How To Egg Tan A Rabbit Hide - Tanning Animal Hides Using Salt and Yolk
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- Easy step by step on tanning rabbit hides using salt and eggs.
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oh my just found your channel "most people know how to do this if not get in your kitchen more often" i lost it and subbed that was perfect
Haha, well thank you! Hope you enjoy our content!
yeah that was funny
Subscribed! Excellent video! I'm not a homesteader (yet), just a vulture looking to add to my skill set. I skinned and salted my first hide ever yesterday, and it was a bunny. Thanks for the egg yolk demo, it's exactly what I was looking for!
Welcome to our channel! Have fun with it.
Can you do a video on projects you can do after they're tanned?
Thank you for making these videos, they've been incredibly helpful in my journey.
Meanwhile I can’t even get my girlfriend to LOOK at anything I’ve hunted. 😂
Get a new girlfriend 🙂👍
my fiance literally threw up when i was showing him how to skin and clean rabbit
@@gisellecruz4445 what a woose
Sounds like u might need a new girl lol
I can relate
Lots of great info. I still hear people talking about how rabbits are not good for survival. We know different. Only about 1% less fat than Chicken. Again great video and something everyone should know.
Exactly, thank you!
Thank you so much. Now im finally gonna start on the pelts I have in the freezer !
Love this video, thank you so much for sharing.
I'm still waiting for that video on how to smoke tan.
Nice... pro tip fold the hide skin to skin instead of towels to keep it damp. The fur hold water for longer
So excited you made this video!!!!! Looking forward to attempting to tan my own rabbit hides!!!! :)
VELLY INTERESTING THANK YOU I ALWAYS HAVE EGGS .BUT SOMETIMES I'M A LITTLE SHORT ON BRAINS.GOOOD VIDEO !
Aren't we all, lol
First off I want to say thank you for this video, very easy to follow. I followed your instructions but my hair is falling out something fierce, we had a long rainy period while I did the salt process which took 2 weeks to get it dried out. Then I scraped and washed off the salt. I have no membrane or fat on my pelt. I egg yoked for 48 hours. Today I washed it and set it out to dry. Clumps are falling out. Is it bacteria or something else?
It's because your hide started to decompose. As the fibers break down they loosen and release the hair follicles. May have no salted enough?
Okay there goes my weekend peeling the fat
Thanks for this video. You have helped me so much... in this video you mentioned about water proofing them? Has it been posted yet?
How much time should I spend on fleshing it out? 20 minutes on one seems long, and I feel like it's not even close to being done
I have bad arthritis in both hands so trying to find s simple way
How do you get the very thin membrane off which seems to cling to the sides where the legs and under belly were?
If I leave it out as decoration, would I have to keep applying mink oil? If so how often?
Will this method work w/ squirrels or raccoons?
Thank You!!!
No, one good coating should be fine for indoor use, but you could repeat after a few years. Yes, it works on most hides.
@@GoodSimpleLiving Thank You for Your Reply!!!
I was under the impression that 6 months is approx. The best time to remove pelts. This is when they are junior prime. It that true from your experience?
Question, probably dumb. But will try is process work with wild rabbits harvested. Like jackrabbits and cottontails?
Yes it will
thank you this was very helpful I will do exactly this
Awesome, have fun!
Very helpful vid, and explained well thanks
Awesome, so glad!
Do you have any insight on color genetics you could share?
I know a little, but not much. Something I want to learn more about!
Can you do a video on selling rabbit meat and fur? I'm wondering if done at a small to medium scale a hobby could be profitable?
Nina Valentino that honestly depends on the area your in and demand.
Y'all are awesome !! I love yalls videos !! Question? How would you tan a deer hide ? I'm wanting to use the hides to make things like dog beds and upholstering a chair or 2. Thank y'all !! Your channel has been super helpful !! So glad y'all have been putting out more and more videos ! God bless !!
Thank you Stacy! You can use this method, but for a water proof hide you will need to either smoke it afterwards or use a chemical tan. There are some great tanning kits online.
