Rabbit hide

If you raise rabbits, you might want to learn to tan rabbit hides. You use more of the animal, and you can make cool things with rabbit hides.

This is the process that we used to make our rabbit foot key-chains. You can also see the video version of this How-To here: How to make a rabbit foot key chain Items needed: (affiliate links

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Usually you pull the entire rabbit skin off in one and you get a type of “tube” during harvesting. Meat and fat needs to be scraped away from the inside of the skin. At the class someone mentioned that you can use the rabbit’s hipbone as a scrape. Once the skin is cleared of meat it can be tanned by smearing it with the brain of the animal. Then it can be smoked. Salt is often used to prepare hides but apparently it makes the hide very hard.

Tanning your first hide at home is easier that you think. Whether it's a rabbit hide, deer hide, or a moose hide, hide tanning is possible with this guide.

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