Hides, Skins & Pelts
- Wet Blue Cattle Hides
- Salted Calf Skins
- Pickled Sheep Pelts
- Pickled Lamb Pelts
- Salted Sheep Skins and Lamb Skins
- Pickled Deer Skins
- Salted Goat Skins
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Salted Sheep Skins & Lamb Skins
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Woolly (unshorn) lambskins are selected from late October through to March mainly to service the production of decorative and bedding rugs, medical rugs, car seat covers and double face garments. Shorn lambskins are selected from February through November while Sheep skins are selected all year round
Merino sheep and lamb skins are selected in small numbers generally from December through February and are used mainly for footwear lining. Following slaughter skins are cooled under controlled conditions for transportation to one of our processing sites. |
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Skins are carefully checked for temperature compliance upon arrival and individually fed into the processing area on conveyors. After classification by trained graders skins are placed in processing vessels and processed through to salted skins. The salted skins are counted and packed for distribution to customers.
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Wool Lengths |
| WS Woolly Lambskins | A B C Infant Care FM |
2" - 4½" 2" - 4½" 2" - 4½" 1½" - 4½" All lengths in |
| WS Sheepskins | FM 3rd |
Under 1" 1" - 3" Over 3" All lengths in |
| WS Shorn Lambskins | FM 3rd |
Under 1" 1" - 2" 2" - 3" Over 3" All lengths in |
| WS Merino Sheep and Lamb Skins | Run 3rd |
0" - ½" ½" - 1" Over 1" Under ½" Over ½" |
Brands |
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Tomoana: Tomoana Pelt Processors, Hastings, Hawkes Bay - North Island Christchurch: Graeme Lowe Christchurch, Canterbury - South Island Fairton: Silver Fern Farms, Fairton, South Canterbury - South Island Pareora: Silver Fern Farms, Pareora, South Canterbury - South Island Finegand: Silver Fern Farms, Balclutha, South Otaga - South Island Blue Sky: Blue Sky Meats, Invercargill, Southland - South Island |
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