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.