Home tanning of rabbit skins. The first step after the rabbit is skinned is to cool the hides quickly. I usually freeze our rabbit hides until I have the time to deal with tanning. With this batch, I am tanning 33 hides. I had them in a trash bag in the freezer. I pulled them from the freezer and put them in the bath tub, still inside the trash bag, for a few days. Then I made my first tanning solution, which in this case, for this many hides, was 4 gallons of room temperature water, 2 cups salt, 2 cups alum. Dissolve thoroughly before adding the hides, one at a time. Stir the hides well by gently poking them with a stick or wooden spoon (NO METAL). I put a large tote on top of the tanning solution, to help keep the hides from floating up. Stir the hides a few times per day. At the end of the 2nd day (48hrs), the hides are ready to flesh. This is where this video starts.
