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As a taxidermist, I can tell you there is no need to wash a goat hide.  The hair on a goat is not hollow like a sheep and therefore blood will not stain it.  If you get a goat hide wet it will become waterlogged and VERY heavy. (Esp a lifesize cape)Not much fun to haul back out of camp.

Bring about 1-2lb salt per cape.  THis will be minimal for coverage - do the faces first - then the rest of the cape.Visit a taxidermist and have them show you the correct way to skin a goat.  

As for meat care; If you can - bring several heavy duty black plastic garbage bags, place your meat (already in meat sakcks) in these and then submerse in water. Change the cloth meat bags every other day or at least drain any blood out of the garbage bag that accumulates at the bottom. Obviously you have to have a cold water source to use this method ;).  

You can store in the cloth meat bags and lay on top of brush as you described if there is no water/lake.

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