So, yesterday I bought a (dead) rabbit for £4, gutted it, and skinned it. Now the meat’s in a pot and waiting to be cooked for dinner tonight. I gave the head to my ferret, who was absolutely thrilled and ran off to hide it in the back yard.
Is there anything I can do with the skin, apart from discarding it? I wouldn’t mind having a nice furry rabbit pelt to use as a doily or something. Do I have to treat it to prevent decomposition? Can I just put it in the oven on low heat to dry it out? Or is this project something that requires the services of a professional tanner?
What to do with rabbit skin----why, wrap your baby Bunting in.
*Bye, baby Bunting.
Daddy’s gone a hunting,
To get a little rabbit skin
To wrap his baby Bunting in. *
Should you decide to follow the excellent instruction given in Mangetout’s link,I suggest obtaining a cabinetmaker’s card scraper to be used in lieu of the knife during fleshing.
A card scraper is simply a rectangular piece of moderately tempered steel ~1mm thick which has a burred edge and lessens inadvertent nicking.
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Should you decide to follow the excellent instruction given in Mangetout’s link,I suggest obtaining a cabinetmaker’s card scraper to be used in lieu of the knife during fleshing.
A card scraper is simply a rectangular piece of moderately tempered steel ~1mm thick which has a burred edge and lessens inadvertent nicking.
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Or, you could use a kitchen scraper. They generally have a wooden or synthetic handle, and build the same way as the card scraper listed above.
Hang it in your garden on a little cross, as a warning to all the other crop-eatin’ varmints out there! And that little blue coat and pair of shoes with it!
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Hang it in your garden on a little cross, as a warning to all the other crop-eatin’ varmints out there! And that little blue coat and pair of shoes with it!
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Make sure it’s an “X” cross, not a “t”, otherwise people will get some screwy impressions when easter rolls around.
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Make sure it’s an “X” cross, not a “t”, otherwise people will get some screwy impressions when easter rolls around.
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Won’t that just make people get screwy impressions once 30 November rolls around?
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A dead rabbit is worth 4 quid? :eek: Bloody hell! If I knew that, I wouldn’t use the ones I shoot as dog food…
While we’re here, I don’t suppose anyone knows how to tan a fox skin, do they? It might be interesting to have a small foxskin mat or something.
My fiancee has told me that under no circumstances am I to attempt to make a foxskin hat.
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Australia needs to start exporting rabbit meat, canned, with noodles & veggies.
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What is 30 November? The referance dosn"t readily connect with us over here in the states.
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Saint Andrews Day, the national day of Scotland (Saint Andrew was killed by crucifixion on an X-shaped cross.)
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What to do with rabbit skin----why, wrap your baby Bunting in.
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And here I thought most people threw out baby bunting with the dirty diaper.
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So, yesterday I bought a (dead) rabbit for £4, gutted it, and skinned it. Now the meat’s in a pot and waiting to be cooked for dinner tonight. I gave the head to my ferret, who was absolutely thrilled and ran off to hide it in the back yard.
Is there anything I can do with the skin, apart from discarding it? I wouldn’t mind having a nice furry rabbit pelt to use as a doily or something. Do I have to treat it to prevent decomposition? Can I just put it in the oven on low heat to dry it out? Or is this project something that requires the services of a professional tanner?
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If you managed to get it tanned rabbit skins make excellent bicycle seat covers. Or you can make the skin into two tails and hang them from the same bicycle handles.
