Save animal furs for tanning with this skinning method
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Here is my favorite method for skinning mink, rabbits, and pretty much any other furbearer. This method is quick and easy and pretty clean, as long as you can hang the animal on something such as a fence post. In this video, I also teach how to do something I’ve never seen anyone else do, and that is feed the meat of the mink to your chickens and dogs. The meat of all mammals is edible, except for the liver of polar bears, which I explained further, and the bones surrounded by connective tissue and meat are very beneficial in a dog's diet! Dogs that eat natural foods like this are shown to live much longer healthier and maintain energy into old age! Maverick gets a wide variety of furbearer meats and their organs. Some animals like muskrats and squirrels are so abundant in some areas that a small trapline can provide the majority of your pet's calories and nutrition for the year!
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Thank you for mentioning the bone part! Anyone who has had a baked or rotisserie chicken should know how dry chicken bones are. Boiling chicken isn’t really common so people don’t think about how bones become brittle when dry and assume it’s all cooking techniques. Very informative!
My dogs have always loved rotisserie chicken bones and dry bones 😅 never had an issue. I think the whole thing is a myth.
@belugaflying yeah, just because it works for you it must be fake innit
It’s a widely debated issue.
I'm from Philadelphia, so I've never done outdoorsy things. I'm pretty much afraid of everything, but I want to learn. It was hard watching the video, but it was awesome at the same time. So thanks!
I just bark tanned a lamb skin using mimosa hostillis bark, and man, it went well. I followed your instructions, along with Clay Hayes video. It smells so good im basically addicted to the smell, and its really soft as well. I never saw a mink, but it looks like a nice skin for fur material. Greetings from Brazill! 🇧🇷
Thank you so much! I’m glad my video could help!
Underrated channel!
Just met you in person! Super nice and very humble. Keep doing what you're doing! 😊
Saw the quick video on Instagram and I'm thankful for the full video here. Thank you 🙏 Super helpful and informative as always!
I’m glad my video could help!
I love how this channel is a shield to woke culture. Just random dudes watching another random dude skin an animal. Altough I'm a village kid and have skinned a pig before(not whole of course) this was interesting. The tail part is good to know.
Good luck and greetings from the Balkans.
I can a lot, and make beef and poultry bone broth. After two roastings and pressure cooking beef, the bones get tossed, meat goes into the dog dishes. (One day we’ll get a tough grinder so we can make bone meal.) For chicken, 2 hours of pressure cooking, and the bones crush with fingertip pressure. After filtering and defatting, all solids - bone, skin, feet, claws, meat, floaty bits - and the fat are ground in a commercial food processor with raw, organic coconut oil and cooked brown rice as a binder. It’s a thick, sticky, grayish sludge that I call goop. We freeze 2-ounce balls on parchment-lined sheet pans, then into the freezer in 2-gal bags. We give it to the dogs and cats to supplement their kibble. As squirrel and mink bones are so much smaller, I would suspect they’d likely crumble after a couple hours in a pressure cooker. Give it a try, but you have to add a splash of apple cider vinegar to the pot, which helps break everything down. You get the same result with conventionally made bone broth, but I used to simmer foul for 48 hours, beef for 72. (And by simmer, I mean only a few bubbles rising to the top of the pot every 2 or 3 seconds.)
Excellent video. Thanks for the instructions and extra information. 😊
Another Great and informative video.
Truly love How you keep it simple and to the point.
Clear instructions
Though I don't have chickens or rabbits yet.. I do feed my pup eggs, venison (when available), fish that I have caught, fresh garden veggies with very little kibble.
This one was excellent. I never realized you could save the face during a skinning sesh, always thought that must be a super expert or laboratory only technique. Do you think saving the tail/face on a rabbit pelt would work? Thanks for making this stuff accessible!
I've done it!!! Haven't tanned them yet but I have successfully skinned and dried the faces/tail/ears. The ears are kinda tricky there are videos on them.
Excellent video, hands on knowledge is woderful, been doing it all my life. Keep up the good work!
I speak spanisch but I love your videos
(Estara bien escrito, no soy bueno con el ingles)
Great, informative video!! Making full use of the harvest! Good job! To those that were offended, I ask, 'Why didn't you change the channel'?
