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Good job ...your hooked for life until you have to skin a couple dozen in a day .. Stinky little buggers ...
When I worked at a fur processor we would sometimes get slammed and not have enough time to flesh/prep/salt the animals we bought. In that event we would skin them, roll them up flesh side in so they made a ball. Then wrap them up tight with saran wrap until you could not see the fur through the saran. We would load freezers full of coons/cats/beaver etc. in this manner then when the season slowed down we would pull them out the night before and work them the following day when thawed. Did this many of times and never had a slippage/dry rot issue. Just make sure you skin them out in a timely fashion if you plan on freezing them this way, same day preferred.
No, sounds like you dried it so you should be just fine. If you were talking about leaving it in for 6 months then maybe you would see some freezer burn around the nose, eyes and lips. For a week or so no worries, just make sure you let it fully thaw before you go tugging on it so you don't rip out hair that is frozen to itself. Little critters are nice cause they don't take as long to thaw, carcass cougars on the other hand take days...
Almost, its always best to skin them either the day you catch them or the next, wether you have stretchers or not, if you want come on over and I will teach you how to make stretchers so you dont have to waist money buying them, thus leaving more money for traps or trap making material, and remember when you catch a beaver save the candies hang them on a wire and dry them, once driedyou grind and mix with glycerine that way you dont gotta buy beaver lure...
