Hi,
I'm looking for help on keeping furs in camp during hot weather, ie East Texas. (60-80) I don't do too many long trips, but my schedule is working out this year for about 6 days out. I would like to be able to keep the furs for sale, and the buyer requires green. Would they keep in a cooler with ice until I could get home and freeze them?

You need a freezer and generator to run it if you can not make arrangements to plug it in. Ice melting and getting in the fur creates the perfect opportunity for bacteria to grow and spoil the pelt. The folks I know that do the out of state trips and just skin to process later use freezers but you still have to be careful and not put too much in at one time so it does not freeze quick enough.

That's what I thought. Any chance dry ice would work?

IMO, no. IF the pelts were frozen, using dry ice to keep them frozen could work but expensive. I do not think using dry ice to freeze the pelts would be viable.

If you used enough dry ice, it would. But it would be cheaper to buy a small freezer and small generator than the quantities of dry ice needed, plus gas for trips to town to obtain it. Unless it was a one time thing, but it sounds like you are planning multiple trips.

I've fleshed and dried furs while camping before, when temperatures weren't staying below freezing. If you have a dry camp with a heat source set up, it isn't bad, as long as you have room to pack stretchers. Staying in your truck or a small tent without a heat source it won't work, however.

Your best bet is to stretch and dry the skins at camp.

Not sure what your temps are going to be. But I have also rented freezer space in the past at restaurant/bar or store in the closest small town, when I was staying mobile and just camping in the front seat of my truck. When I had a warm spell I would go down to town and ask around about renting freezer space. You can keep furs for a day or two in a cooler, on ice (best to bag them tightly to keep them from soaking in the ice melt) but it won't freeze them, and then you need to either get them frozen, or stretched and dried, or risk slippage.

Boco is correct if you have a permanent camp with a heat source, stretching and drying is the route to go. If you have time and space.

I camp and freeze my furs in a small freezer. Just run a small generator. It’s cold where I camp so I only run it for a few hours thru the day, at night it’s plenty cold.

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