NAFA sale started today

[CalTek]

Sorry for the off topic remarks. The member has been removed from the discussion and all off-topic posts removed. We will keep the thread open so that those wanting to add legit comments to it may.

[Blutck]

Coon was a big disappointment over last year. I barely got half of what I was expecting. Didn't see that one coming.

Overall I'm pretty happy but I haven't been in the game for about 8 years since the coon prices crashed and I got caught with my pants down. Back then coon were averaging $32 - 35 dollar for quite a few years and then they went unsold for a sale or two. Then they blew 'em out at about $5 a hide! I think I had around 200 hides in the fur house at that time.....That was a BIG screwing. Put a bad taste in my mouth and out of the game until this year when I thought what the heck, lets try R again as work was slow and I had some free time on my hands.

I averaged $20/coon, $14.32 per muskrat and got $38 for a mink.

How'd everybody else fair out?

Blutck

[trapper]

FHA results coon very lge unsold. Only 35 per overall sold. Mink top 24.00.So they were if anything worse.

[Blutck]

WOW - Quite a price difference in the mink eh? I haven't seen what "top lot" sold for or an overall sale average, but my mink I sent in was graded as (size/grade/colour) LM *SEL DBR-BR.

7 out of the 9 coon I sent in sold, so NAFA bought back 2 of my hides. The 2 they bought back were graded as XXL *SEL 4.

[greatwhite]

I know you guy's are trappers but what is farm raised mink going for? Just curious because my Aunt and Uncle raise mink in NS.

[Fenelon]

Ranched mink prices are extremely variable, as they can selectively breed them for so many colour variations. A quick check of the last sale shows good clearance. males usually about 70-100 bucks. Females about 40 - 55.

[Sharon]

There was a mink farm in London on Commissioners Road West at Brick Street in the 50s. As kids we would torment the mink as we walked to school. No fences everywhere back then . Beautiful animals but viscious. Lost half a finger to one. My Mother was not impressed.

[trappermatt]

Great white the ranch mink market is off 30-50 % from last years highs , prices last year hadn't been seen scince the fur boom of the 80's , there is much going on in the fur market right now and until we see what happens at the upcoming sale in Finland that fha and American legend and saga fur are jointly having we won't know for sure what direction the market is heading in for sure , I'm hoping for reasonable prices at 100 percent clearances

[trappermatt]

WOW - Quite a price difference in the mink eh? I haven't seen what "top lot" sold for or an overall sale average, but my mink I sent in was graded as (size/grade/colour) LM *SEL DBR-BR.

7 out of the 9 coon I sent in sold, so NAFA bought back 2 of my hides. The 2 they bought back were graded as XXL *SEL 4.

that mink is a labelled select skin , one of the best wild mink sold on this sale , those are real nice coon too just not very good colour wise as seen by a 4 colour

[greatwhite]

I thought the prices Fenlon was quoting were lower then last year (Thanks Fenlon). 30 - 50% off that's quite a drop. So I'm guessing my Aunt isn't as rich this year. Yeah the late 80's was the peak. I think my Aunt peaked in sales in 1988 but then they had silver foxes and only a few hundred. Now they have mink I believe they have the largest mink farm in NS.

Great white the ranch mink market is of 30-50 % from last years highs , prices last year hadn't been seen scince the fur boom of the 80's , there is much going on in the fur market right now and until we see what happens at the upcoming sale in Finland that fha and American legend and saga fur are jointly having we won't know for sure what direction the market is heading in for sure , I'm hoping for reasonable prices at 100 percent clearances