Dressed Skunk:
$75 top price

Stretched & Dried Skunk:
$65 top price

Dressed Skunk Tails:
$60 top price

The more white on the tails, the higher the value.
You can ship to us — or bring them to our Forreston warehouse .
See link for shipping instructions.

Call Bryce Kubly with any questions at:
815-275-8201

https://www.gfwco.com/shipping-to-gfw

Please Note:
If shipping by UPS, FED EX or COMMON CARRIER please use the following address:
GFW – Groenewold Fur & Wool Co.
304 E. Avon Street
Forreston, IL 61030

If shipping via US Mail, please use the following address:
GFW – Groenewold Fur & Wool Co.
PO Box 663
Forreston, IL 61030

You can also bring your skunks to the truck at one of our scheduled stops during fur season.
If you sell directly to us at the truck, we’ll grade them on the spot and write you a check immediately.

If you sell skunks to us green, bring them to the truck frozen and flat.

What would the price difference be between put up and fleshed and frozen?

Beav, you & I have sold fur for decades & decades and there always seems to be those same “unanswerable” fur-buyer questions!

I wonder what their BUILT IN AVERAGE is? Give them 50 skunks and 2 will be top $$$ the rest will average out.

A guy is offering $60 for a good skunk tail and some guys are whining . Good grief.

What is “dressed” for us new guys?

Tanned

interesting-wonder what his profit margin is?

Pretty easy to compute. Look at the FHA prices.

You folks with a bunch of skunks better get while the getting is good.

My guess is this won't last long. It is for sure a limited specialty market that will be satisfied soon.

Ive caught less than 20 in the past 30 years...so, Im out.....lol

Thank you

Sleepy Creek will tan a tail for $10.00. But It's going to take 3 or 4 months to get your tails back. So, you just might miss out.

But an august tail from ADC work or a roadkill with lots of long hair and lots of white and getting it tanned just might get you $60.00. Well $50.00.
With groney getting into the skunk market that just might prolong those higher prices for a while. But even at $30.00 it would be better then $8.00 coon and $2.00 rats and $5.00 coyotes. Then add in the essence and the pods and the fat and the skulls you would be in hog heaven.

With Groenewold showing interest I'm thinking the market may have more depth than I originally thought.

There’s gotta be guys buying them in the whole for the trappers that don’t want to deal with them?

Between $2 & $60…..lol.
1000 at the March auction, 2000 at the June auction……next March could be interesting, maybe GFW will have filled the buyers needs by then? How many Jews are getting married anyways? It’s a secret and I’m not telling.
I just bought out all the tanned skunks up here for an average of $65CAD……..lol

Well talking to some people, they are using the tails on hats. And that isn't skunk hats. So, I'm not sure what they do with a skunk hide with the tail intact. Do they cut off the tail after dressing then use it on some other type of hat.
I also heard that the tails were being used in fishing lures. But the people I talked to didn't seem to think that was the case.

I thought that Jewish men were into grey fox hats. Anyway, I heard that somewhere.

Long live the skunk market.

Skunks were abundant here up to a few years ago when the froze out one spring. Heck before that getting 100 was easy now you don’t see much roadkill, I went from several calls a week to a couple calls a month now.

Just my luck

Shtreimels, the Jewish fur hats, are typically made of of fisher, marten or gray fox tails. They frequently use 42 tails because they consider the number holy. It wouldnt take a huge number of shtreimels being made, at 42 skunk tails per hat, to drive the price of skunks up.

Keith

Caught 14 under one shed last January tossed them all . Groeny told me in March he would have gave me 10 each put up , not worth it to me and yes I’ve put up plenty in the past. That was more skunks than I have caught in the last 10 years combined

It makes it even more apparent that this market came up suddenly out of nowhere. I guess June FHA woke up a bunch of folks.

I was told by a reputable sorce GWF has been in the market buying skunks for a bit.Now the market is aware of the price and he have to step up to buy them.




No it's not because there was more profit tacked on top plus sale fees. If you know what the out the door price is to the main buyer please enlighten us.

Can u still smell skunk after the tan process?

Depends on who did the tanning. Also depends how sensitive the nose is of who is doing the smelling. Some folks have a nose connected to their eyes - they see a skunk and automatically smell skunk! LOL

I tried the 3 mix formula last month on a stinky civet and a couple skunk tails it worked fine the foam was surprising looked like a school science project .

Nope, never have smell skunk in ANY I've had tanned by MOYLES. Probably 40-50 pelts

Where is that dang like button?

Lee, you had better get out and BUY some specialized skunk cubbies, cages and traps to PROTECT your grapes as allowed by IRS.
I know those stinky suckers can wreak havoc on wild grapes.

I'd be more worried about coon then skunks.

Gfw was 1 of the 2 buyers at fha bidding on the skunks...

Weird, and they said they weren't. You must know more than them.....lol

Far be it from a fur buyer to bend the truth now and again.

Do you think they are going to admit to it and then advertise they are buying tanned skunks at $60 tops. Which by the way is below the current market value.

It's a very select market so you have to be careful what you say and do. Maybe they did not buy directly themselves but used a broker. That way they could say they were not involved. Like I said before they have been in the skunk market for a bit. The reason for the upward price change is because of competition.

That's why I've never been a buyer. Too big a mouth.

I know the broker that bought most of them for not getting them all….lol.
GFW isn’t based out of the northwest US are they? Aren’t they out of Illinois?

they are in illinois about 20 miles from my house. looks like im gonna be a skunk trapper this year. anyone have any 160s they want to sell?

Anyone have a secret skunk set that keeps coon, and coyotes out?? Lmao.
Guess now I really do need to go find, where I put the skunk lure recipe Asa gave me..


Mac

I'm thinking about putting an ad in Craigslist to buy road hit skunks. Don't that sound like fun?

Just buy those skunk sized live traps Coons and coyotes can't get in.

Best skunk set I’ve found is a brand new trap, your best constructed time consuming set and an expensive lure. Seems they find it before anything else every single time. lol.

Possum will be your first catch here lol

For any interested, I put a 32min video up in the fur handling forum on how I put up skunks. I haven’t fooled around with editing so I did the skinning, fleshing, boarding and essence removal all in one shot. Would’ve been nice to hit pause and flesh/board in the garage.
https://trapperman.com/forum/ubbthr...-to-boarding-essence-removal#Post8447405

Thanks for taking the time to do that, Shakey.

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I’ll be watching it when I get a chance.

Saw a beautiful mostly white roadkill on the shoulder today. If it was October I may have stopped and at least looked at him. Hopefully I’ll decide discretion is the better part of valor by fall. Be interesting to see how long the demand at 30 plus dollars continues. Or in other words how long before trappers overproduce? Might be surprising how many may just target them. How many the Jews need I’m guessing no one has a clue about?

I wonder how soon skunk skins are good enough for the current tail market? It seems to me that by early fall they at least look kind of nice from the outside. Haven't bothered to look up close at a September skunk.

Why didn't you cut off the tail?

Mid summer skunks just doesn’t seem right?