"WINGTIPS" # 38 Potato starch "drying"

[mimes]

Is there a drawback on using this method with waterfowl?

[wingman]

No not at all, I just find it more cost effective to only use on "fluffie" birds. Tumbling waterfowl in corncob grit works well for me and is relatively fast. Just personal preference.

[mn_jimmer]

Thanks again.  I use a similar method with a tub of borax because I don't have a tumbler.  It sounds like the PS works a lot faster to dry the feathers.

[stargazer644]

Thanks again wingman.

[glarsonnd]

Hey wing, can u reuse the ps?

[wingman]

Hey wing, can u reuse the ps?

Glarsonnd The drawer has about an 1 1/2 of PS in the bottom of it, when there isn't enough left to adequately "fluff" a skin then its time to restock, Minimal amounts are lost on every bird when you blow the remaining PS off the plumage, So yes it is "reusable" till you run out. If that makes sense?

[glarsonnd]

wingman thanks for the tip, never tried that yet but will,  Gary

[lee, tees valley]

i use potato starch on every bird   gassed and un gassed   work's very well . i put the spud starch in a strong polythene bag, along with the damp bird skin which i lightly fill  out with cotton wool,, , gather some air in the bag, then pummel  and shake the skin , in the bag for a few minutes, take it out , shake off excess ps back into the bag,  hit  the bird  with the blower   PUFFFF plumage is totaly dry

[Glass eye]

I searched in vain for potato starch. Can't find any. What do DeadHeads use it for ?

[ludvik]

nice tips Eugene.
i use photato stach on all my birds (we dont have  corncob here and i don`t like sawdust) and i dont gass my birds way i not gass my birds is becouse i have a verry small working room and i  be drunk when i blowing the skin and it works well on all birds type
if the photato starch be to much clotted so can you put in a litle plaster in it and it will be some new ;)not much needed

[wingman]

Ludvik, So are you saying that when the PS gets "lumpy" and looking used that you just add a bit of plaster into it? I wonder if putting a few cups of plaster or PS  in with the corn cob grit in my tumbler would assist in getting that fine down entirely dry? I always end up hitting the skin a bit with the hair dryer to fluff that final down up where the PS plumage/down is  almost always entirely dry after fluffing.

[ludvik]

yes Eugene. when the ps be to wet and make it lumpy so ad some plaster and shake it so will it be some new. but not ad to much 

you see it on black birds when you have used ps. it will be a litle white glans in the feders you dont get out. and when you have put in some plaster so will it be a litle bit more  white glans.(not much)
but on all other than black birds so is it verry nice to use ps and ps whit plaster

i dont know how it looks like if you have gassed the bird and then used ps.but think it will looks like the same

try next time when your ps is lumpy and you thinking to trow it so ad some plaster and see