The Kansas Fur Harvesters Assocation will be having our fur auction on March 15 at the National Guard Armory in Abilene. This is across the road to the north of Sterl Hall where the auction was last year. Doors open at 7 am and the auction will start at 9 am. Contact Roger Macy for lot numbers 785-346-2076.

New this year: We will be allowing other trapping related items to be sold in addition to fur. This includes by-products (skulls, glands, tails, feet, etc), traps/equipment, antler and tanned fur. All by-products must be contained in hard sided containers. All items will be sold by lot, not by weight. Make sure items meet KDWP regulations. We will also be allowing carcass fur this year, mainly for unique items that may be taxidermy quality. Be advised that many common carcass animals such as raccoons, coyotes and opossums are not wanted and will likely not receive a bid. Any item that doesn't receive a bid will be going back home with the trapper.

Here are last year's sale averages:

Badger - $10.13 average, (2 sold)
Beaver - $33.73 average, (72 sold)
Bobcat - $127.96 average, (136 sold)
Coyote - $6.14 average, (58 sold)
Red Fox - $10.25 average, (4 sold)
Muskrat - $2.15 average, (12 sold)
Opossum - $1.07 average, (33 sold)
Raccoon - $3.37 average, (263 sold)
Skunk - $11.20 average, (43 sold)

Our buyers would like to see more fur at this auction. We hope to see you there!

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Be interesting to see.

People actually put up coyotes for 6 bucks?
That’s nuts

What is the requirement to buy glands?

Just show up and bid on them. No fur buyers license required to buy the by-products. You'll settle up with the trappers before they leave, same as fur. Not sure how much of that type of thing will be there as this is the first year for it, but our hope is this will bring more buyers and sellers to the auction.

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I'll b there. will bring a few cats

Good luck

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I have heard there will be a buyer there specifically looking to buy skulls.

any word on how many buyers are attending?

I think it will be similar to last year as far as number of buyers. I do think we'll have more fur and other items at the sale this year.

Coming up

Auction is Saturday, hope to see you there!

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Bringing Fur, Traps, stretchers, bait & lure and a couple of tanned coyotes

looking forward to it.

I was reading the results of the ID sale where 7 TX cats brought 1K each.

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Hope you're sale goes well. Post some pictures.

Bet they would Coyote Muskrat Coon ,Badger for little to nothing for your labor. Must be inferior fur there.

Good bunch of fur,
Looks like a fun time.

Why throw it on the floor? The fur, sellers and buyers deserve better.

Looks to me like they're all on tarps

We had more fur at the auction than we're had in years. High bobcat was $305. Averages include green and finished fur:

Bobcats - $125.75 average (281 sold)
Raccoon - $3.86 average (559 sold)
Coyote - $4.84 average (315 sold)
Skunk - $13.57 average (82 sold)
Beaver - $13.65 average (139 sold)
Opossum - $.60 average (13 sold)
Badger - $23.31 average (35 sold)
Muskrat - $1.46 average (16 sold)
Otter - $36.80 average (10 sold)
Mink - $6.75 average (6 sold)
Red fox - $13.40 average (10 sold)
Swift fox - $22.38 average (21 sold)
Gray fox- $17.00 average (1 sold)

Bobcat skulls - $8.50 average (2 sold)
Raccoon skulls - $1.00 average (24 sold)
Opossum skulls - $1.35 average (15 sold)
Badger skulls - $14.00 average (2 sold)
Coyote skulls - $1.50 average (4 sold)
Beaver skulls - $.75 average (4 sold)
Skunk skulls - $2.38 average (2 sold)

HaHa You're on track! Those elderly fur buyers (like the one with a cane in the photo) will not bend over to pick the fur up, and it's difficult to grade on the floor with just a walk by.

We need younger furbuyers, more speculative maybe?

Our district had 3 small sales about 10-12 years ago. We had around 3,000 pelts at our first one and the last was down to about 800. We just could not find many buyers to attend our sales. I see many of these association sales with limited fur and in some cases several buyers. That is good to see. Maybe long term commitment is important to help build the auction.
To me with these low prices for our typical Midwestern fur it may be good to have association sales. If one is going to lose money and get low prices we may just well do that and spend some time with our fellow trappers. I can see the far western cat sales as those have fur worth a lot of money.

Bryce