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Old 02-13-2024, 11:11 AM
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We are buying porcupine hair these days.

Just the guard hair, 5" plus. Want good winter hair. Stop harvesting in mid-March. White-ish hair not wanted.

Would take whole porkies if not too far a drive and making a trip, but only til Feb 24. But hair is very nice, you can mail to us.

But hair is easy, very good project for your kids. My daughters plucked 30 pigs a winter and made good money at it, like $1000 a winter, takes 1/2 hour per pig, helped them buy their trucks later, and the ranchers really appreciate the service! Helps with rubber gloves for grip, can help the process to warm the pigs up in a heated building for a few days.

5" plus, no wool/fuzz like pull it out of your hair while making your bundle. PM for price if you interested. Average porky yields 1 oz+, most just over, some monsters up to 2 oz. So it pays to let the lill fellers grow altho some of the little ones have crazy long hair, like 12".

If selling whole, please hang/freeze out of sun. I'd be interested in porky rumps+tail skins too if someone wants to do some extra skinning but adult porky rumps only. Like skin porky tail and back end, cut straight across, want heavy quills not fine quills from front half, then please salt and pin to dry. Id need whole before Feb 26



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Old 02-13-2024, 05:35 PM
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Didn't know there was a market for Porky Hair.
What is it used for?

In what month do they start to prime up?
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It’s not April first yet , is it?
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Last time I shot a porcupine I pondered keeping some hair for making bucktail jigs or something.
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Old 02-13-2024, 08:24 PM
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Theres a market for the hair, peoplecwantvit so i trying to buy them some.

Im sure guys tie with it…maybe a guy should pull the short stuff too? But i was raised on 1980s 90s era Alberta Fishing guides and read much George Mitchell… thus id be more inclined to use polar bear!

But because i dont tie, im kinda real big on Berkley Gulp… BIG not small
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Old 02-14-2024, 07:17 AM
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Fur buyer in Lethbridge used to buy whole porkies , but not for the hair ..he was eating them..

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Marty, his name was Barry Mitchell
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Old 02-18-2024, 07:36 AM
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Marty, his name was Barry Mitchell
Wong Mikey! I’m talking about the old issues of the magazine, and old George. He was even a trapper, and I believe I met him at numerous ATA conventions… and his favourite jig was a polar bear hair jig. But the poor man didn’t have the new plastics and pretty colours!
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Old 02-19-2024, 09:18 PM
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Porky hair averaged $ 27.09 an ounce in Montana the other day.
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Old 02-19-2024, 11:48 PM
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Sorry for the mix up Marty. I only met Barry Ana new him as a good advocate for all outdoor activities including trapping.
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Old 03-13-2024, 01:37 PM
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For the active porcupine hair collectors, its getting late, the porky hair colour is starting to fade.

If you have whole, unless you are local, best thing you can do is pull hair and stack it neatly, roots on one end and knock them down square at bottom of bundle. Tips on other end of bundle, bundle showing different lengths of hair according to tips. Make sense?

Will post some pics to clarify
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Old 03-13-2024, 01:57 PM
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Tho bundled mostly end for end butts and tips all staggered. Takes forever to clean this up, maybe an hour per ounce??? So whats it worth if another hour of labour to straighten?


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Old 03-13-2024, 01:59 PM
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Bundle on left is a mess!

Bundle on right is proper

Just like coyote and wolf trapping….
Do it right the first time….
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Old 03-13-2024, 02:25 PM
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Interesting read on porcupine hair. Did a look up to see what the market is for this hair, and a company called Chichester Canada, Inc. is selling this porky hair at $ 124/ounce. Wow! Who would have thunk it, you learn something new every day.
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Old 03-14-2024, 05:38 PM
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That sounds awful high, well beyond normal, but i guess if they can find willing customers whatever.

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