@@GoodSimpleLiving awesome thank you ! Is there any you recommend?
The other tanning video you have would that make it waterproof?
@@stacyzeth5428 no they would need to be smoked to be totally waterproof
@@GoodSimpleLiving ok thank you !!
Hey now just because I don't generally make anything that doesn't require only egg whites or yolks doesnt mean I'm not in my kitchen plenty
Get in the kitchen!
Well the hair still fall off the ski after this process ?
Great video. I've been told that wild cottontail rabbits skin is too thin to tan. Do you (or others here) know for sure if that is true? Thanks
Can be if they are young
Their skin is pretty delicate. It tears readily.
I need some help. After I washed the hide after soaking in the egg yolks I stretched them and all was going well. Over the next few hours I stretch them a couple more times. I was really happy with how soft and pliable they were but then I got busy and when I came back a couple hours later they're stiffer and more crackly like paper.😞
I did not apply any of the mink oil because I was planning on smoking the hides. Is it not possible for them to stay soft and pliable without the oil at all? Or is there something else that I did wrong? What should I do from this point to make them softer again?
I really appreciate any help!
Research them and restretch. The leather needs to be more broke.
@@GoodSimpleLiving okay, I will resoak them and restretch them tomorrow. Thank you!
Does it matter if you use the soap
Why is smoking hides beneficial compare to the just leaving it at the egg method?
Makes them water proof
Gotcha. Thank you
I've got some squirrel skins that I accidentally let dry waayy too much. Is there any salvaging them? I cannot stretch them and break the fibers and they feel like paper
Yes just rehydrate.
@@GoodSimpleLiving alright I'll get on it, thanks a bunch!
Will this work for wild rabbits?
Yes
Ok great!
Got a question for you that's not related to this video, this just happens to be the one I'm watching. Hope that's okay. Wanted to know how you handle your water system in the winter? I've always had to pull the bottles in the winter because of freezing, but when I use bowls all they do is dump the bowls and are constantly without water.
We use the bottles in winter, and rotate them out in the morning and in the evening. So basically I have 2 for each hutch.... total pain. Winters are mild here though so it's not to many days we have to do that. We will be tweeking this when we move to Idaho.
@@GoodSimpleLiving Winter not so mild here, I have gotten the plastic bottles with the flip to lids now at least. It was a huge pain last winter, I was using the glass bottles and they kept breaking when they froze. That's why I switched to using bowls for the rest of the winter. We're supposed to be down into the low thirties coming up this weekend and early next week so guess I'll see how the plastic bottles do. Maybe I need to put a wood burner in the barn. LOL
We have the flip top also, and sometimes hot water in them a few times a day does the trick.
How does the weather affect the process? Do you wait for a certain kind of weather, like a dry week vs a week with rain?
Just wondering if you're doing this process all inside a garage or something, would it smell worse?
I keep them in a garage
Hey, out of curiosity, if I already fleshed & washed the hide before salting it should I still salt it before throwing the egg on there or could I just go straight to yolk?
Salt anyways to preserve
Good Simple Living Awesome, thanks
I have read on brain tanning and if I remember right it was the fat in the brain. what about egg yolks? What do they provide for tanning?
Exactly the same thing. Yolks are all fat, and work just like the fat in the brains.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is EXACTLY what I was looking for! I’m doing my first hide. Learning some stuff! lol. This was perfect!
How did it turn out?? :D
How’d it go? I’ve got 6 hides to tan
"If you don't, get in your kitchen more often" 😂😂😂 great video, thank you ma'am
Seriously though lol. Thank you!
That along with doing it special for mom cuz you were a 10lb baby, hilarious! Great video
Yup ... I love to cook ... Got ya beat ... First born of 6 ... 10 pound 6 ...
That one got me as well. 🤣😂🤣😂 I bet her girls cook with her all the time.
Your husband knew what he was doing when he met you. Thank you for educating me again on this process. You were quick and to the point!
Thank you, that's so kind!
Thank you for these videos. I’m getting closer to doing meat rabbits but I don’t want to waste the fur. Your channel is a one stop shop.
