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Shipping fur question
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04/08/24 04:35 PM
04/08/24 04:35 PM
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 1,883 Northeast Wisconsin
NE Wildlife
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How rough can I be to the fur when shipping to get tanned? As in can I bend fold and cram as much as possible into a box or will it leave Permenant seams in it? I have alway sent it lightly wrapped and boxed but the shipping is A kiler, looking to try and pack it into as small of package as possible
Will be bobcat fox otter coyote muskrat and possum
Last edited by NE Wildlife; 04/08/24 04:36 PM.
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Re: Shipping fur question
[Re: NE Wildlife]
#8117577
04/08/24 04:49 PM
04/08/24 04:49 PM
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I've had luck bending thinner hided stuff. Fox, coyote, marten. lynx. I am wary of bending cardboard hides.
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Re: Shipping fur question
[Re: NE Wildlife]
#8117580
04/08/24 04:56 PM
04/08/24 04:56 PM
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Posts: 45,579 james bay frontierOnt.
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Depends on how they have been dried. If they have been dried with heat they can crack if bent. Salt dried skins are very bad for cracking if bent at all. Pelts dried in low humidity and lower temps around 10-15c are flexible and can be bent or folded no problem.
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Re: Shipping fur question
[Re: Boco]
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04/08/24 06:43 PM
04/08/24 06:43 PM
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Depends on how they have been dried. If they have been dried with heat they can crack if bent. Salt dried skins are very bad for cracking if bent at all. Pelts dried in low humidity and lower temps around 10-15c are flexible and can be bent or folded no problem. This^^ A taxidermist friend of mine prefers hides salted to go to the tannery. Since he is who I always recommend to anyone I'm selling taxidermy hides to, I usually salt dry hides I am sending to the tannery. If you are salting hides, fold them up before they are so stiff they will crack, dry but not cracking stiff, shake all the salt off them and leave them in the drying room and they will get hard while folded up.
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