Fur Farming / A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc.

The manual provides practical guidance for establishing and operating small-scale fur farms, surveying species suitable for domestication and detailing housing, fencing, traps, feeding, breeding, and health considerations. Chapters address enclosures and construction techniques, species-by-species husbandry for foxes, skunks, mink, opossums, muskrats, raccoons, beaver, otter and deer, and methods for humane dispatching, skinning and stretching. It discusses market supply and demand, costs of fences and equipment, and offers plans and illustrations along with hands-on recommendations drawn from trappers and contemporary authorities to help newcomers plan, build, and manage fur-bearing stock.