Thank you, so glad it's helpful! I'm like the Walmart of meat rabbits lol
We do deer hide with feed salt. It's cheaper per volume it's amazing
Nice!
Y’all should make a book and sell it. I’d buy one.
You can also just rub the egg in and start stretching once its saturated, work it until its dry, any remaining egg just flakes off
Farm Life Off Grid I just tanned a deerhide and didn’t wash the egg off. Now it stinks like wet dog😭
@@elizabethdelong2141 If you go the the Crazy Crow Trading Post's website crazycrow.com they have a step by step guide on how to tan raw deer hide. I bought the movie guide but they also have a book. I wish you luck!
That cat should be worried 😂
Haha, no he's my buddy
What is the purpose of that skin
@@enejfalatov6879 what you will do with that
@@enejfalatov6879 you can buy them for about $6 on etsy.
My 10 year old Grand daughter is very excited I’m getting rabbits again. She is very interested in watching the butchering and tanning processes. Thanks for showing her what we will be doing with our rabbits
That's great! My 7 year old daughter does a lot of the rabbit and chicken processing.
Good girl ! .
That's the Spirit...
Old smoking trick that few have even heard of ... Peel and save bark ... Gramps used alder ... Saved the wood for smoking fish and bark for fires ... Bark has tannins so better for hides then food ...
Love that, thank you
Respects for that.
Cheers 👍🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻
@Gabriella Morris Bark of different plants (in this case trees) contain varying amounts of chemicals called tannins ... If they are heated and get into foods they can ruin the flavor making the food inedible 🤢 ... These tannins can however be used in tanning (hence the name) hides ...
After smoking the hides, can the smoke smell be removed?
@@dougeaton888 It airs out nicely ...
I tried to smoke a hide once. ... Couldn't keep the paper lit ;)
hardy har har
Ba dum tiss.
You never know mon.
Lol
TANNING is the preservation method, not salting. Salting is only necessary (to help in removing moisture from the hide quickly in damp environments) if you are going to tan the hides later (when you have enough to do a large batch all at once) and you have no means of freezing the hides... even then ONLY in areas with high humidity such as the southeast USA (aka- hillbilly/swamp rat country). In the southwest/desert, it is not necessary at all. Salting is generally a waste of time/energy/money/materials...
Simple and straight forward! Im gonna try this on my squirrel hides
I've been curious about how to tan hides, great video. I'll have to watch your other tanning video also. I've always thought it would be kind of nice to tan the hide of a deer, so, with the season coming up, it will come in handy if I get lucky! By the way, I recognize the shelves of an extreme couponer! My wife has a similar shelf.
Oh yes, the treasures of a couponer lol. The other tanning video uses alum and salt, and I honestly think it makes s nicer pelt.
Good Simple Living And Homesteading you think alum and salt make a nicer hide? Or eggs? I have a freezer full of hides I’d like to make clothing grade buckskin/furs out of. Trying to get the low down on the best way to go about it!:)
@@elizabethdelong2141 the alum and salt produces a nicer and softer hide.
I did a deer it worked out great
@@greenknightt i am totally going to take this out of context.
congratulations though that is a lot of work
I see you flesh (scrape) the hide after you salt it. I tried this once, and my hide rotten and the hair slipped. I've had much more success fleshing the hide before salting. What's everyone else's opinion?
I've done both. If you hot hair slip and breakdown then it usually from salting to late after rivers start to disintegrate, or not salting with enough to retard the bacterial growth.
I never knew tanning could be so simple! Thank you!
exactly; i've been told that tanning is "HARD to do" and its best to get someone who knows what to do... what a bullshit, it seems kids could do it. im off to tan my first hide
Just about fell over when you apologized for being a 10 lbs. baby. Lol
I was big, then I stopped growing.
@@GoodSimpleLiving So was I but I never felt bad about it until now. So thanks for the guilt! Lol! I'm a new subscriber and I'm teaching my kids how to hunt upland game. My son and daughter are very excited about all the pelts we have. Thanks for taking the time to make the video. Looking forward to watching more!
