I live in Colorado and currently send my hides in frozen and the tannery turns,thins and tans my capes.My question is,most of the hunters in my area cape and salt hides until they take them to the taxidermist.Can my capes be salted,and then frozen to send to the tannery?Should I encourage customers to keep hides cool and not salt?Some of these hunts are 5 days long!I am new to this so any help is appreciated.By the way my capes are being wet tanned.
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salt and freeze the cape but it could also have hair slippage.
Salt the cape let stand 24 hours on an incine and resalt then you can hang in a dark dry place and let it fully harden and ship off or ship as is.
A salted cape rarely freezes solid. Keep in mind you use salt to melt ice, next to impossible to freeze something covered in salt. When you salt and dry your capes, the hair will be locked in and they will weigh less when shipping. Not to mention if there's a delay in your capes getting to the tannery they won't spoil. Just my opinion, hope this helps.