![]() This helps dry out the fat, blood vessels, and inner membrane of the skin so it doesn’t rot. Make sure your salt is pretty thick over the flesh of the hide. You can also use Kosher salt, or sea salt. Plain salt without iodine from the store works well, and is about a dollar for a decent-sized tub. Make sure the salt doesn’t have iodine in it, as this will alter your results. Take some non-iodized salt and coat the fleshy part of the hides thoroughly. Now, bear with me, this is my first time doing this! But these are the steps I took to tan my very first rabbit hides. You can read how to skin and gut a rabbit here. I’m not going to go over those steps here. These steps are assuming the rabbit has already been dispatched and skinned. This seems like the most self reliant method besides the brain tanning. Salt is cheap too, and readily available for everyone. And even if you don’t raise your own chickens, eggs are cheap. ![]() Lots of people use alum, but that’s not something that I have available to me, so I opted out of that one as well.įor me, the method that made the most sense is the salt and egg tanning method. Some people use mayonnaise to tan their hides, but mayonnaise is a little too expensive to use for that, in my opinion! I’d rather save the mayo for my sandwiches. Fun fact: every animal (except bison, I believe) has enough brain matter to tan their own hide. You can brain tan the hides, which involves using all the brain matter of the animal to tan their own hide. You should do it the way that is best for you, individually. But I’m not totally convinced there is a “right” way. Ask a hundred people how they do it, and you’ll likely get a hundred different answers on what is the “right” way. ![]() There seems to be about a hundred different ways to tan rabbit hides. I’ve always wanted to learn how to tan rabbit hides, but just hadn’t done it…until now! For this episode of the Self Reliant Skill of the Week, I am tanning rabbit hides for the first time ever. But so far, I hadn’t done anything with the hides. Here on our farm, we have raised meat rabbits for about 3 years. ![]()
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