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[A_Fowl_Guy]

I am trying to talk myself into raising meat rabbits. Anyone here have experience?

 

[007Sean]

We haz pollen an we haz dew. We warsh da cah las week!
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Join the crowd Becca, my black truck looks like a banana from the oak pollen!

 

[007Sean]

For pelts. I’m getting raccoons right now and I’m short on hides and high on hat orders.

Do you tan them yourself or send them off to a tannery?

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Do you tan them yourself or send them off to a tannery?

I brain tan them. I get 5 5 gallon buckets of deer brains from a processing plant a few miles away a year.

 

[007Sean]

Lol. I was trying to read without my reading specs and totally misread that last word

I had mine on had to do a double take!

 

[007Sean]

I brain tan them. I get 5 5 gallon buckets of deer brains from a processing plant a few miles away a year.

Ok, I do a little bit of brain tanning, I get beef brains and freeze them and when I need some just thaw them out.
I hope you get a pretty penny for the hats...that's alot of work...and they use to say Indians were lazy...you ever tried to skin and tan a buffaloe?

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Ok, I do a little bit of brain tanning, I get beef brains and freeze them and when I need some just thaw them out.
I hope you get a pretty penny for the hats...that's alot of work...and they use to say Indians were lazy...you ever tried to skin and tan a buffaloe?

Never had the opportunity for Buffalo. I’ve done deer hides. I sell my hats for $40. I have ten orders and 7 hides. I should get 3 more hides tomorrow.

 

[007Sean]

Never had the opportunity for Buffalo. I’ve done deer hides. I sell my hats for $40. I have ten orders and 7 hides. I should get 3 more hides tomorrow.

That was sorta 'tounge n cheek' but I have done both, it's hard work. Also, have tanned rabbit, opossum, coon, deer, sheep, cow hides, fox, bobcat, mink, and various birds. I use to be a taxidermist.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

That was sorta 'tounge n cheek' but I have done both, it' hard work. Also, have tanned rabbit, opossum, coon, deer, sheep, cow hides, fox, bobcat, mink, and various birds. I use to be a taxidermist.

I have a bad sense of humor haha! I make coonskin hats, coyote hats, beaver skin moccasins, opossum hats, and I use rabbit to line all of them. I also make rabbit foot charms and people buy that up quick.

 

[007Sean]

I have a bad sense of humor haha! I make coonskin hats, coyote hats, beaver skin moccasins, opossum hats, and I use rabbit to line all of them. I also make rabbit foot charms and people buy that up quick.

I make traditional plains moccasins, mainly Comanche. I make my own rawhide for the soles.