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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2012 19:40:30 GMT -7
In a few days, I will be picking up a pair of 90# lambs for butchering. I need to know if folks here are interested in me posting the process.
I am going to save the hides and tan them as well...wooly lamb skins will be a first for me, but I am going to give it a try, and will post on it as well...IF anyone is interested.
Anyone game?
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Post by woodyz on Aug 27, 2012 20:56:27 GMT -7
I am if the process requires any thing different from butchering a hog or a deer. I have never butchered a lamb. I don't think I have ever seen one butchered. Goats, I have.
If it is basically the same, the tanning process would interest me more.
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Post by solargeek1 on Aug 27, 2012 21:24:06 GMT -7
We would be extremely interested. Please post if it is not too much trouble.
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Post by dtucker on Aug 28, 2012 8:37:02 GMT -7
Yes, please I am very interested in the tanning process
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Post by wtrfwlr on Aug 29, 2012 4:33:26 GMT -7
I would enjoy a tutorial series on the tanning process, especially a video. Are you going to do these hair on? What tanning process are you going to utilize, braintan, acidtan, barktan, wood ash, chromium, citric, acorn, eggtan?
I have never had the chance to do a wool hide like that. I would imagine that they would have pretty heavy epidermal layer to break down? I guess you could somehow split it down enough to get some decent softness. What color are they? I bet these could make some really nice furs for projects.
Looking forward to this.
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Post by ncguy on Sept 4, 2012 18:14:31 GMT -7
waiting . . . . . . . . . . .LOL
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2012 18:21:36 GMT -7
Gotta sell my cow to have the $$$ to buy them. She is suppose to get taken to Auction for a sale Wednesday of next week.
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Post by ncguy on Sept 4, 2012 18:47:34 GMT -7
10-4
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Post by wtrfwlr on Sept 4, 2012 21:59:59 GMT -7
That's too bad, I thought you really liked that cow.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2012 23:14:58 GMT -7
I am not selling Abby. She is bred for her first calf to drop in May.
I am selling Sally, my black angus cow. She will be 10 in the spring, and is bred for an early calf...February or March. With prices being what they are, and her being as old as she is, I will be ahead by selling her now. She has been as much of a pet as a cow can be since she was born, but I have to sell her. We don't have enough hay to keep the big cows. So I agreed, I would sell her, and Jim is selling all his mature cows and our big bull, Earl. He is keeping a bred heiffer and 2 heiffers from this years crop. I am keeping Abby and my little bull. I am also getting a new miniature Irish Dexter heiffer (5 months old), and we should have enough hay to make it through to next hay seaosn. He will buy a new bull when it time. Feed adn hay are killing us. 60 bushel of fine ground corn with a 50# bag of stock salt mixed in delivered was almost $700 2 weeks ago, and it has gone up again.
I am not sure I will get the lambs, it depends on the guy that said he would sell them...I want to get 2 of them, but if he starts changing the price on me, then I will pass. We are putting fence up now to be able to take my stock to my house, so next year, I will be able to bring my sheep home (barbados blackbellies), and if nothing else, I will butcher lambs next year.
Its pretty much like a deer, there are just a couple of cuts that get done different. I am really wanting to tan a few hides though. We will have to see what happens when I have $$$ in hand. HOPEFULLY I will have 2 of them to butcher in a week or 2.
Abby is safe. She will live her life on my farm and be buried here. No sale, no butcher...EVER.
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