Awesome thanks! Well I didn't feel bad until I had my own 9 pound 8 ounce baby! Now I feel bad!
@@GoodSimpleLiving that's about what my son was. I'm not even kidding about 20 minutes after he was born my wife said "all we need now is a little girl". I looked at her and said "sweetheart, did you not just see what happened? And you're ready to do this again?!"
@@ivanrodriguez8966 got a sweet laugh & ahh out of this.
Just being nosy, why so much shampoo etc are you stockpiling in case there’s a shortage??
I'm a couponer, it's a weird hobby. I get it when I can get it free so that I never have to buy any. I also donate about half of what I get.
I’m from Northern Ireland and we don’t really do coupons here which I think is a shame.. keep up the good work, I really enjoy you guys and well done regarding the charity fundraiser
@@GoodSimpleLiving ask the Orangewomen or men to get on it
"so you don't have to dig around in their little brains" ... why did this make me chuckle?
Cause no one wants to do that 😂
Instead of digging out... easier to just suck the contents out...yuk... lol
Omg I've learned so much from all your videos. Thanks for being descriptive and showing all the steps.
I'm so happy that they are helpful!!
I’m trying my first rabbit, I salted and then did the yolk process but my towel dried out and my hyde is hard, I’m washing now and letting it soak but noticed there is a lot of (flesh?) left over. I wasn’t really sure how much to scrape because I didn’t want it to get too thin. Any advice? Should I cut off the rubbery parts and start completely over? Or do I just do the egg process again.
I’m living for the sass in this video. You’re the best. Thank you for a step by step, this was great.
Haha thank you!
Thank you for showing me what to do with my future meat rabbits hides🤗😊
You bet!
It works really well to strain the eggs with your fingers. More of the white comes off and the yolks don't break on you from getting cut on the edge of the shell. 😊
Question, I washed my hide prior to salting. Was this a bad idea? Will it still dry? I have it salted, it hasn't been 24 hrs yet but it's still damp. Thank you.
It's totally fine!
Thank you! We butchered 17 rabbits last weekend so I have more pelts, I just hate to mess anything up! Love your videos!
@@karrihazlett3405 for that many look up my alum and salt video.
@@GoodSimpleLiving I will. I froze them all but one.
Karri Hazlett I did the alam and salt and it worked great
Had to pause just about half way a little more through. I had a thought I do not want to forget to share with you! Perfect give away idea: rabbit fur pillow cover/sham, muff, mittens, anything rabbit hide. I bet that would draw a crowd. Just saying.
Not a bad idea1
Good Simple Living And Homesteading - Thank you. I won’t win cuz I never do except once but still who doesn’t like rabbit pelt? Barring vegans and PETA ppl. But who cares about that? 😂
No one but them cares lol! I never win anything either.... except when everyone wins something!
Good Simple Living And Homesteading - Right!?! Lol!
Don't forget bunny slippers.
Would you ever sell us your finished hides? I wouldn’t mind buying one.
What if you miss some of the fat and skin before the egg process? Should you start the whole thing over again? Or just wash, remove the skin/fat that was missed, and egg again? Or is the whole thing trashed?
"10lb baby"
:D
My dog caught a raccoon in my backyard and I wanted to save the tail. Thank you for your informative video. I have my tail in salt now.
I have never heard of tanning with egg yolks before
It works well!
There's another video out there with a squirrel tanner that does this with a modified method that wasn't effective for me. Going to try this one this weekend (for squirrel).
@@ts89540 How did this method work for you?
@@jasminflower3814 Well enough for never having done it before. The hide still isn't water proof, so if it gets wet, it turns back into a board.
@@ts89540 Thanks for your reply. So how are you going to water proof it?
Can you tell me what other oils are acceptable to put on the hide at the very end? I don’t have the kind you put on.
PS.
Thanks for explaining why you choose to “do or not do” in this video and explaining alternatives. So often people talk things through but don’t slow down and explain. And yes I’d like to see a video of how to waterproof the rabbit hides by the smoking method.
