1,025. Salting a Hide on Yom Tov

Shvisas Yom Tov 3:4

When one skins an animal hide on yom tov, he may not salt it because salting is one of the activities involved in the tanning process. To salt the hide would be to perform an act of labor that is not necessary in the preparation of food. One is permitted, however, to lay the hide in a place where people will walk on it, which will serve to preserve the hide. This leniency was granted for the sake of yom tov joy, so that people will not refrain from slaughtering animals out of concern that the hides will go to waste. One is permitted to salt meat on the hide that will be roasted. One may act disingenuously in this matter, salting a little until the entire hide is salted.

Shvisas Yom Tov 3:5

The rule that one may act disingenuously in salting the hide only applies when salting the meat for roasting, where only a little salt is needed. If one is salting the meat for cooking (which requires much more salt), one may not do so on the hide. Similarly, one may not salt the fats, turn them over or spread them on poles in the wind because they are unfit for eating.