I'm kind of surprised that nobody has commented on how cats did on this sale. Must have been pretty awful.

The hatter market needs beaver with underfur.Felt is made from the underfur not the guardhair.
Flats dont have underfur.
If MS beaver have HVY underfur in winter they will be wanted for hatters.
There are a couple videos on utube explaining the felting process.

My bet is those Mississippi's get thrown in with gd dmg and sell for whatever that string goes for. I've not noticed any grade lower than gd dmg for beaver the last few years.

Here is what my northern IL beaver went for.

Anyone else having problems getting into their account?

Since the auction is over, they might be doing a system wide update. I would wait an hour or so and try again.

Things get a bit hectic when the auction ends - buyers want to settle their accounts and get out of North Bay.

Yes, I can not open the link for this March sale but the previous sales when clicked show up. Could be high volume or traffic or they may have other concerns or issues.

Bryce

10,000,000 beaver trappers in the country and a thousand cat trappers. Beaver have been in the tank for a long time so the fact that someone actually bought some is huge news. Cats, not so much. I wouldn't draw too many conclusions from the cat prices at FHA. My intel is that they weren't the best quality.

I dont think FHA is the place to go with cats

Those who had fur on the sale, that was held from previous sales, can see sale results on their accounts now if that fur was PT'ed before this sale. Those would be the lot numbers of your fur that were not in the catelogue because they were already sold PT between sales.

I thought flats didn't have guard hair ? So an Iowa beaver that weights 1.5# is worth a different price than a Mississippi 1.5# beaver to the felt market ?

In my opinion, the best place to sell better western cats is at one of the trapper sales in the country. Glenn’s Ferry, idaho. Fallon Nevada. Nephi, Utah. Prineville, Oregon. Klamath Falls, Oregon.

You also need to consider that the last receiving date for the March FTA sale was in January. Most of the better cats weren’t even in the pipeline by then. I think a better collection will be offered at the May sale.

One more factor - how many cats at this sale are dealer goods with high limits left from when NAFA closed down. I know of at least one dealer that moved all his cats from Toronto to North Bay. I have no idea how many of his have been sold but I’d be willing to guess there are still some left in North Bay. Cats that are 3-5 years old (stale goods) do not do well when fresh goods are available.

A large medium good damage beaver for $27 USD? Way better beaver sale than I dreamed of for certain!

FHA must have updated my account as
it shows they sold three mink left over
from last year's sale.

2 sold for a dollar each & 1 for .50 Cents.

Only some low end muskrat sold with the
best of those being 3X-LG DGD
which went for $2.30 each.

w

Nobody has posted any prices or clearances on cats for this sale so I have no idea what to think of the sale, good, bad or indifferent.

Figure you are asking about bobcats but lynx sold almost 100% and by my maths up at least 30%.

A lot of the bobcats at fur harvesters sell private treaty. For a couple reasons-they are expensive, are bought as needed and also it depends on what colors/styles the furriers need for their market.

If the bulk of the beavers sold at the sale are destined for felt, why would damaged beaver ( scars and cuts from fighting ) even matter to the buyer?

They don't to Groeny.

Hmmm...Groeny somewhat disagrees.