Anyone heard any info on Texasfur prices for this year? Mainly interested in west/northwest texas cat, fox, coon prices.

Everyone have a great weekend.

I am a cat buyer and it depends on what time of year you get them. I am in Breckenridge and our cats average $100 to $200 but I have offered over $300 twice so it just depends on the cat. Foxes average about $12 and coons average about $5 to $7.

Is that just for the fur or whole animal?
Do you need a special permit if you are shooting the vs trapping?

If we skin them, how should we prep or preserve them for a day or 2 (at most) before we can get them to you?

I won't start trapping or calling until probably early to mid December. Depends on weather and fur condition.

My buddy's brother usually traps West Texas professionally. He started shipping furs to Canada several years back to a auction there. His Bobcats got around $450 and Lions about $800 Coyotes $150 up. He sets 800 or more traps and was starving on the $3 K a month the ranches paid him so went to the oilfield while its there. Some of his hides ended up in Finland but I think he told me he finally got $26000 for them. I remember boxing out coons and getting a $1-$1.25 for them. Too much work for no return.

You don't need a permit to trap or hunt cats and coyotes, just a hunting license. Foxes and coons you have to have a trappers license. The prices are on unskinned animals. I will offer more for skinned animals if they are done right. When you skin them you can just put it in a gallon freezer bag and put it on ice or in the refrigerator and that will preserve it for about four days. I won't start trapping or hunting until January because cats just keep getting better until about late March.

You forgot to mention that all bobcats have to have a CITIES tag on them before they are sold. Did you buy any north tx cats last year? I heard that they werent worth trapping in north tx. $25 per cat. West and panhandle cats and yotes always bring more. Sure wish they would bring back the live market for yotes

I don't do it to make any money off of it, I do it to put gas in my truck so I can keep going calling. That's enough for me.


Chupa

Where do you get this cities tag ?? How long can you freeze a while cat an it still be good ??

You can get the cities tag from Tpwd.

I furnish cites tags. As long as you don't take the cats out of texas there is no need for the tags.

Anyone heard any updated prices for skinned and/or fleshed/finished furs?

Do you send yours to nafa or do u sell to a fur buyer? Nafa prices should hold around what they were last year but you never know until they start bidding. Also depends on how well you put your fur up. All fur buyers are different hard to say what each one would offer.

Prob to to Nafa if time allows putting them up this year.

Yah that's the only way to go in my book. If your gonna skin them at all u might as well get the most out of it. They have a truck route coming through texas this year with a nafa agent too. I just started puttin some coon up yesterday got the first dozen on the boards

How much do coyotes bring ? An fox ?

Is there a special way to skin them out for you? I ask because you said DONE RIGHT...
We have lots of coons some bobcats and grey fox at my place.

Y'all's coon already prime? I saw a road kill couple days ago out here in west Tx a fit still had a tinge of blue.

I think we need a little more cold weather for those furs to get good

sharp knife

Your wish has been granted. Its nice and cold for sure.

You say you saw a road kill coon and it was blue? How could you tell without skinning it?

You never stopped and split a road kill down the back to see???

I guess you could, kinda seemed like u saw one driving and made the assumption that it was blue by what you saw. Didn't say anything about cutting it. And I set a few traps to check how far along they were a week or so ago and caught 10. About half of em were nice and white leather. Big tittied sows and a few boars still had that slate look but they are real close to bein ready to go all out on em. Headed up to Amherst on the first for 10 days to stack up some yotes, then I'll jump full swing into the coon line. They should be ready by then

Yeah buddy of mine had a couple greys last week that were real close. I am going to start right after Thanksgiving on coon/fox prob start some cat sets first or second week of December.