Fur Sales

Has anyone sold furs their furs yet? If so, how did you do? I sold today and I might have just as well given my furs away. They wanted $0.75 for a decent lot of coyotes. That person no saled them.

.75 cents lol!!!

What did your fur bring?

Muskrat: $0.75-4 they were early not very prime fur.
Opossum: $0.75.
Skunk: $4.
Coon: $0.25-4.5
Coyotes: $9-12
I didn't have any bobcats but they were bringing $25-150
One guy had 57 green coyotes and only 15 got bids.
All my furs are put up. Buyers were telling me that I had them done how they wanted.

Was this at the Kansas auction?

yes. Abilene

were you there

The buyers were after bobcats

Sounds like the "buyers" who were there may have been bottom feeders.

Stark, Calps, Archer's, Kan Okla, and a few others. It was a Kansas auction with all Kansas buyers.

Some early fur? Early not very prime fur will have zero value for a few years. That's just market conditions. These buyers were not "bottom feeders" some buy considerable fur in normal years.

Your intelligence is showing through.

I have no problem with bottom feeders, I tend to be one myself at times.
I guess I was trying to say that I don't think those prices nessacarily represent market conditions.
For example, I don't think $4 represent the current price of skunks; skunks are a pretty good seller right now, and have been for some time.
I have no idea the quantity or quality of the skins on the sale. Perhaps there were only a handful of poor quality skunks on the sale.

Sounds like Mississippi price's.

Sold some early coyote late Oct early Nov for $32 The next bunch I got offered $26 turned the offer down and sent them to Co. Auction. The next will go to ID or Mt auction. I realize the traveling buyer has a lot of fuel expenses and motel but wont give fur away.

Was there any beaver or castor on the sale

I thought kansas had good coyotes for the most part?

:Dno

Your avg ks coyote is what the industry calls a "commercial".


For ease of discussion, in the fur industry you can categorize coyotes by the heft, or density of their fur.

Heavy
Semi
Commercial

Color, and texture are a different discussion, but basically, Pale/Silky is easier to sell than dark/coarse.






The farther west you go in ks, the more the coyotes start trending towards a "Commercial plus", or a "Semi minus".





It's been well publicized this year that anything less than good colored heavies will be hard to move.






When buyers are reckless enough to offer money for commercial goods this year , they should be thanked for sticking their necks out. Not insulted by calling them bottom feeders.



That's out of line.

My muskrats that were hardly prime brought more than my prime coons

I got compliments on how good my furs were from buyers.

yes, there was a castor. Green beaver were bringing $8.

Kansas has good coyotes

I'm no fur expert but my coyotes mostly grade semi when I sent them to Canada. I'm in Central part of state and the ones further west are definitely better.

Well, at least you know you are doing things right, then. That will pay off someday when prices improve.

thank you

I was at the Kansas sale. Cats were definitely what they were after. Luckily that's all I had. I will say, in general, the fur handling left a lot to be desired from what I saw. Top end cats were about what I expected. I didn't expect the low end milk stains and kittens to be as strong as they were though.

Sold a few finished coyotes for $35 average

I wish I got that for my coyotes.