Hello All,

Has anyone found a good way of getting rid of the hair from a beast that gets onto the meat when taking the jacket off?

No Matter how hard I try I still end up with them on the final joints, and power washing the beast doesn't seem to do the job....

Any ideas?

There was something else too but I forget now!!!

Rgds,

FB

If you find a good way to get rid of hair let me know. I still find them in casseroles!
cheers
Ed

Scraping with a knife is about it, water is useless.

Try a hair brush!

Seriously, try one of those cheap plastic bristle scrubing brushes...you need the bristles not to be too hard or too soft..

Then before you bag the joints up, go over the cuts with the damp brush, rinsing the brush under the tap every few strokes......It seems to get most of the hair off except those that get trapped "in" the membrane if you know what I mean...

Fallowbuck,
how are you skinning them?
we only seem to get hair on the haunches and the rest of the carcass is clean..

Griff

Hey griff,

I used to skin thhem hanging on the gamble. this worked OK starting atthe top(haunches) and finishing at the neck. because most of what I shoot is front boxed I ggenerally lose one or both shoulders. these just get cut off.

Now though I skin on a bench with the beast on its back. it allows me to work downwards and "unwrap" the beast in a way that less hair gets in contact. There is still a fair bit there thought that probably gets on the meat during the gralloch.

Either way I would reccomend using a bench or cradle as the job is a lot easier and the beast doesn't spin about on the gamble.

Rgds,
FB

Fallowbuck,
never tried the cradle, but I know a lot of people that use them,is it one of Dave Strettons?
To skin a roe I start with one leg hanging on the gambrel with the other loose, making a cut about 4" long from the tail straight down the centre of its back, from the cut pull the skin off the leg and hang back on gambrel, drop other leg down and repeat process, making sure that when you pull the skin off the leg you hold the leg with your other hand to stop it being ripped out of the socket, with both legs now skinned hang bothlegs back on gambrel and pull down skin to front legs, make incision up front legs and pull off skin,then pull whole jacket off over neck,I've tried skinning them different ways but this seems to work for me!
Usually takes about 2-3 minutes to skin one out completely, there are usually pins on the haunches around the cut but very few on the rest of the carcass...

good luck

griff

Hey Griff,

I don't know aout roe, as the only time I have skinned one it has been hanging ona rail in a chiller so it doesn't spin. The fallow I usually do are hanging from a gamble on a rope so they are not so easy. Usually it takes me about 15mins like this, but on a bench, (I don't own a cradle yet) it doesn't take more than 10 mins.

But the hair is still a pain!!!

Fallowbuck,
never tried it with fallow, probably too big.have you tried/seen the skinning gantry from D.Stretton.you hang the fallow up by the neck after skinning it back and a hand winch pull the skin off from the neck to the haunches.

I think he has a web site!
"donnington deer management"

griff

I diod a search but couldn't find anything.

If I put any more kit in my house the neighbours will wonder what I'm up to!!!

I got some funny looks last week over the fence as I walked to the compost with two deer heads to bury!!!

FB