Stretching Fur
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Stretching Fur
Does anyone cross the legs on their fox or coyotes on the belly side when stretching. I had a very expierenced fox fur handler tell me to do that last year to give the rump area a fuller look but it really looked bad when i did it. Has anyone else tried this or still do it?
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Crossing the legs is not a big concern with the fur buyers.
For coyotes they want clean fur, no blood or cockaburrs and fully dried, no sour spots.
They want the belley fur long and clear and not matted. When coyote is stretched and dried they want full fur on the shoulders and hipps, thick and silky.. My brother in-law likes to take the cartridge out of the ears and pinn them foward, it just shows that the fur is well cared for and nothing more, by doing this you mite get a few dollars more, but mainly it just makes it look nice and uniform..
For coyotes they want clean fur, no blood or cockaburrs and fully dried, no sour spots.
They want the belley fur long and clear and not matted. When coyote is stretched and dried they want full fur on the shoulders and hipps, thick and silky.. My brother in-law likes to take the cartridge out of the ears and pinn them foward, it just shows that the fur is well cared for and nothing more, by doing this you mite get a few dollars more, but mainly it just makes it look nice and uniform..
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My experience with putting up furs is, try and locate one of the old ringer washing machines, without the ringer. Put your furs in there with a little Dawn dishwashing soap and run it for a few minutes. The Dawn takes out the grease left from the fat and gets rid of the blood and dirt as well. When the fur is all dried the hair is nice and silky soft.
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My fur shed is not heated yet and i used to wash my hides in a bucket also, but when i have 4-5 of them to clean it makes for alot of trips for clean water. Then one nite i was washing my truck and thought hay those matt holders would work great for cleaning hides. So thats how i do them know, and it works great.. T.A.
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