If you dont get in your kitchen more often. Love it
Truth though
Hey, so I tried this method, and the hides seemed well done, but I couldn't get the eggs out of the hide fully and they smell really bad they will go to the garbage. Any suggestions of what I'm doing wrong? I left the egg on for 16 hours or something like that. ( the hair side is fine the skin side is smelly).
Will this still work if I have my hides Frozen?
Yup!
If you use a sharp razor to just cut on the hide side only instead of using scissors you won’t lose as much fur. And yes, older hides are harder to do but the leather is a lot more sturdy and thicker.
• Does it have to be chicken eggs or can you use duck eggs?
• Can you use natural soaps like liquid Castile?
• Can you use a wringer (like an old fashioned wringer washer) to get the excess water out?
• How do you clean them? Like if you turn them into a pillow or throw, because I'm guessing that you can't put them in the washer.
Sorry for all the questions. Haha. 🙂
Yes you can use duck eggs, natural soap, and a wringer :) you can also throw them in the washer before you stretch, but not afterwards.you really shouldnt wash any furs after that process, but if you want a fur that can get wet you will need to smoke them after this process.
Good Simple Living And Homesteading do you have instructions for the smoking? Will regular Marlboro work, or can I get the cheap zigs from the reservation for smoking? Ok, I’m playing here, but really do like info on smoking hides :)
@@4philipp lol, I need to get a smoking video up soon!
Good Simple Living And Homesteading pretty please
I would also like to see a video about the smoking :)
This makes me sad but also I'm interested lol
I get that.
Better to not waste any part of the animal which fed you.
Hey! I have a quick question; when you condition the hide, do you *have* to use mink oil or can any conditioning oil work? I just started my process to tan, so I have a few days before I am at that step. I just wanted to clarify. I've never used mink oil, and I was thinking about some other oils we could use. I'm not totally sure if I can even find mink oil in my area. I might have to Amazon that bad boy.
And secondly, the whole egg thing... hilarious!
"If you don't, get in your kitchen more often."
I was wondering that too
@@RD-jx4ry I just used a different conditioning oil that I found at my local ranch/farm store. It worked great.
I can’t even get my wife to watch me butcher a chicken from the supermarket
I wish I would have watched this video before skinning my rabbit... everyone else said to flesh right after skinning. Your method is way simpler. I guess practice makes perfect. This was my first skinning.
is there a reason for scraping off the salt instead of just letting it come off in the water while rehydrating? thank you! :)
You don't really want the dry hide to absorb the salt. That's probably why
In Switzerland eating cats is perfectly legal ( marrying cousins too) So butchering and preparing cat fur is basically the same as your showing for rabbits.
So so so so happy to find this, I lost my tanning books years ago. One question, were you a mega couponer? What's up with the store behind ya 😁🤣
Hi there! Glad it's helpful! We are homesteaders, and trying to live a debt free and natural life. I am a couponer :)
@@GoodSimpleLiving Wonderful 😁 glad to be here
I've never seen mink oil being sold is there anything else you can use? Like coconut oil or something?
Thank you! I was curious about the streching part, when and how to do it. This helped a lot. :)
have you used strong magnets to hold down the hides to stretch them? neodymium magnets from ebay would work.
Haven't tried that
Was wondering if this method can be used for tanning raccoons?
Yes it can!
Hey! I'm in the process of tanning my first rabbit hide thanks to your video!! So thankyou :D One little question, is there anything else you can use instead of mink oil? I'm about to wash off the yolk and start stretching but just realised not only do we not have any mink oil, I've also never heard of it haha. But we have a bunch of different oils in the house so just wondering if there's a substitute I can use? Thanks again :)
I'm having thesame issue. What did you do?
What an awesome video!! Every time I watch your channel I learn so much, feel super motivated, and confident in my ability to do this myself! Bonus, I did not know flies don’t like borax!! That is super exciting to know!! Haha!! I’m looking forward to giving beautiful rabbit hide gifts to family this Christmas 😍 Thank you!!!!! 💕
Awesome, I love hearing that!! Thank you, and have fun!
