Hoof Skinning For Fun And Profit

[TMALONE]

Nice, thanks for sharing that.

[Matt]

As always Jim, I learn something new everytime I talk to you! Thanks for taking the time to share this great info, I will be doing this on the next few l/s wts I have to do now.

[PickledLex]

Thanks, that was a great play by play!

[BobF]

thanks for sharing that information, I will have to try that method.

[tschuppan]

Thank you that helps alot. I just learned something new again

[Jim B]

Just as a postscript,it used to take me 15 minutes to skin a hoof and that was when I did a lot of them but left the toe bone in the hoof.After I got done the hoof that I photographed for the tutorial,I timed the other 3 and each of those took from 4 to 5 minutes each using the split hoof method and that includes completely removing the toe bone which is very advantagous for reasons stated in the tutorial.Skinning hooves this way,I can do 4 hooves in the time it would take me to completely skin one out,using the old method.That's why I do it this way.

[Darrell]

I did it on an aoudad this weekend that had already been tanned.  The inner soft material was chalky so I got a hollow hoof but worked great.  Took me maybe 20 minutes on the first one then anout 10 on the second.  I filled the hoolow hoof with clay worked great.

[Jim B]

Glad that worked for you Darrell.Once you have done one or two you really get the hang of it.It has been awhile since I have done a tanned one.I believe it probably takes longet since the hoof is stiffer.When you skin a fresh one,it should go even faster.