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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2014, 09:53:01 pm »

I've got a freaky secret desire to make an actual purse out of a sheepy one  ???   Just me  ::)
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clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2014, 09:54:06 pm »
me thinks you need some therapy  ;D
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #17 on: October 15, 2014, 01:28:51 am »
me thinks you need some therapy  ;D


Definitely   :roflanim:
"Let's not talk about what we can do, but do what we can"

There is NO planet B - what are YOU doing to save our home?

Do something today that your future self will thank you for - plant a tree

 Love your soil - it's the lifeblood of your land.

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #18 on: October 15, 2014, 06:42:43 am »

I've got a freaky secret desire to make an actual purse out of a sheepy one  ???   Just me  ::)

Can you make one for me too? I won't tell anyone ;)

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #19 on: October 15, 2014, 07:25:25 am »
Well I won't be making one the 'purse' didn't come back with mine. Bit sorry about that now  ;D
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #20 on: October 15, 2014, 08:32:50 am »
You used to be able to get all you needed for curing skins. Formaldehide(SP?)  plus something to keep the skins supple. I'll ask my brother, we used to do them about 50 years ago. Though maybe regulations have changed nowadays. How did folk do it 200 years ago??

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #21 on: October 15, 2014, 09:51:32 am »
You used to be able to get all you needed for curing skins. Formaldehide(SP?)  plus something to keep the skins supple. I'll ask my brother, we used to do them about 50 years ago. Though maybe regulations have changed nowadays. How did folk do it 200 years ago??

You can still get it over the internet - on one of the other threads on his subject someone was talking about it. Taxidermist supplies.... but for me with hopefully 5 or 6 skins it would be just too much work to do it properly.

Auld Cairnallochy

  • Joined Oct 2012
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #22 on: October 15, 2014, 09:52:11 pm »
Where did you get your animal biproduct licence? Animal health Thainstone?

fsmnutter

  • Joined Oct 2012
  • Fettercairn, Aberdeenshire
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #23 on: October 16, 2014, 03:23:53 am »
Just got ours back, there's a form on the government websites, google apply for animal by product licence, i think its something like abp117 the form.

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #24 on: October 16, 2014, 06:55:21 am »
Where did you get your animal biproduct licence? Animal health Thainstone?

just google the name of the form (there is also a thread on here with a link to it somewhere in the sheep section), and then complete and hand in to your local Animal Health Office or fax/post. Mine came back within the week.

clydesdaleclopper

  • Joined Aug 2009
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #25 on: October 16, 2014, 09:50:12 am »


The form had to be sent to Galashiels rather than the local office
Our holding has Anglo Nubian and British Toggenburg goats, Gotland sheep, Franconian Geese, Blue Swedish ducks, a whole load of mongrel hens and two semi-feral children.

Anke

  • Joined Dec 2009
  • St Boswells, Scottish Borders
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #26 on: October 16, 2014, 01:47:58 pm »


The form had to be sent to Galashiels rather than the local office

OK, Galashiels is my local office... ;D I hand-delivered it.

Bekka

  • Joined Jan 2014
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #27 on: October 17, 2014, 10:23:27 am »
I collected my skins on Weds and have heavily salted and hung them up. I have also bought a pack to do the skins myself from snowdonia supplies - would be interested if anyone else has tried this? I did see in an older post that someone suggested this kit but has anyone used it - how successful were you?

lesbri

  • Joined Apr 2013
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #28 on: October 17, 2014, 11:31:34 am »
Hi I used the snowdonia kit last year. It was quite hard work initially scraping the skins to get all the membranes and fat off but I think this depends how cleanly your abbattoir skins the sheep. I found "working" the skins to get them soft quite hard work but not difficult and I was very pleased with the end product although not quite as supple as the commercially tanned skins but very adequate for floor rugs or on the back of the sofa  :) (and much cheaper than sending them off to be tanned). Im not sure if hanging the skins up during salting is a good idea? I would have thought the salt would tend to fall off too soon before they were properly cured? I kept mine lying flat during salting HTH

Bekka

  • Joined Jan 2014
Re: How much salt for skins
« Reply #29 on: October 17, 2014, 01:38:05 pm »
Good point lesbri - but how did you stop the rats/ mice getting to the skins or were they not an issue?

 

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