Egg Tanning Rabbit Hides: Raising Meat Rabbits For Fur

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  • Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
  • Raising Meat Rabbits For Fur | Egg Tanning Rabbit Hides
    When homesteading finding multiple uses for things is always a good idea And raising meat rabbits is no different! Today we are egg tanning rabbit hides from the Champagne D'argent meat rabbits we are raising.
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Комментарии • 37

  • @OurLifeOffGrid
    @OurLifeOffGrid 2 года назад +9

    Egg tanning, that's the way I was taught. Beautiful furs.

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  2 года назад +1

      Thank you. The egg tanning was nice in some ways and a pain in others. It felt like we really had to be on time with it (which is something we are sooooo not good at lol) there was little forgiveness with it.

  • @vicdagangon7510
    @vicdagangon7510 6 месяцев назад +3

    Awesome! This is the technique i have been looking for my rabbit hides. Thank you for sharing this video.

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  6 месяцев назад +1

      Glad you enjoyed the video. It was a fun process, though will say it was a bit less forgiving than the alum tanning (though nice to be able to use a natural method and it made for nicer leather as well)

  • @RemsFamily
    @RemsFamily 2 года назад +7

    You guys know so many things about so many things lol I'm amazed about the amount of knowledge you guys have! Keep it up!

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  2 года назад +2

      Thanks so much Remi. We just keep plodding along. We have no lives really lol.

    • @RemsFamily
      @RemsFamily 2 года назад +3

      @@HickorycroftFarm 😂

  • @blujen1642
    @blujen1642 6 месяцев назад +2

    You mentioned doing Mink Oil for Sealing. How did you do that? Can these Tanning Methods be applied to all Furs? This is the 1st Video of yours I've seen. Very well done. Thank you for showing each Step and Varuations of Techniques so well ❤ Blessings

  • @shermdog6969
    @shermdog6969 5 месяцев назад +4

    How do you stop the shedding after its been tanned or did i do something wrong?

  • @joeandsueoffgrid
    @joeandsueoffgrid 2 года назад +3

    Something we haven’t done. Tanning hides, with wild game like bear and deer we’d like to try it. 👍🏻 you guys do so much!

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  2 года назад

      It is a fun project to try forsake. A bear one would be amazing. I remember when I (Steph) was a kid, my parents friend had a bear rug... it was wonderful.

  • @peterv3216
    @peterv3216 2 года назад +3

    yessss! Rabbit stuff finally!

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  2 года назад

      😃 I am not sure what else to film for rabbit stuff. We need to have people fill out a questionnaire of what they would like to learn.

  • @PatrickCoste
    @PatrickCoste 2 года назад +4

    Soooooo many questions about rabbits!!!

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  2 года назад +2

      Lol well we shall do our best to hopefully answer a few.

    • @PatrickCoste
      @PatrickCoste 2 года назад +2

      @@HickorycroftFarm you sure do!!!

  • @GatheredTogetherHomestead
    @GatheredTogetherHomestead 2 года назад +2

    New Subscriber! This is neat we also raise meat rabbits so we may have to try this!!

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  2 года назад +1

      We hate to waste any of what we produce here and for many years we disposed of these beautiful furs. Now we are collecting a pile of tanned ones to eventually create something amazing 😆. Welcome to the channel and glad to have you here.

  • @bettinah.7429
    @bettinah.7429 2 года назад +2

    How do you give your bunny a bath? …lol
    Very interesting and informative video Stephanie.

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  2 года назад +1

      Thanks so much. I actually like how the egg tanned furs turned out more then the chemical tanning, but the chemical one was far more forgiving.

  • @bellyacres3jillyandkerry281
    @bellyacres3jillyandkerry281 2 года назад +1

    Awesome Video thank you!

  • @debster1073
    @debster1073 Год назад +2

    Great video. But could you please tell me how you look after the fur from the get go. I’ve watched a lot of how to videos on processing rabbits but none have actually shown what to do with the fur other then to throw it in the freezer. Is there things you can do with the fur to have it prepared better for when you do go to treat the fur for use? Like do you cut it open and lye it flat to freeze? Do you wash it or flesh it before freezing? I’ve see in one video to roll up in a ball to freeze. So when I pull it out of freezer do I just defrost or soak straight in water or something else? I would like to know what you do with the fur straight from processing the rabbit please. Thanks Deb from Sydney Australia 😊 🇦🇺

  • @IndayMarikit
    @IndayMarikit 2 года назад +1

    wow nice

  • @eminwonderland
    @eminwonderland 11 месяцев назад +3

    Have you tried to smoke hides to waterproof them?

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  10 месяцев назад +1

      we actually haven't yet but do have a friend who has (and from what I understand it's worked pretty well). Certainly something for us to try at some point in the future.

  • @andrewheynig2721
    @andrewheynig2721 6 месяцев назад +1

    I assume you raise rabbits.
    So do you use furs all year or just winter furs

  • @tykwang
    @tykwang 6 месяцев назад

    Do you smoke it after or finish at the stretching step?

  • @LearningCurveAcres
    @LearningCurveAcres 2 года назад +1

    I tried egg tanning a fur, but I messed up and the fur was coming off.

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  2 года назад +1

      We had that on one that we did. It was our error though. We think it was because we let it dry out to much during the tanning process.

  • @micahallen4699
    @micahallen4699 Год назад +1

    What is the end result? Who are you selling the furs to?

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  Год назад +3

      we don't sell any of the furs at the moment so just doing it for our own projects. Which to be honest we haven't really processed any of the tanned hides into anything other than a nice little rabbit "rug" lol. They are super soft though and have been storing really well. To be honest we find most of the hides are not quite in good enough shape to tan when we process rabbits so its only a very small number that we typically do in a given year (so the stockpile is only slowly growing).

  • @patrickmicheal9480
    @patrickmicheal9480 Год назад +1

    Show us how to tan a Golduck hide next

  • @quentinjackson3778
    @quentinjackson3778 Год назад +1

    Do this method for goat hides

    • @HickorycroftFarm
      @HickorycroftFarm  Год назад +1

      That is cool awesome that you have done it with goat. We never kept any of our goat skins unfortunately. I would love to do one of our sheep one day though. Thank you so much for watching.

  • @akuiori
    @akuiori Год назад +4

    what are the benifets to egg tanning as opposd to salt/allum tanning? why did you choose it ? (i should have watched the whole video, sorry and thanks)