Rabbit pelt feeler

I recently met up with an old friend of mine that raises show rabbits. Since the requirements are very strict for show rabbits, he always has a good number of culls. I was wondering if there would be any interest here on FAOL for air dried rabbit pelts to use for dubbing or tailing materials. These rabbits are all colors from all white to steel blue to black ticked with brown or silver etc.. Right now he skins the culls to save the meat, but tosses the pelts. What do you think would be a fair price for air dried (scrapped but not tanned) pelts? Any interest???

Jim Smith

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Originally Posted by James Smith

I recently met up with an old friend of mine that raises show rabbits. Since the requirements are very strict for show rabbits, he always has a good number of culls. I was wondering if there would be any interest here on FAOL for air dried rabbit pelts to use for dubbing or tailing materials. These rabbits are all colors from all white to steel blue to black ticked with brown or silver etc.. Right now he skins the culls to save the meat, but tosses the pelts. What do you think would be a fair price for air dried (scrapped but not tanned) pelts? Any interest???

Jim Smith

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....seems to me the best price I've found so far is 7-10 bucks each for tanned rabbit hides, at
trading posts on Montana Indian Reservations, like Putt Thompson's store at http://store.laststand.com/
They don't have the rabbit pelts on the website. But they're usually there, if you actually go in to the store.

Seems like raw rabbit hide would be a tough sell with that kind of (tanned) competition.
Maybe the real value is to cut it up into raw strips and freeze them....and then fish them as
real Roadkill Streamers http://montana-riverboats.com/Robopa...l-streamer.jpg