I have rabbits I raise for meat, and desperately need to learn to tan the furs properly. I have a couple of methods I want to try out, but thought I'd ask around for any advice that folks here have. On other forums I've seen people mentioning everything from dish soap to hydrogen peroxide to tan furs, but nobody gave much detail as to their methods. I'm seeking a detailed description of something simple I can do with materials I can find or make.

Farmers here uses to fill the skin with straw and leave it this way for a day or two.
By the way we have some threads on tanning here, check the Weapon's Index, section "Other primitive skills" 
Greetings,
Mauro.

Well, thank you for the information, Dave!
I hope everything goes well with your tanning, and keep us informed: I'll add this topic to the index!
Greetings,
Mauro.

nice... How to catch rabbits easily? i could use a little extra cash

yes. ive heard that, and my biology teacher already gives me the old dry bones of some of the classes experiments... and i might start skinning the groundhog thats right outside- it got run over by a semi, and the forsenics class is doing a investigation on it. anyway, how hard is it to skin an animal with a scapel? thats all my bio teacher has?(and a saw)

Ghost, your method seems really simple. Maybe I made all this more complicated than it needs to be in my imagination. I'm going to try that along with budzbunny's hydrogen peroxide tanning and the method from the article. I keep having to put off butchering. I thought I was all ready for winter, till it snowed. I'll take some pics.

@squirrelslinger- Ghost is right- Thats a great tool for the job. I only use a knife to start the job- just cut through the skin around each of the back legs at the ankle, then cut a slit along the inside of each back leg, past the anus under the tail. Cut one more slit around the front of the sex organs. Then, with the animal hanging by one or both back legs, peel back enough skin to get ahold of and just pull off the skin like a sweater. It will be inside out, and usually it tears at the ankle on the front legs, but you might have to cut it if not. If the head is not to damaged, you can skin right up to the ears, then cut the cartilage of the ears and keep going right up to the nose. With the young rabbits I raise for meat the skin comes off easily with little fat, but larger or older animals might require a little more cutting. I'd just use the scalpel to cut only the trouble spots, and something like a tongue depressor to slip between the flesh and skin to do most of the skinning. I like to skin this way because I end up with less fur on the meat, but if the meat is not a concern you could do it differently. Good luck.

Side note- I saw rabbit skins at hobby lobby the other day selling for $11.95 apiece, and these were kind of stiff, bloodstained and a little smelly. I'm sure I could do better, and those prices might make it worth selling some. What I really want is a traditional paiute rabbit skin blanket. The tanned skins are cut in a spiral pattern so you end up with a strip of furred skin maybe 1 1/2" wide and as long as possible. This is then wrapped fur side out around some stronger string stretched onto a loom, and more of the same "rabbit yarn" is woven through the warp to bake a blanket. I believe the traditional ones were skinned and cut so that the eye-holes were at the ends to be used to join one piece to the next, and the ears were left on. Supposed to be real warm, but I've heard that they shed a lot.

Hmmmm...... but about having animal skin in my locker?
not gonna work....

Hmmmm..... it might just work. My bio teacher is probably wierd enough that none of the other teachers will question it.