how long can you store your pelts?

[mazzgolf]

I am curious how long you can keep your pelts before they start to rot or go bad?

I hear some people say they hold their furs if one year's prices are low - I guess to put them up for sale the following year. But since prices have been low for several years now, I'm curious how long you can wait before the pelts start to go bad?

Do you have to store them a certain way to keep them longer?

 

[Mixbaghunter]

I have left some in the freezer for a year before  you flesh  skin side in 

[mazzgolf]

What about AFTER you prepare it all (flesh and hang). Say you have a bunch of fur you already put up and either you hold back from sale OR you put it up for sale and it doesn't sell. How long can you keep those?

[traphound]

if you don't freeze them the bugs will get them. You might not see them but if you tan them they will fall apart. I have never held mine over except a couple rats a long time ago. 

[Bucndoe]

If you ain't selling in the season you catch them, don't flesh them. If they are already put up sell them. They will spoil, rot, or bugs will get at them if they are not stored in a climate controlled setting.

Edited February 29, 2020 by Bucndoe

[trapoholic]

What it costs to keep them in a freezer 12 months is not worth the gamble. You may sell for a couple dollars more in a year or maybe sell for a lot less. Why take the gamble? Sell now while they are fresh. You will need the freezer space in the fall when the fur is coming in at good numbers.

[Buck154]

For most part I don't think they are worth storing.  We do it as a labor of love and not for the money. It keeps us in the woods more and and is fun. 

[Bucndoe]

I am holding fur. However, nothing is fleshed and I have a freezer that is run all year for other things so that isn't an issue. I usually start fleshing in February but since I have a lot of fur left over that is at the auction house that didn't't sell yet from last year, I'm holding off. If your stuff is finished, sell it.