Thread: Help needed: tahr skin processing

Salt the wet skin thoroughly, lay it out on the floor and pour 2 or more kg of PLAIN salt over it and rub it in all over, right out to the edges so they stop rolling up. Fold it skin to skin and then fold all the legs etc in so you have a long neatly folded skin about 40-50cm wide. Then roll it up and make sure you tuck in any exposed skin when you get close to the end. Tie it up like a parcel with parachute cord and hang it outside, out of the sunlight, for a week. Or alternatively pack it neatly in a pillow case to hang it. It cant be a bucket or plastic bag cos it needs to drain. Then in a weeks time, unroll it, shake of any excess salt and resalt it as the first time. Roll it up and hang it up out of the way for a year or more if needed. Can be shipped to the likes of Black Stag Tannery or your local taxidermist after its had its second salting. No need to freeze it after its been salted properly cos the salt stops it freezing.
And be very careful freezing a green skin, they are so bloody thick and insulated that there will be parts that dont freeze before they have vthe chance to go off and you may find that when you get it out of the freezer and unroll it, you will have the hair come off in the odd place - not a good look!
Any doubts at all, consult your taxidermist or tannery as soon as possible, like today.