CAN I FLESH A GRAY FOX AND GO RIGHT TO PICKLE WITHOUT SALTTI

After I skin and flesh and turn all that needs turned on my gray fox
can I go stright to pickle bath without the salt drying?

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OK you get my point. I think salting is a very important step. With salt you remove some of the natural fluids that you pickle with replace. Salt and drain the hide off so that it is "thirsty". Then put in the pickle.

Let me add...

I tan a lot of my own capes. When I do it I don't completely dry my capes out before putting in the pickle. Some prefer to do this but I just my for a couple of days until the fluid is done draining and my salt stays dry. My capes is still pretty pliable. Now I put it inthe pickle.

When you have no choice, you can skip it

I,m a dutch taxidermist and live in a very humid climate. Salting my skins will only make my skin,s wetter (the salt draw moisture out of the air and is actualy wetting the skins untill hair is slipping)
I,m not saying it is the best procedure but as said I have no choice.
After skinning and splitting they go in the auto-tanner at once.
Haven,t lost a skin yet this way. Might be because of the auto-tanner.
The skin,s don,t get time to slip.

Ron

well I might as well get my 2 cents in lol

I have been tanning for 20 years + with no slipping of hides
it depends on the skin you are working with I have skipped the
salting and gone directly in to pickel with no problems but this is
with thin skins fox coyote wolf ect for a skin to slip you need bacteria and it is hard for bacteria to live in fresh pickle
if the ph is maintaned more importantly is a skin is salted or
put in pickle as soon as possible a skin looses 40% of its
tanability in 24 hours at 70f temp but thicker skins should be
salted most slipage is do to poor field care,ph levels or nutralizing
to long depending on which products or formula you are useing hope
this is helpful

well I might as well get my 2 cents in lol

I have been tanning for 20 years + with no slipping of hides
it depends on the skin you are working with I have skipped the
salting and gone directly in to pickel with no problems but this is
with thin skins fox coyote wolf ect for a skin to slip you need bacteria and it is hard for bacteria to live in fresh pickle
if the ph is maintaned more importantly is a skin is salted or
put in pickle as soon as possible a skin looses 40% of its
tanability in 24 hours at 70f temp but thicker skins should be
salted most slipage is do to poor field care,ph levels or nutralizing
to long depending on which products or formula you are useing hope
this is helpful

Thank You all .

Thank you all for your answers they were very helpful.
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Dean