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14 Jan ’16 - 8:42 am
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If I could get 3 bucks each then that would be something.....

 

I plan on donating as much rabbit as my towns food bank will take so I will have a few hides.

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Domestic rabbit skins:Up to $5 each. Must be #1 quality heavily furred winter skins, fleshed, stretched and dried, fur in, no holes. Must be 20" long or longer from anterior end to base (not including tail). No spring, summer, fall skins. No females that have fur pulled out of necks. If you leave head attached, make sure that the ears are dry. All colors. No urine stained pelts. All skins unsuitable for hair on tanned will be priced at $1/lb. Skins should be fleshed, stretched and dried, with the fur in similar to muskrats but on larger stretchers. Can use possum/coon stretchers
Skulls:#1 quality, Snowshoe: $3.00 each. #1 quality, Jackrabbit: $1.50 each. #1 quality, Cottontail: $3.00 each. WE DO NOT BUY DOMESTIC RABBIT SKULLS
Snowshoe, cottontail, jackrabbit, and rex rabbit skins:up to $3 each. No tears or holes in skins.

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14 Jan ’16 - 8:54 am
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where did you find that?

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I just left a message for a buddy who does a little trapping to see where he takes his hides here in Maine

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Spent all day looking for my old draw knife for fleshing, then I saw my pressure washer and thought to myself, self, why wouldn't that work.

Did some googling.

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So newsettler had to drop his daughter off at the babysitters this morning which is about 20 minutes from the butcher so I asked him to swing by and grab the hides.

So at this point I can do one of three things; flesh, salt or freeze. Since it is going to be well below freezing over the next couple months I decided to freeze to give me some time to figure out which direction I want to go with. So we hung them up from the beam.

There is going to be some serious fleshing going on.

Marco's Hide.

Polo's Hide.

My daughter texted me in the middle of it

I'm probably going to cut the hides in half to make them more manageable during the process.

I am concerned about varmints coming in and messing with them, so going to have to monitor this.

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Day 2, no varmint activity, seems to be pretty frozen, might start cutting off some of the bigger chunks of flesh this afternoon if this storm blows over.

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