![]() ![]() The trader wants four or five-tonne lots. Fashion dictates colour, but white is the most versatile because it can be dyed. When grading pelts, colour and size are the most important factors. This is one of the developing countries’ biggest problems. Normal hygienic procedures, regardless of the production system, favour quality fur and will prevent skin diseases. It becomes dull, unkempt, and the rabbit neglects grooming. Hygiene: Any physiological imbalance or pathological disorder affects the mature coat immediately. Temperature: Does not affect moults, but if it is too hot, the rabbit will eat less and its coat will suffer. Early onset needs high-tech setups (housing with no windows) and a complicated method (two different fattening periods with different light schedules). Light: Newborn and subadult moults are not seasonal. ![]() These skins can raise more labour, processing, and transport costs than what they are worth. On these skins the hair is gnawed, cut, soiled, sweaty, or parasite ridden. The skin is cut into vermicelli and used as glue or fertiliser. It is machine-shorn for textiles and felting (although the hat trade is declining in many countries). These lack proper shape or homogeneity for fur products but have long, healthy hair. Quality skins have 20 times more value than others. The best skins are regular, intact, homogeneous, dense, wellformed, and flawless. The term “dressing” instead of “tanning” is used for fur. Sorting determines the skin’s future use. ![]() Unsorted rabbit skins can contain both valuable and useless pelts, so sorting and grading should be done as soon as possible. Some summer coats can be homogeneous though, especially in subadult rabbits. The rest of the year, the coat is uneven and the hair is not firmly attached to the skin due to moulting. Winter is the best season for the harvesting of stable and homogeneous adult coats. The thin, unstable coats are really not fur-friendly. At normal slaughtering age of 10 to 12 weeks, they still have a baby coat or are starting the subadult moult. Thus, rabbits are increasingly slaughtered before their coats mature. Raw skin represents a small portion of an animal’s value. Intensive meat-rabbit production is incompatible with quality fur production. The ones that are put to use fall into one of three categories: fur pelts used for clothing, pelts used for shorn hair (hair that has been removed from the skin), and skins that are used as fertiliser. Only a small number of skins are collected from slaughterhouses the rest are discarded. High-quality pelts are sourced from unique strains of rabbits, such as the Rex species. ![]()
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