Saturday, 24 December 2011

A Christmas Special

Nothin says Christmas Eve like bein out on the trapline all mornin settin and checkin snares! I just got back from runnin steel with ole Tim! He had a beef to go kill this afternoon, so I decided to head on home and have some dinner and then do my barn chores that I skipped out on this morning.

Wednesday and Thursday night this week I've been goin to Tim's to work on furs. He showed me how he fleshes his raccoons and beavers and I got a weasel in the set I made and he showed me how to skin that! I also went with him on Wednesday night to help him kill a bull. I'm learnin a lot about all this killin and skinnin business!


After we took him home and washed him up and let him dry, it was time for skinnin! After he was skun and fleshed I put him on a stretcher to hang up and dry the hide.


He's a little fella but he'll probably bring in $6 or $7. Every fur counts!

Here's a little video of the fur shed and how Tim fleshes and boards his coons!



I guess we'll take a break and not go check sets on Christmas. I'll give him the day off haha But we'll be back to it next week!

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope ya'll are having a great Christmas weekend!

Until next week!

X Jeremiah


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