WING"TIPS" #2 Excelsior wrapped necks

[JP a.k.a Taxi-lover]

Don't be sorry Ludvik..I think these pages are for criticising our work,not our spellings!! I 've seen lot's of people here speaking actually english as motherlanguage and not spelling so well at all!! Forget it and keep up the good work!!

Best wishes: Another not english speaking (how is my spelling )

[M.T.]

My Bad,  sorry! 

[Nancy C]

I won't worry about spelling, especially from our members who are not speaking their native language. I hate to think what might happen if I attempted to post something in Norwegian.

I would like to make a comment, though.

I had a rare opportunity a number of years ago. A client had a mallard that he knew he wanted to have mounted, so he handled it very carefully and then put it in the freezer as soon as he got home.
One problem.
He didn't realize that it wasn't completely dead!!!
The bird regained consciousness at some point, huddled down, finally died - and then froze solid in an absolutely perfect low-head position.

I skinned it without moving the neck at all because I wanted to see what was going on inside. As you might expect, the neck was settled all the way down inside the clavicle so that it appeared a lot shorter than usual.
What you might NOT expect, though, was to find the mostly full crop deflected around so much that it was actually resting on TOP of the neck. It was settled down inside the hollow of the first "S" curve. (Coming around from the right side, of course.)
Seeing that arrangement explained a lot of things to me. No wonder that living ducks don't have any problem with their skin bunching up in that area! That area isn't vacant on a living duck! It also explained why, when I mounted low-head positioned ducks with the crop suspended below the neck, they all looked too "busty" to me, like those big, fat domestic ducks.

I don't have any photos of this discovery, although I made a lot of sketches at the time. (It was before digital cameras became common.)
I'm really not making it up, though. Try it the next time you mount a low-head positioned duck and see what you think. It has worked extremely well for me.

[George Roof]

OIC, YIB, MR ducks!  LOL  Nancy, that's great info.  Thank you for sharing it.  'splains a lot of things now.

[ludvik]

thank you taxi lover and nancy(to eksplane it for me )

IKKE GREIT Å VÆRE FRA NORGE OG SKRIVE SÅ DÅRLIG ENGELSK.  hope it helps you mr?( i just joke)

in norway we don`t have any site like this and this site helps me mutch.
i`m just a beginner and do taxidermy just as a  hobby for my friends .i do it when i waiting for the hunting season.

thx wingman for your tips!! can`t wait for the next tips from you

[BeckyBird]

Wow Nancy, what a neat story! I will have to try that with the next sitting duck (this month, I've had only flying birds! Can't wait to do a nice resting one)

[Fooshman]

I won't worry about spelling, especially from our members who are not speaking their native language. I hate to think what might happen if I attempted to post something in Norwegian.

I would like to make a comment, though.

I had a rare opportunity a number of years ago. A client had a mallard that he knew he wanted to have mounted, so he handled it very carefully and then put it in the freezer as soon as he got home.
One problem.
He didn't realize that it wasn't completely dead!!!
The bird regained consciousness at some point, huddled down, finally died - and then froze solid in an absolutely perfect low-head position.

I skinned it without moving the neck at all because I wanted to see what was going on inside. As you might expect, the neck was settled all the way down inside the clavicle so that it appeared a lot shorter than usual.
What you might NOT expect, though, was to find the mostly full crop deflected around so much that it was actually resting on TOP of the neck. It was settled down inside the hollow of the first "S" curve. (Coming around from the right side, of course.)
Seeing that arrangement explained a lot of things to me. No wonder that living ducks don't have any problem with their skin bunching up in that area! That area isn't vacant on a living duck! It also explained why, when I mounted low-head positioned ducks with the crop suspended below the neck, they all looked too "busty" to me, like those big, fat domestic ducks.

I don't have any photos of this discovery, although I made a lot of sketches at the time. (It was before digital cameras became common.)
I'm really not making it up, though. Try it the next time you mount a low-head positioned duck and see what you think. It has worked extremely well for me.

Can you post up some of the sketches?