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<blockquote data-quote="farmerjan" data-source="post: 1814436" data-attributes="member: 25884"><p>To skin in one piece without cutting down the belly...I hang it from the hind legs from the tractor bucket or on a gate or something.... I just cut all around the back legs, tail. etc and "peel the skin down" and when it gets to the front legs, cut across and around the neck and head so it just peels off them. Used to skin the muskrats like that when my brother messed up his shoulder as a kid and he paid me to skin them so they could go on a stretcher... </p><p>Then I pop the new calf's head in, pull both front feet through... and slide the skin right on them.... like a tube.... it only goes so far and sometimes will slit it a bit if the new calf is a bull so it can pee without getting caught up in the skin... but the cow will go to licking on the new calf, licking the skin... and as she gets "both skins" taste, and they do like to lick new calves alot... the skin will get bunched up and often I will find it on the floor of the barn/pen and the cow says this baby smells right, I have licked it to be sure... and it is hers. Basically it just saves trying to tie on the skin and it takes a little longer for the cow to lick it and the calf to squirm out of it than if tied on... and you know how they can get anything off if they want to.... I never could get a tied on skin to stay for more than a few hours... so this takes care of that. I have only had to "slide off" one skin from a calf , and the cow had accepted the calf fine... 48 hours is usually more than enough time and it is often off by then.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="farmerjan, post: 1814436, member: 25884"] To skin in one piece without cutting down the belly...I hang it from the hind legs from the tractor bucket or on a gate or something.... I just cut all around the back legs, tail. etc and "peel the skin down" and when it gets to the front legs, cut across and around the neck and head so it just peels off them. Used to skin the muskrats like that when my brother messed up his shoulder as a kid and he paid me to skin them so they could go on a stretcher... Then I pop the new calf's head in, pull both front feet through... and slide the skin right on them.... like a tube.... it only goes so far and sometimes will slit it a bit if the new calf is a bull so it can pee without getting caught up in the skin... but the cow will go to licking on the new calf, licking the skin... and as she gets "both skins" taste, and they do like to lick new calves alot... the skin will get bunched up and often I will find it on the floor of the barn/pen and the cow says this baby smells right, I have licked it to be sure... and it is hers. Basically it just saves trying to tie on the skin and it takes a little longer for the cow to lick it and the calf to squirm out of it than if tied on... and you know how they can get anything off if they want to.... I never could get a tied on skin to stay for more than a few hours... so this takes care of that. I have only had to "slide off" one skin from a calf , and the cow had accepted the calf fine... 48 hours is usually more than enough time and it is often off by then. [/QUOTE]
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