F****ING HAIR!!!! HELP!!!

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Tom102938

Tom102938

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Hi All,

Any tips/tricks/advice on hair whilst skinning. It is doing my head in, every time.

Usually i get a blue lint free cloth dampen it and then wipe the hair off but is there any other ways of doing this? I have though about hosing it down but unsure if that would be a good idea as I dont want my garage ****ed wet through.

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

At the moment i hang from the rear legs and cut from the front legs up passed the ribs passed the side of the haunches and to the gap where you whip the rear legs off. I then go near the haunches cutting from near the ****er around to where i made the initial cut and drag that flap over and then pull down from the back

I aways use the clean hand dirty hand method and cut from the inside to out.

Kind Regards

Tom
 
Hi Tom - it’s hard to avoid hair completely. I also wipe with the a damp cloth but try to avoid hosing it down. I think you have to cut the skin as few times as you can around the haunches and always pull away from the flesh. I also find it helps to have a bucket of warm water on hand so you can have a half time hand wash!
 
Hair removal cream an hour before you start skinning if you are brave enough.

Try to make smooth long cuts on the skin, when skinning roll onto the hairy side and keep rolling reducing the exposure and if wiping, use vinegar than water.
 
Sampo said:
Hair removal cream an hour before you start skinning if you are brave enough.

Try to make smooth long cuts on the skin, when skinning roll onto the hairy side and keep rolling reducing the exposure and if wiping, use vinegar than water.
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I will leave the hair removal haha. I have tried that on my balls before and it didnt turn out well hahaha!

I only make 4 cuts, 2 long and then 2 short and pull the carcass away. I dont know if it is the winter coats or not.
 
You need to find out where it’s coming from. If it’s from your hands it’s an easy fix.

Last weekend I watched someone inexperienced skin and a less obvious obvious mistake is cutting the skin from the outside all over. Cutting the hair makes it near impossible to keep it clean. Start by cutting legs off, then skin by making a small incision and cutting the skin from the inside out.

When you peel the skin use your dirty hand only to touch the hairy parts and use your clean hand for cutting and touching the carcass.

Wash your hands and knives regularly
 
Hi Tom, It was covered recently on another post so you might also get advice from the other thread, I use a kitchen scrub sponge and keep cleaning the hairs off with my hand then rinse my hand in a bowl of water, There's a number of ways I just suppose it depends how many hairs your dealing with
 
Roe this time of year are terrible for loosing hairs.
It is very hard to have zero hairs but you can reduce by using your knife as little as possible and only cut from the inside to out. Already said in early posts, keep hands separate and wash regularly.
 
Avoid shooting deer at peak shedding times. End March / early April deer are shedding winter coats. October - shedding summer and growing winter coats.

I don’t bother too much until early May for the bucks. Prefer to let them get their summer coats and put on some condition after the winter. You also get a much better idea of whether beasts are good and should be left or should be part of the cull.

Last week I had to skin a yearling lamb. Winter coat was covered in poo around the back end. Hung it by its jaw and then peeled the skin downwards with minimal use of a knife and only using the knife to cut away the skin. Once skin was off, then gutted it. Carcass was very nice and clean. I might try this on a roe.
 
tommustoe said:
At the moment i hang from the rear legs and cut from the front legs up passed the ribs passed the side of the haunches and to the gap where you whip the rear legs off. I then go near the haunches cutting from near the ****er around to where i made the initial cut and drag that flap over and then pull down from the back
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I can't quite picture what you're doing but that sounds like too many cuts to me. If you're hanging from the rear then one cut inside of each haunch (from hock down to aitch) to free off the skin from the back legs and then the rest will just pull off. I prefer to hang from the front so would open out the front legs the same way (see vid in the other thread linked) and then the rest comes off as one.
 
75 said:
I can't quite picture what you're doing but that sounds like too many cuts to me. If you're hanging from the rear then one cut inside of each haunch (from hock down to aitch) to free off the skin from the back legs and then the rest will just pull off. I prefer to hang from the front so would open out the front legs the same way (see vid in the other thread linked) and then the rest comes off as one.
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I basically make that cut you have said and then one long cut from the front of the leg up passed the ribs to the first cut. Then peel the rear inside legs over down the back and then peel the front down
 
When I skin a deer I hang from the back legs but I whip the skin off the hocks and take the tail off before I hang it up, then I can peel the skin down the legs and off the main body.
I also cut a strip of skin off the front of the neck from the breastbone up to the neck cut so when I peel the skin off the torso it doesn’t get tight around the neck and it comes away easily.

I don’t get too many hairs on the carcass doing this, even with cwd, but you will get some so a final wipe down with a bit of blue roll or a scourer gets the rest off.

For comparison, I skinned a munty out on Wednesday and there were hardly any hairs (only really around the wound site and the abdominal incision) whereas with a cwd there would still be quite a lot even when taking care.
 
tommustoe said:
I basically make that cut you have said and then one long cut from the front of the leg up passed the ribs to the first cut. Then peel the rear inside legs over down the back and then peel the front down
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Ahh, do you split the breastbone when you gralloch or not? I'm guessing not - in which case that makes sense. I split my chests right open so the skin is cut from pelvis to chin already. Sometimes need to ease it away from the edge of the cut along the breastbone but the long cut is already done.
 
Did a couple yesterday , cwd was a nightmare , guess time of year makes it worse , easiest way for me just kick on get it skinned then take a bit of time to clean the carcass , don’t think there is any way to avoid it
 
I have found using the edge of your knife as a scraper can be quite helpful, especially for the more stubborn hairs. works well so long as you do it methodically, and divide the carcass into areas to do. Leaves you with little balls/clumps of hair that you can then pick straight off :)
 
Skin it off.
Use a knife to scrape away as much hair as you can, dance a plumber torch over it to remove the hair you missed.
Then wipe it.
 
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