markets?

With the exception of the highs in 2012 and the coming up and down cycle removed. The last 30 year averages have been around 35$

This was the only reason I was going after marten this year. This one female had between 60-70 ticks of the species Ixodes gregsoni. Last year the Virology lab was going to do some testing on them but as we all know C-19 entered into the picture. You can see all 3 life cycles in the bag. Large adults on the bottom, nymphs are the medium size and larvae are the small pin head size with 6 legs. There is no male described in this species so hopefully a nymph will molt into a male adult. Many larvae attach to the tips of the ears and only look like white specks 1mm in size.
I am looking forward for the income tax receipt for those specimens as they go to the Entomology museum and the marten to our provincial museum.
The squirrels yielded about 100 flea specimens of 8 species

Is this the critter you're talking about ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ixodes_persulcatus

I don't recall ever seeing anything like that on a furbearer here.

No it is not that tick white17.
Ixodes gregsoni
there is a manuscript of Ticks of North America one of the authors is Robbin Lindsay or Terry Galloway with the description this was published 2 years ago and is online.

took me a couple of hundred animals to find my first nymphs 5 years ago, then sporadic since then, last year 3 marten had then 15 miles apart. Then this year 2 of 4 animals, with one as a mega load. The National Virology lab was going to run some PCr test on them but c-19 entered the picture last year and now the domestic mink problem has to be dealt with.

For some reason I can't find anything by using those terms. ixodes gregory

download this pfd it has quite a few references for Alaska ticks as well; cant seem to copy the link.so here is the title.
A handbook to the Ticks of Canada . Biological Survey of Canada
page 202 in the report is the species write up

There are a LOT of Russian sables held over and a new year's crop being put together right now. Given that about 10% of these were sold at the last big sale in St. Petersburg, and the average was about $60 USD for the biggest, better goods, I can't see anyone putting much into Canadian sables this year. It's probably a good time to buy a freezer (if you can find one).

Stretched and dried marten keep very well in a freezer for quite a while.No fat in the leather so they dont get stale.

In my neighborhood we don’t have to worry much about selling low dollar marten , there aren’t any to be found. Population is at a very low point right now.

So with the various fur buyers making their rounds in Canada has anyone been selling. I heard that BC had a good turn out.
TrapperRon can you shed any light on the prices there?