no better way to say it...lol nice marty

Wissmiss, I appreciate the clarification on “casty”!

WWS, that is a beautiful coat! WOW!!

You can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you'll never make top cats out of those you pictured. But you could double your money, at least on a western sale, with those cats by doing a better put up and cleaning them up. Clean all that grease out and fluff them and they will look lots better. Many of the eastern and southern cats have much coarser hair, more hairy than fine fur, only so much you can do about that, or color, but you can make them look better.

Give half those cats a dry borax bath, or take a spray bottle of denatured alcohol and spritz them down and rub them thoroughly with corn meal, or both. Paying particular attention to the crotch and edges. Continue to go over them until there are no spots that look greasy or curly. Then take a shop vac and put it on blow and blow them out. Then put them alongside the others and take a picture and post it.

I remember selling some west/central Texas cats to a fur buyer named Tommy King. Myself and some others were asking about pricing. Cats were pretty good that year,some were complaining about price. He goes to the backseat of the truck and pulls out a cat from Wyoming and says when they look like this I can pay more money (lol). I had never seen anything like it. Like posted earlier you could literally hide your hand in the belly 😍

I gave 2 of them a borax bath. They feel a lot fluffier.

… got 200+ for some of my East Tx cats awhile back

… borax and adjustable stretchers with a narrow neck to give them more length

Yes, makes them much fluffier, prettier, and also makes it appear you care more about your quality of put up. That makes a difference, buyers will pay more because if you present a cat you made look as good as you can, they assume you were careful and conscientous with your put up and were more likely to have fleshed and stretched it promptly and properly and they will have less worries about anything slipping, etc.

If you compare pictures you can see that your cats look much better after being cleaned up, but now that your hair is fluffed you can still see there is a lot less hair than on those Colorado cats posted, and color makes a huge difference on cat prices also. They appear castier when not cleaned up, but those are still casty bellied cats. But if you put those three on the sale, just like they are now, unless there is something that doesn't show in the picture the two on the left should sell for better than the one on the right.

… you also may want to get with Perry furs out of Louisiana

… he gave me 65 each for this big chest full of frozen green cats last spring

One way to sell them.What do you think you would have got for them all stretched and dryed?

… not any more with him

… had 20 cats and he wanted them

… sold 16 put up to him several years ago and got the same price as my partner selling green…. Told myself I wouldn’t make that mistake again lol

… probably could have gotten more putting them up and shipping to the bigger cat sales out west though

Nice deal then.

Was that this year compadre?

… I’m thinking 2015 peeler

Savell you need to finish those cats and ship them. You can do better on them.

Where do you ship ETex?

Thanks ya'll! Lots of good info for a newbie. Appreciate the comments.

… I shipped some finished to Oregon year before last … got $75 …but I’d rather ride over to Deridder and sell green and get some boudin and cracklins lol

Savell, I would think about Fallon or ITA sale in Glenn's Ferry. Hate to say it, but the OTC sales are not attracting as many of the buyers as they used to.

Thanks for the info

The biggest differences are normally fur length & density, and within that realm brightness and clarity of the spotting, along with size of course, will be the final determining factor. As a former upstate New Yorker who moved to NV 20 years ago, the difference between high country western cats when placed side by side with those skins from other regions is quite apparent. Shipping eastern or southern cats to some of the bigger western sales may net you a few more bucks, but that would be based on the number of serious cat buyers present. Those "imported" cats still wouldn't grade westerns nor bring western prices.