Trevor Barnes, of Barnes Hide and Fur, will be buying fur and castor this Saturday March 6th, at Clay Creech’s Fur Shed near Sumner, Missouri. PM me on here if you’re interested in bringing fur or castor Saturday.
Thanks.

Will be there and bringing some muscle with me. So tell him we don't want no low ball prices.

Wish i wouldn't have sent to fha and delt with Barnes instead. That's what i get for putting all my eggs in one basket.

Take some peanut M&M's with you. He'll give you a better price..he loves M&Ms

TTT

always have gotten good prices from Trevor

Hope you all do well. Good luck

Let us know how it goes y’all take care

Well?? Inquiring minds want to know. Any happy news?

Trevor is going to send me a breakdown for Saturday.
He bought quite a bit of fur. We had over 30 trappers sell. Somewhere around 1300 coon. Maybe 200 of them green. 700 rats. 500 beaver. 150 otter. Quite a few coyotes. A few fox and I’d guess 50 or so cats went through.When Trevor sends me the numbers numbers I’ll share.
As far as prices I’ll make these general observations from Saturday:
-Coon are cheap. Everyone knows it. No surprises. Well handled lots, junk out, $5 to $6 averages.
-Coyotes are cheaper than last year. Missouri has a overall poor, inconsistently colored coyote. Pockets of better than average coyotes exist, but overall our coyote are nothing special. Well handled bunches I saw averaged from the mid to upper teens. I saw 2 bunches of 25 plus coyote average in the 20’s, but these were exceptional coyote for around here. You have to ditch a pile of them to have 25 that good.
-Rats are up. Mostly because of a short harvest, the buyers are pushing the price to get their hands on what’s out these. We have a pretty good rat, however size varies a lot between marsh’s VS ponds. Winter caught marsh rats with limited damage averaged $4.50 and up. Some averaged $5 plus. If you have good rats and have access to Trevor Barnes you’d better give give him a shot at them.
-Beaver was a surprise to me. Well handled bunches with a limited number of hatters in averaged $10 to nearly $12. I saw a lot of 60 green average $5.75. Castor $75/ pound for semi dried. $80 for dried.
-Otter averaged in the mid teens green and $20 or a little better dried.

90 percent of the fur that went through Saturday was finished. I never saw anyone decline Trevor’s price. There was plenty of dickering, but the fur all ended up in the trailer. The long day Saturday mixed in with too many barley pops Friday and Saturday night made for a long, but fun weekend!

Thank you very much for posting that. Sounds like it was fun and productive.

Do you still wish?

That's not a lot of rats, does that reflect prices or populations?

Absolutely, at least i would have gotten a price from an honest man. And could make decision at that time whether to sell to him or not. My fur came from a area that has a decent coyote so who knows what price he would have bid on them but it would have been nice to find out.

So what's the question for? You just gotta be a smart (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman). Or you just like being sarcastic and condescending. Does my answer make sense in your little itty bitty brain?

This isn’t Minnesota lol.
Our rat population isn’t much. Combine that with overall crap fur prices keeping trappers out of the game and you have these kind of numbers.
Coon, beaver, and otter are our bread and butter here.
10 years ago I knew of 10,000 coon caught in this county. That’s just what I personally knew of. I doubt there were 500 caught intentionally in the county this winter. More than that trapped in sweet corn patches come summer!