Aren't the auctions simply amazing? Yes, you do have to sort through, as many are very old or very young, but, there are plenty there that are of a good age and health and just simply great rabbits for the home breeder. I also plan to use the pelts. I'm very fortunate, the BF and his brother do a lot of hunting and trapping, and the brother is pretty skilled at working pelts. We're hoping to convert a heat-less dryer into a pelt worker thing so that the hardest part of curing the pelts would then be the easiest. That would be a great way to do a bunch of pelts all in one go too. I'm really hoping to make blankets before next winter, since it sometimes gets super cold in here, and we have to wait for the fire to toast us all back up. Any pelts I get would only be white, but I do have a dutch buck, so I may be able to get some black babies for black fur. I'll just have to do a bit of research on genetics, or just test it out for the heck of it.
ETA: In my personal opinion, in order to make any bit of money out of the pelts, you really do need to turn them into a finished product, like a blanket, coat, purse, whatever. Rabbit pelts alone don't bring very much money, and you'd probably get lucky to get $1 per pelt. It's really not worth it, IMO, to put all of that work into it for $1.
