Stupid question, but what do you do with muskrats?
—”Stupid question, but what do you do with muskrats?”
A friend that runs a trapline and would check it every morning before work... Also kept an eye out for road kill.. he claimed the coppers collected most of them???
He was very successful in his day job, I always thought he just was happy to be out of the house.
He said it was all driven by the fashion market, some years a very good price others not worth the time.
He didn’t skin them because too easy to damage... the buyer had a meeting spot at the local VFW.
Interesting stuff.
Furs. It’s also possible they’re a nuisance where he traps. Their burrowing compromises levees.
Muskrats are trapped for the fur. Some people also eat them.
I had an absolutely gorgeous muskrat parka for many years and sold it when I moved to Hawaii. I wish I still had it.