What's the best way to store green pelts untill the fur buyer buys them?

I would just put them in a bag in the freezer fur out
But don't stack em on top of each other at one
Time or they won't freeze fast enough!

Try posting this on trapper talk you will
Get more feedback!

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You can suck the air out with a vac I'm told . Haven't tryed that but sounds good

After back-clicking three times and finding that I was really on the ADC forum: what the heck do green pelts have to do with ADC work? ( Oh Yeah, I forgot: all our pelts are green )

I sell the pelts if it's season and there prime . Getting paid on the same animal twice is very nice .

If they're in season and they're prime, you're going to skin and stretch them. They won't be green. I've got to admit that there

was a time when I thought double dipping was terrific. Now I use my time in the skinning room to catch more animals and I make

three or four times more money. I don't know of a single trapper or ADC guy that thinks skinning is more fun than catching.

I can't afford the fines or loss of licenses.

How do the legalities work in MI? I can not imagine having the desire or time for skinning. Just not something of any interest...

I like putting fur up almost as much as fur trappin
Itself! Nothing like the smell of drying fur and a cold
Beer slipping out of greasy coon hands listening
To some hank jr

Good question Dave. I know as long as you're in season ( and you have to have a Wisconsin trapper's license to do ADC work ) you

can skin and sell anything that's legal. I also know that a lot of states don't see it that way.

MI has some convoluted language...just have not taken the time to trace it out. Anyone care to post an intrepretation?

Kasey, you said "almost". You'll get over that "wonderful" smell as you get older. ( Maybe not the beer though )

Paul....your still pretty sharp...for living near a bunch of breweries.

A fur trapper will always be a fur trapper. Just because I am a NWCO hundredair, does not mean you little dirt people are out of my loop.

Cannot help myself. Please don't rat me out to the man. But, I just have to skin that XXXXXXXXXXL silver boar coon whacked in the attic. His tanned pelt looks no different than a creamy December.

Funny you should bring that up. My grandson and I were talking and I told him I hadn't had a beer in 33 years. Since he looked at me like I was lying, I told him to ask his grandma. Beer and I had always got along way too well. And the cost back then was less than you pay for water now.

LIVE ANIMALS AND SALE OF ANIMALS
The statewide wildlife regulations clearly prohibit any person from removing game or protected animals alive from the wild.
Exceptions include: 1) a licensed wildlife rehabilitator may hold wild animals specifically for rehabilitation and release, and
2) a person issued a Wildlife Damage and Nuisance Control Permit may hold an animal in captivity for no more than 24
hours specifically for release or disposal. Under the authority of a physician's request for legitimate public health concerns,
or Department request, captured animals may be temporarily held for a longer period of time. The sale of wild animals, dead
or alive, and their parts is also strictly regulated in Michigan. Except for the specific provisions applying to live trapped feral
14 IC2004-3 (Rev. 10/12/2011)
pigeons and dead animals taken during the open season by a person licensed under the hunting and trapping laws to take that
game in areas closed to hunting and trapping, no animals or their parts may be bought, sold, given away or bartered by a
permittee. In addition, these animals, whether dead or alive, cannot be retained by a permittee and converted for their
personal use.


Source: http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dnr/IC...it_368507_7.pdf

I have been getting more and more into ADC over the years and I love it! Other than beaver trapping, ADC work is COMPLETELY different than fur trapping.I try to keep the two separate.I do fur trapping for fun in my free time,I still love trapping and skinning fishers,mink,rats,coon and well, I love beaver trapping but skinning them,not so much!(but it still gets done)If an animal can be used it will.

OhMyGosh, "can't be converted for personal use." Pesky will starve!

N.y. allows it during the open season and you have to hold a rec trappers license also.NWCOs here must have furbearers trapping license or a furbearers trappering training cert. to be able to use any footholds or body grippers over 4.75".
I love trapping for fur.To be able to get out in the wild and catch species that are not the norm in NWCO work.Not to mention that in my area relocation is not allowed or is very restrictive.Most animals trapped here get euthanasized.I would rather use the season to utilize the animals.Being we have 100 coons per sq. mile I offer my first time paying customers free trapping of furbearing species during the open season .I am guilty of doing a favor or two for the unfortunate who can not afford my services in exchange for permission to trap during the season.
I can't say though that I like skinning more then trapping ,but I do take pride in putting up my fur.