blow dry birds

[fireduck]

I use a hair dryer on my birds. I seen in the catalog these high dollar blowers. Can anyone give me some opinion on these.
I want faster drying times.

[pearsontat]

I have a blower from Authentic Taxidermy Supply and I love it. It works great and dries so much faster than a hair dryer. My time is too valuable to waste all day drying birds with a hair dryer.

[James Parrish]

I gas my birds and use a regular hair dryer on duck sized birds.  The real time savings with the pet dryers is on geese, swans, turkeys, etc.  That is about the only time I use mine.

[drakeman]

Gas and it dries very fast with blow dryer!

[Sea Duck]

I have an Air Force Commander pet dryer, it works fine but I prefer gas and a hair dryer. The one thing I do like about the pet dryer is it's variable speed, goes from almost no air to way more power than I need.

[cast_n_blast]

I use my shop vac with a hair dryer stuck in the intake to get a little warmth, and then touch up with hair dryer, a shop vac is a lot cheaper and then you can use it to clean up your mess when done

[finazducks]

X2 Air force commander pet dryer

[hambone]

I make up a excelsior body approx. the size of the bird with neck in straight out position, I keep several sizes around, place inside the skin and pin it shut, this holds the skin in the right position and the excelsior will soak up some of the fluids inside the skin, this also helps in preventing you from trasferring any fluids from the skin to the feathers, then I place my leaf blower on the counter top turn it on and that leaves both hands free to move the bird around in front of it, works for me Good luck.

[huntin_justin]

got a small shop vac just to dry birds.  works great

[byrdman]

they sell a shop vac with a removable motor to use as a leaf blower.....I have one of those hanging on bench with flex hose.....at end of hose you need to narrow opening down to constrict the air flow...mine is like a 1/4 inch hole.......borax flesh side and shake out excess......blow with your hand inside skin to manipulate plumage......you need to dry feathers and fluff down but keep skin moist and flexible.......and NO heat...that can damage feathers and dry skin too fast.....you want cool air and lots of power.....oh and some gass...ha ha

[fireduck]

thanks all. I do use borax and gas all that. My ducks do fine with the hair dryer, but geese and turkeys seems to take me for ever.

alot of have stated the shop vac deal. Ok. here is a dumb question how do you convert the shop vac to a blower

[Heck]

thanks all. I do use borax and gas all that. My ducks do fine with the hair dryer, but geese and turkeys seems to take me for ever.

alot of have stated the shop vac deal. Ok. here is a dumb question how do you convert the shop vac to a blower

Only works on the larger models with the exhaust port, that can be used for a blower.

[byrdman]

they sell a shop vac with a removable motor that can be used as a leaf blower

[3bears]

visit garage sales, thrift stores and look for old electrolux style vacuum cleaners. Take the hose out and put it in the exhaust port. It works great, better than hair dryer, in my opinion. I use it on every bird from grouse to turkey. 3bears

[fireduck]

Thanks. all