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Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: trail walker on January 18, 2018, 10:12:23 pm

Title: buggy fox fur?
Post by: trail walker on January 18, 2018, 10:12:23 pm

so i just got a hold of a nice frozen red fox from a friend and it has some bugs on it. what would the native Americans to get them off? I do not want to use chemicals if at all possible. do i just smudge it over a low heat fire or something?

Title: Re: buggy fox fur?
Post by: Zuma on January 19, 2018, 12:35:12 am

Well if the fur or animal is frozen I guess the bugs are dead
and pose no threat to you. Comb or brush them off.
Zuma

Title: Re: buggy fox fur?
Post by: Pat B on January 19, 2018, 07:48:42 am

Wash it with Dawn dish soap. The soap will break the water tension and the bugs will drown. Bugs breath through their skin. Any soap will work, maybe even soap weed.

Title: Re: buggy fox fur?
Post by: trail walker on January 19, 2018, 08:31:49 am

how about yucca? i have some of that.

Title: Re: buggy fox fur?
Post by: Pat B on January 19, 2018, 09:32:06 am

If it suds up and is used for washing then yes.

Title: Re: buggy fox fur?
Post by: Hawkdancer on January 19, 2018, 11:52:22 am

Aren't yucca and soap weed (root) the same? Might try to dust it with borax, then comb it out.
Hawkdancer