Treatin fur

dodderangler

Anyone know best way to treat fur without it fallin apart after few days
I plan to make a rabbit lure for the new hawk and I wanna know best way to do it
Skin the rabbit off as hole and treat with salt and leave it to dry was told best way
Any opinions

CJhaughey

dodderangler wrote: »

Anyone know best way to treat fur without it fallin apart after few days
I plan to make a rabbit lure for the new hawk and I wanna know best way to do it
Skin the rabbit off as hole and treat with salt and leave it to dry was told best way
Any opinions

You have to salt skins if you want to keep the hair or it will slip.
Best to salt within an hour or two at most.

German pointer

Get a piece of wood bigger then the skin and nail it on with tacks or small nails making sure it is streatched tight fur side down and give it a good scrape with sharp blade then rub a good bit salt into it and leave it to dry for a day or 2. As said above best do it asap after killing/skinning the animal. Take it off when ready and trim any edge bits you may have missed with the salt

terminator2

look on youtube

vincentf

I'm salting rabbit skins at the moment. Going to stitch them together and make a big heavy dummy for the dog for getting used to retrieving bigger items like hare and fox.

vulpus

You can rub alum or borax onto the skin while you have it tacked up on the frame fur side down-this makes it soft and easy to work/sew with.