I am wondering with all things being equal how much extra someone should expect on a finished pelt vs a green one. Particularly interested in coon and red fox.

3-5 bucks right now for coon . Which is better than the pennies youll get from bringing a coon in on the carcass or skinned to buyer right now. Red fox unfortunately not much better unless it will be tanned as a wall hanging or crafting.

Wish we had a place to sell green fur, I’m slow at putting things up.

wws

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I learned pretty quick to set for how many I can handle. Now that I’ve got a lot of freezer space, I can rough skin and toss em into the freezer. Do you freeze the catches when you don’t have time to skin, now that it’s still cold outside?

I do put up my fur throughout the season, but it is a lot of work and was just wondering how much it generally increases the price per pelt over green when selling.

the hard part these days is finding a buyer that will take unfinished hides. On coon they will lose money if they are paying guys to put em up. 20 years ago my local buyer was paying a dollar per step(skin,flesh/stretch) on everything below coyote and beaver which were more. Id imagine those steps have increased. When your lucky to get 5 out of a coon stretched at auction today most buyers arent taking grease or carcass coon unless theyre oddballs.

Only way to get faster is do more fur.

Allot of my catches are damage control and will go to the dump. I do try and put up some fur though. I get paid by landowners.

wws

I always tell myself that is I go thru all the trouble skinning them. What’s a lil more (scrapping and stretching). lol. Is well with it imo. Admiring all your finished fur. I think of it like a trophy case.

It’s certainly nice to look at the product of your labour. Once it’s sent to auction, all I’ve got is the list of fur to look at…..lol.

This is key especially for anyone who is trapping and still holding down a full-time job AND maintaining a family. Most all of us have done that one time or other. My JOB was welding/fabrication at Dow Chemical AND I had a wife & a couple of boys but I never stopped trapping. I couldn’t adjust my job and family time but I could the amount of time spent trapping yet not quit. I’d check traps starting at 4am, catch my ride to work at 7am, weld all day come home and skin & board (no freezer at the time). The weekends were for setting. Sure it’s great to catch big numbers BUT you have to take care of them! As Shakey said, set to catch what you can handle. That’s sage advice! Yup, lots of fun with the catching but handling fur should never become work! Many, many people found that out decades ago when the fur market crashed and the easy $$ of green fur disappeared!

It takes so little to put up a fox. So at least put all those up. Coon are a little more labor and messy. Putting up your fur will bring more money. How much? That's like asking how much your pelts will bring....nobody knows till their sold. What putting up your fur does, is gives you many more options of selling. Say you thawed your fur out and the buyer offers you pennies, you sell to him anyway because now their thawing. Dried pelts you can bring to another buyer at your leisure or send to auction. Also dried pelts weigh considerably less to haul around than heavy greasy half thawed coon.

My fur was finished, although I had a limited amount. I went to sell with some friends who were selling green. Was just trying to get an idea of how much more finished fur would bring. In general it was probably about a $2 difference per pelt.

Well worth it when you finishing out 2 to 3 hundred pelts.

For rats it is about $1 to $1.25 more finished in a $2.50 to $3 finished market that adds a lot. For coon it is about $3-$4 here. I got #3 for 2 and 3x coons and 4 for 4xl and larger this year. I did roughly 50 for hiim He average about $$8.50 on 100 coons.
We don't have good yotes here so I only saw put up yotes (not many) and the ones I saw averaged about $6 with ranges from $1to $16.

Bryce