couple of nice big ones today, fur buyer said trap so put out a couple live traps,

what do you think I will get for them, $$$

If the white tail hair trend continues, the one on the left is worth more than the one on the right.

Groenwald was buying the last 3 days at NYSTA convention. Highs of 60 or so . He said this should last another year.

Good Luck Roy

Good catch! Crazy isn’t it. Skunks are the big money fur again after so many years

Heard that before. The hatter market didn’t have the another two or three years they implied but maybe the skunks will be different. All of a sudden I’m taking note of skunky looking places . Interesting how my grandpa talked about trapping skunks and how some people in my neck of the woods raised them back in the day and now we have went full circle back to skunks.

Does anybody remember the original Monopoly Game had a community chest card that you had inherited your Uncle_ _ _ _ _'s Skunk Farm? So apparently skunk farms were a thing at one time.

I know of any Oregon trapper who spoke of having spent a summer catching skunks and penning them (back when he was a kid I think in South Dakota), feeding them and then pelting them in the late fall. He made out good.

Had to do a lot of Web searches BP. Finally came up with this

Interesting. Up here, 2 GFW buyers said not to send in summer skunks. Wait until fall.
TD, are you bringing them put up to GFW or selling locally?

Inheriting a skunk farm is a real card in the game of Life, not monopoly. We used to play it backwards and forwards as kids and try to land on the stock market squares. We had pages of 0s for how much money we had.

Keith

Found that one Keith

Nope, this was either a Chance card or Community Chest Card in the oldest version of Monopoly and it had an illustration of a skunk and some old geezer if I remember right.

Time to have the hedge trimmers in the bed of your pickup truck, lots of dead skunks on the road in the fall. It's pretty easy to nip off the tail and skin just that part. Groenewold is also buying skunk tails for $60.

got another big one today more black on tail than white, I'm taking them to Wisconsin convention Friday to Trevor barns,

I sold to Gary at the NY convention 6 South Dakota skunks on Friday,got $40 for 5 of them, and $15 for one of them.
Today found 3 more green in the freezer,lol

I assume $40.00 each on 5 of them?

Why was one only worth $15.00?

And what time of year were they taken?

Yes
dont really know.

End of October, 3 seasons ago, caught in South Dakota.

You’re the smartest one out there to hang onto them!….lol

That's it. It must have been a space rather than a card. It's been more than 42 years since I played life.

I would not mind having a skunk farm. Pet skunks, especially some of the rare colored ones, sell for very decent money and the taxidermy market is good for the old ones.

I might buy some breeders at some point.

A lot of my friends used to put baby skunks in paper bags with starting fluid in it, for a few seconds, to anesthetize them and then scrape the sacks out with a scalpel. They had to be careful not to leave the skunk in the bag to long.

Keith

Let us know how you did Roy on summer skunks.

That’ll be interesting. I got one already put up, 2 in the freezer and one more in a cage which will be frozen soon enough…lol

7 that are going to wis. friday,

I don’t know enough about the tanning process but will these summer skunks survive the dressing process without falling a part. Wonder if they end users know what they’re doing?

I see you’re leaving a little more scrape on them earlier skunks.

too easy to get to the hair roots, I will find out Friday if they are good or should be scrape more,

My experience is that summer pelts tan just fine. The leather is darker and there isn’t any underfur. But it a summer skunk still looks like a skunk. Same with other species.

I know buyers don’t like springy late caught coon because they don’t dress well and you end up losing some pelts. I guess skunk tails is a whole different world LOL They must be hungry for skunk big time.

In my opinion, when buyers say that late caught coon don’t dress well, they are referring to fur quality and not the pelt itself. Late caught coon the underfur is starting to shed and the fur just looks messy and not nice to look at. But that is my opinion.

Yea, but what does a newbie like you know about furs?

Roy they will do just fine.They look good.

I've tanned summer mink fur. Unless you get a pelt at shedding season it should tan ok, it's just a matter of having less leather and shorter, thinner fur.

We sold 8 for a friend and $50 was the top two. He said that he really did not want summer skunks. I directly asked him that question......jk

Hauser sold april caught coon ,and did well. There was a market.
There is one now for skunks.
Funny how skins won't dress,..when those skins are not in demand

So your friends skunks were fall/winter skunks?

Did he sell July and August coon and yes there wasn’t a season for a number of years? Or is trapping prime fur been a racket over all these years? LOL
If you can sell them more power to you. I am just questioning the quality of which is a very expensive hat and why they wouldn’t want better skins but apparently they don’t care as long as there’s white in it.

Blackhammer, I've been comparing summer skunks tails to fall/winter tails. Not much difference in the coarse fur. Now the leather I'm not sure of. Seems as if they just use the tails for these hats from what I've read

I’m sure you’re right. Be interesting to see if there is a premium on larger fully prime with whiter tails this fall. This skunk thing is one of the more bizarre things I’ve seen following the fur trade that’s for sure.

The less leather can make the finished product weak. It is not the hair that holds the product together. This can be helped by gluing a backing.

Was that to GFW? The GFW Canada buyers don’t want summers.

Yes at the New York convention last week. all were winter and the worst one was all black at $10. Which still is not bad for just the tail......jk

here there's not much difference between summer skunks and fall skunks, here the belly real never gets good, I've been watching for years, the spring early spring are the best imo