Bif skin

We got Bif's skin back from the abattoir before the meat. It has been sitting upstairs in salt since then. We finally got round to getting it down for an inspection and to start scraping it ready for curing.

The scraping is to get rid of fat and flesh on the skin before we apply the cure to it

 This is the front side. It is quite dirty, the patches are actually white. Look at the little tail!

There is still a lot of work to do scraping it then many many applications of cure and various rinsings and washings. Pretty big job. The abattoir save all the hides of animals they kill and they are made in to various things from rugs to waistcoats and bags. We are going to ask them if we would be able to pay them to cure our next skin! It will be fun (ish) to do one, but after that it would be amazing if we could outsource it.