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Goat glove update part 2

Goat glove final updateI made the mistake of using my goat gloves during our recent round of chicken feather plucking.

This material isn't bouncing back like leather.

I suspect the chicken dunking is what caused them to dry up in such a stiff manner.



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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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Those gloves need some loving care. Oil those babies up. If you had a rough day like that, you'd need a massage too.
Comment by Titus — Tue Jun 22 13:35:01 2010
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Try cleaning them with saddle soap. That will soften them and make them more pliable but they may be stretched already from the water. One can only hope. No saddle soap/ Try a bit(little bit) of glycerine. Don't use ANY vegetable oils.
Comment by vester — Tue Jun 22 16:15:00 2010
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You both have such good points! I don't know why we never figured out oiling/soaping leather gloves. It makes perfect sense!
Comment by anna — Wed Jun 23 08:10:01 2010
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