Yeah, no kidding. The thing you've really got to watch out for is that pesky light in your freezer. One time mine malfunctioned, it stayed on for days and days, of course I never knew it. I bet you can guess what happened; all my furs "unprimed" in there, gall-dern-it-anyway.

thats TERRIBLE !!! sorry to hear that
hope ya got that fixed

Well, it really was ok, ya see I run drags. Most of my critters run into lightless caves before I find them. Let me tell ya, a few days in those caves and they come out like super prime mutants. Foot long hair on coons and whooly-bugger foxes. I've got to put 'em on the wifes tanning bed for an hour just to skin 'em.

So you skin them and save the eyes as well as the pelt!!! novel thought. I wonder if the August road kills when put in there prime up if you take the bulb out? LOL

Bryce

Why do people trap in the mountains out west a month before the low lands?T.20

T.20 You see, a while back PETA had a super secret experiment going on. They where catching critters and doing things to their endocrine system, espically the penial gland. They were trying to prevent critters from producing prime fur in an effort to sabotage the fur industry. The experiment was a flop, in fact, and to PETA's horror, the animals starting priming early. PETA cancelled the experiment. They took all the now mutant early primers and drove them to the tops of mountains where noone would find them, even dropped a few by helicopter.

And thats why fur primes earlier in the mountains - I thought everyone knew about that.

Ah ha!T.20

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all pms returned keep um coming

are these the same we were issued when joining SPOET ?

Ohbuyer, you never returned my PM! I want a case, whats shipping to 14034? Any pictures?

Careful guys, you've got to be sure their polarized sun glasses for possum. The wrong kind just makes their tail fuzzy.

gary not the same ones"they woudn't fit ya"

FFG check your pm's by clicking "my stuff" where the white envelope is flashing...stupid

whisker d..they are polarized...thanks

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Where can I get a couple thousand of these pellet pills,and the injection device?

Talk to a fur rancher.It's legal in Canada and would think it's approved by now in the U.S.

I think its mostly photoperiod, but weather has to have something to do with it. For example, at the MN state fair, they have a duck pond with all kinds of wild north american duck species, all of them in their full breeding plumage. This is in the last part of august. Any duck hunter knows fully feathered drakes are few and far between even in the end of september. My dad and I asked how they get them to be feathered out, and the guy that is in charge of the ducks said they keep them inside and adjust the amount of light each day to get them to molt and grow their breeding feathers.

What he did say was that the ducks don't grow much of a down layer though since its like 80 degrees in the shed the keep em in. Now if it was light alone wouldn't they grow a thick layer of down like the do in the fall.

Now I know these are ducks and not furbearers. Now think about this, I can't imagine a furbearer getting a super thick prime coat if you decreased their photoperiod and kept their environment at 90 degrees. I have no doubt the fur would change but I can't imagine they would have the same amount of underfur they would in the wild in january in MN. Now imagine that you give an animal say 20 hrs of light but steadily decreased the temperature to very cold, say 0 degrees. I would have to think that that animal would grow a denser coat.

Been said several times already, the only thing that starts and stops fur priming is the amount of light hitting the eye's, makes a special gland go to work.

Now all the other things have an effect on the type of fur the animal will grow, diet and genetics primarily the top sources.

Wish there was an oral pellet pill,could go around with 1000s of em at stategic locations,and catch prime fur from the start of the season.