Hi, could you make a video on how you set up your trap line? I’m mainly curious about trapping mink and weasel. I’m trying to get involved in the art here in Wyoming but it’s kind of daunting lol
Great video, thank you! Either you got a better camera or you did something to get rid of the circles under your eyes. You look healthier now.
Allergy season is over, that’s probably what did it!
I love your videos, Seth. I find them very educational even if I do not find occasion to use them living in a big city. I do have a questions about why trichinosis is not a concern for the chickens as it is for your dog, though. Is it simply due to the different species of animals and how they process food? Can any viruses, parasites, or bacteria be transferred to the eggs your hens produce? And would it be silly to feed the hens the cooked meat you fed your dog?
These are all great questions. I hope he answers them for you.
One study indicates that tichinella (the worm that causes trichinosis) cannot complete its lifecycle inside chickens, so its larvae do not infect the chickens muscles. Very few zoonotic pathogens are passed through chicken eggs. If so, people would be getting trichinosis from the eggs of free range chickens that ate mice. Even so, I regularly de-worm my chickens with natural antiparasitics. It would be additional work to feed my hens cooked meat, but still a very good way to get them additional fat, protein, vitamins and minerals with absolutely minimal risk of illness.
@@sagesmokesurvival, very cool. Thank you very much for responding! 😀
Hey what do you think of doing an updated video on the rabbit hat with the new way you said on the video? Also I think you could try doing some shoes with skin or fur and some leather at the bottom. I hope you can make those ideas into videos. Also you can try doing a video for more types of clothes. And what do you think of raising a pig? You should try it you wouldn’t regret it. Thx for your time!
I never hunted or trapped anything but this was still really interesting.
Thanks for sharing! Totally agree. For some reason our chickens don't lay eggs in the fall and winter.
I skinned racoon 3 years ago for the 1st time, but didn't know how to preserve it. Ir had a good fur.
Thank you
good boii maverick :)
Love the videos and I subscribe a long time ago love it
Our farm dog lives on bones and off cuts, every dog we've ever owned at the farm has outlived anyone else's dogs. It's funny how the people that keep their dogs on leash's, dog collars and in small confined apartments and homes are the ones that tell us farmers that we're the ones being cruel to our animals, funny
Bones???? Please please more info? Off cuts?
are mink invasive?
also, what breed is your dog? you use him for breeding?
have you done health/genetic/temperament testing? is he a wbpb?
quick question, how did you cacth that animal ? ı am really exited about small game traps made by sticks but ı dont know about how effective they are.
I just subbed. You are super articulate. Talented fella. Keep up the good work.
Thanks so much!
Hey can you please tell how you clean your rabbits cage
Man that is a lot harder than a rabbit.
@SageSmokeSurvival Something that came to my attention and according to “google” is that acorns contain tannin and you can extract it by boiling the acorns. Which you can they eat as a snack. But it made me curious if you would do a video on a preserving a hide with acorns. I’m curious to see how effective it would be. Plus it wouldn’t smell as bad as the brain matter 🤣.
Is it weird to find myself saying who’s a good boy though the phone screen 😂
Vertical video NOOOOOOOOO
Can you smoke the meat and it be safe for your dog
You might want to blur out the phone number on your dog's collar
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly, mink stinks like hell.
They can if you nick the glands and they spill fluid. Or if the mink is angry, it can “spray” musk a bit like a skunk. This mink was killed by my trap on a drowning rig, so it never sprayed
Under a hour gang
Do you know mink man
Not sure
Way to go.i ran very big trap.lines. you are spot in.beaver isn't bad meat either
Nothing educational about this because there’s nothing ethical about it. You did this for no reason. A beautiful animal lost for selfishness.
You responded so quick that you haven't even gotten to the part where I use the meat to feed my dog. Doesn't he need to eat? I hope you don't have a carnivorous pet, like a dog or cat, or chickens for that matter! Dog kibble ain't vegetarian, so if you do have such a pet, how do you justify keeping it if its unethical to kill animals for food?
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If it's not educational then how did we learn how to skin an animal, there is ethics about it because it is feeding the hungry, there is a reason because he is skinning it for food for his animals meaning he's taking care of an animal which you clearly love, And finally it's not selfish to feed others if anything that's only selfless
I responded before them
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