Feet on question

I recently caught my first badger and want to get it tanned with the feet on. I already skinned it out and I am in the process of drying it now. My question is this: all the videos I have seen show them creating a slit in the front legs to help facilitate drying. I was able to skin it without creating this slit. Do I need to make the slit, or with enough Borax and dry climate can you dry the legs and feet without it slipping?

As long as it is fur in, and you skinned the toes down to the claw, you should not have a problem or even need borax.

MT is correct, if it’s fur out make a cut on back side of the legs ( the side towards the belly) from the pad maybe couple inches towards elbow, I turn toes inside out and put small cardboard tubes , in the slits to hold leg open,maybe a little borax in the armpit, depending on how long you wait to flip it, Boco starts em drying with legs hanging straight down, i think that helps the armpit to start drying, next day stand it up or they are a pain to store.