Preliminary processing of raw rabbit skin

After tanning, rabbit skin can be used to make collars, hats, children's coats and clothing, which are light and beautiful, and are very popular. Here are some commonly used raw rabbit skin processing methods.

The choice of rabbit skin

For the slaughtered rabbit whether to retain the rabbit skin, you should first take a look at it and touch it. Look at the size of the rabbit and whether the fur is shiny. You can't have malnourished or diseased rabbit skin; you can't have rabbit skin with sparse and dishevelled hair; you can't have rabbit skin that is too small. Choose rabbit skin with a glossy coat. Second, whether to touch the hair, whether the fur is thick and feel good. If the hair is lost and the fur is thin, you can't have it. The average rabbit weighs about 2.5 kilograms and has the best fur slaughtered in December.

Treatment of rabbit skin

The slaughtered rabbit skin should be disposed of in time, otherwise it will stink, lose hair and rot. First of all, the residual meat and fat on the leather plate should be removed, and then dried.

The drying method of light dried skin

The main results are as follows: 1. Light drying method of plate skin.

① pastes the treated fresh rabbit skin on a slightly rough wall (stretch it into a rectangle as much as possible) and stick it in a cool place to dry naturally. Note: when uncovering the skin, do not expose the rabbit skin.

② will be fresh skin outward, the skin plate toward the inside into a rectangle on the mat; or hair in, pull the skin plate into a square, sew on the mat along the edge of the hair, and dry naturally in a cool and ventilated place. Note: the leather plate is generally not insolated, it is easy to become an oiled plate after the sun, and it is not easy to be immersed in water. You can't get caught in the rain, or you'll rot and lose your hair.

2. The light drying method of simple skin

After slaughtering, the simple skin can put its hair in, and the board can be loaded outward into waste paper and rags to make it bulge inside; you can also choose bamboo strips with a length of 120 cm and a width of 3 cm, bend them into a bow, hold them up in a leather tube, tie them up with clips or small ropes at the lower end, do not roll the edges and hang them to dry, and can be dried in winter.

The above methods are simple and easy, but they are easy to be damaged by insects and rodents.

Salt drying or salting of rabbit skin

1. Salt sprinkling method of rabbit skin

Sprinkle 3 cm thick salt on the slightly inclined wood or cement floor, then evenly sprinkle 30% / 50% salt on the fresh skin board, one by one to 1.5 meters high, so that it out of the "water", and then dry naturally for 6 to 8 days. If preserved for a long time, it can be stacked twice and sprinkled with salt. The secondary salt content is 15%-20% of the fresh skin weight. Note: refined salt is the best salt used in this method, because sea salt, especially uncooked sun sea salt, is poor in purity and contains many bacteria, not only poor antiseptic effect, but also prone to salt spots and erythema, so it is not suitable to be used.

2. Salting method of rabbit skin

① put the fresh skin in 24% 26% salt solution, soak it for 16 hours, then shake it dry, hang it to dry, and its moisture content is about 20%.

② put the fresh skin in a mixture containing 15% 20% salt, 2% sodium carbonate and 1% sodium silicate, and marinate it for 15 hours. Take out and stack the leather board on the slope and pack it away half a month later.

The raw rabbit skin processed by this method is not stiff and broken, does not produce worms, and can be softened and filled with water.

The above drying method of light dry skin is suitable for taking skin in dry areas or in winter and cool seasons; if rabbits are slaughtered in hot and humid areas or in summer, the natural drying method will be adopted because of high temperature, damp and rainy, spoilage bacteria and pathogenic bacteria reproduce rapidly, causing pine to fall off. Therefore, salt drying method or salting method can be used to inhibit the reproduction of microorganisms and achieve the purpose of anticorrosion.