Any person who runs his own household wants to use the products of his activity without waste. If you raise livestock, then in addition to processing meat, you need to be able to stretch the skins. There is a way that allows you to do high-quality dressing of skins directly at home.
It is necessary
salt, antiseptic
Instructions
Step 1
Take care of soaking. If the skin dries out without treatment, then it should be soaked. The process is aimed at softening and skinning. Examine the fur surface carefully, remove any accumulated debris and turn the flesh upwards. You should already have a soaking solution. Calculate the proportions based on the fluid ratio. Rabbit skin dry preservation LC = 20. It turns out that for 50 grams of such a skin you need to take 1 liter of liquid. LC = 8-9 for wet canned rabbit skin, and for dry canned sheep skin, LC = 10.
Step 2
By calculating the volume of a liquid based on its ratio, you can significantly reduce the cost of chemical ingredients. In addition, this is the only way to ensure uniform soaking of the skins. Suppose you do not know the liquid coefficient, then prepare the solution so that the skins rotate freely in it.
For the solution, you will need salts of 40-50 g / l and an antiseptic 1-2 g / l. The skins are kept in the solution for 12 hours, then the softness is checked.
Step 3
Flesh. The process aims to rid the skin of the excess layer as well as the remaining meat and fat. Turn the hide stocking inside out and place it on a flesh loom or deck. Rip off the flesh with an iron brush or blunt knife. Start with the rump and work your way up to the head. Now wash the pelt in a solution made from priocel detergent or washing powder at a rate of 3 g / l and salt 20 g / l. Immerse the skin in the solution for 5 minutes, squeeze.
Step 4
Move on to pickling. The pickling solution consists of 50 g salt and 15 g acid per liter of water. Submerge the skin in the pickel for 12 hours, stir constantly. Test the doneness by bending and squeezing the hide. After alignment, a white line should appear at the fold. Now you have achieved your goal and you can stretch the skin in any direction. If desired, until complete processing, you will have to do tanning, fattening and drying.
