I would like that leave a suggestion..
Currently, it's very hard to actually farm the furs/hides dropped on a large kill. It has been mentioned in GC that harvesting time is too big, that cotters/skinners should be able to carry more items with them, etc.
Well, besides those approaches, can i suggest that the cotters/skinners from the same player (but different towns) don't bump each other off?
So, we would have a lot of different solutions to solve the issue. We could either:
a) increase the number of cotters held by a single cottage (ie: upgrade cottage to lvl 20) (less time to gather the hides = more time to try to gather the furs)
b) decrease the time it takes to actually harvest hides/furs
c) make cotters/skinners carry more goods
d) enable equipping them (with a horse, to move faster, or carry more goods)
e) cotters/skinners of same player, but different cities don't bump each other off