You have a beautiful family, and thanks for saving the rabbit hides. I worked for two years I guess from 1978 to 1980 maybe 80 to 82 some where there about. A company called Dakota Fur and Metal. The winter time work was all hides, Coyote, Badger, Fox, Racoon, Muskrat, Beaver and in the summer time we would take in cow hides. The cow hides would be stacked in a tin shed all hair side down layered all over the floor and I would have to cut off tails and any excess fat then salt them come fall time they would be rolled up hair side out and wait for freezing conditions and then sold (the hair side in this case was not important.). North Dakota where I live freezes almost every night starting end of Oct. But for the other hides they had a fleshing pole that and a knife that looked like a backwards draw knife. The fleshing pole was a pole about the size of a telephone pole not that long but that diameter and one end was on the floor and the other end was raised like you had it propped up on a saw horse, and the business end was shaped like and anvil round end only larger, you would slip you hides on that. They had boards actually coon brds, coyote brds etc for each animal these board kind of looked like small Ironing brds. The company also had a person to sew up the hides that had any fleshing mishaps. When done drying and I don't remember how long that took although I thing overnight, they would be turned inside out noses where the hardest and the starting point, the they had a big tumbler made out of lumber, it was about 8 feet in diameter and about 2-1/2 feet wide and had sawdust inside it and they would throw stanisole in there and the hides would come out of there looking like well........... great. really nice I always thought the Badger looked the nicest. But I being color blind I suppose its not the best.
Take care
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Thank you so much for making these videos! I started raising meat rabbits because of your videos and it's going really well. I just dispatched and butchered my first rabbit last Sunday and we had rabbit stew on Tuesday! You have been an absolute and complete resource and I'm so grateful for your willingness to teach how to do all of this. With that said, I have a question. I used this method for tanning the hide and it never got dry. Even after the salt sat on it for 2 days it was still kinda moist. I put the eggs yolks on for 2 days after fleshing and used the damp towel. The hide never got dry and has stayed completely white. It's from a white rabbit. I'm afraid that it may have been wasted, or that it will just fall apart. Any advice? Should I salt and egg it again? Thanks so much for taking the time to read this!
Awesome!!!
How do you tan hides in cold weather
This is great! I've never heard of This technique before. Thank you for the detailed video!
Yeah irs fun when you only have a few!
Amazing video. So educational. Will definitely consider egg tanning for my pelts ❤❤❤
"If you don't, get in the kitchen more often".... (Hits subscribe)
Can you substitute coconut oil for the mink oil?
Great video. I looked to see if you had posted a video on how to waterproof the hide. You had mentioned you would post a video on how to smoke the hide. Have you posted the video by chance? Also, is there another alternative to waterproof your hide other than smoking?
After putting the salt do you put them on a shade or direct sunlight?
This is the exact method I’m going to do. :)
Question-can these hides sit for a while before smoking? Can smoking be done independently whenever?
Hi! Thanks for the informative video! I love your kitchen it’s so pretty! Do you happen to have a link to your bar stools? Thanks! Watching from Oklahoma
You realise you can reuse that salt right? Scrape it into a bin of water and pour it through a coffee filter then let it evaporate, you could be using the same salt over and over.
@GoodSimpleLiving when you have time, could you make a hide- smoking video? I have looked at other videos but they're hard to understand and they don't tell you how to either keep their color or get it back
Help!!! I'm at step one, after you cut the hide and put salt on it. My question is, will the salt feel hard and crusty after it cures for 2 days? Mine feels wet and like sand. Do i leave it on longer?
What can I do with the fur from a rabbit that was processed almost 4 days ago. Some of the membrane was pulled off but now the whole thing is stiff. Can it be rewet then salted and egged? Or because it's already been so long is it too late?
Thanks for the tutorial. I just got one worry with my own hen’s egg yolk. If I get my clothes stained with breakfast egg for example, usually I have hardly a chance to get that stain out of my clothes. So I am really afraid that using that method I might end up with yellow hides 😨. Did someone ever end up with that?