This will also let you get any crud you missed when doing your first washing. You want to get the egg mixture off thoroughly.
TAN RABBIT HIDES SKIN
Take the skin that has been sitting for 24 or so hours, and wash it clean. Since we had used tack nails we just removed them gently and nailed them back into the board for re use later. Step 8:Ĭarefully remove the skin from the board. We have been setting it aside for a fairly consistent 24 hours. We thoroughly wet the sheet, then rung it mostly out before putting it over the skin. We used a beat up old set of sheets, and the jersey cotton seemed to do just fine for this. You will need to cover the skin with a damp rag and make sure you cover all of it. Once you have good coverage of the skin with the mixture of egg yolk and water, cover the skin.
TAN RABBIT HIDES HOW TO
Related: How to Keep Eggs Fresh for a Year with Isinglass Step 6: This is a photo of me trying to get a good coverage with the brush at the edge of the skin. You also need to make sure you don’t get any of the egg on the fur side. You need to be absolutely sure you are getting an even coating all over the hide. We have been using a pastry brush to brush the mixture on evenly. In our case it is egg yolk mixed with a teaspoon or two of water. Try not to leave it too long, they do start to stink after a few days, and we suspect they may also degrade in quality as this happens. If you can’t finish fleshing all in one go, re salt the hide and store it away again. Unfortunately at this point I am not skilled at skinning, which makes things that much more difficult for us as we try to clean off the hides. Having a better person skinning the rabbit makes this process a lot easier from what I hear. This is a bowl of mixed scraps of fat and flesh from the skins. You have to be thorough, and also have to not get too deep and get to the hair roots because then you will lose the fur to fur slippage. The Lady of the House has been getting good results by scoring the fat with a sharp knife, but making sure to not cut the skin below. We’ve mostly been doing it by hand, but spoons have been a great help. In this step you scrape off all of the salt, and remove all of the flesh and fat from the hide. This is one of the first hides we salted. Get what ever you can that has no additives to it if you can manage it. You want non iodized salt in large quantities.
TAN RABBIT HIDES FULL
It also makes fleshing the hide much easier as we learned the hard way! You put down a thick, full covering layer of salt. This preserves the hide so it doesn’t rot while we are unable to work on it. Salt the hide, for us with our limited and scattered time this is a vital step. Related: How to Assemble a Flawless Snare for Survival in Just 5 Minutes Step 3: In the future we will be salting first to reduce the damage we do to the hide while fleshing. In our first attempt at this we tried to flesh the hides as much as possible. The pink and somewhat lumpy parts are places where there is still fat or pieces of flesh on the skin that we weren’t able to get off. We recommend using tack nails rather than anything larger since rabbit skin is so sensitive.Īs you can see a skin, somewhat ragged due to my lack of expertise in properly skinning rabbits. Make sure you have pulled it tight as you do so. We have a lot of plywood scraps around and had a 4’x8′ sheet of OSB cut into 8, 2’x2′ squares for the rest. Take the fresh, or green skin from the rabbit and tack it out on a board fur down. For us we just dunked them all in a 5 gallon bucket, and had a second one to rinse them off as we took them out one by one. You are just trying to get the dirt and blood off the hide. Despite life being crazy she has managed to get most of the skins to a fairly significant level of progress with the two hides nearly done.
I have mostly been a secondary assistant doing as I am told in between everything else going on.
The Lady of the House has been working extensively on the hides of our first two litters of rabbits, and has been doing a great job.
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