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« on: February 07, 2012, 06:21:34 PM »
 i was just wondering what everyone thought about fabric softner when doing bird taxidermy. is it necessary or do you get just as good results washing with regular dawn and water. thanks.
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« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2012, 07:47:55 PM »
just stay with dawn and make shore you flesh good.
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« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2012, 10:04:51 PM »
i have tryed the fabric softner before and couldnt really tell any benifits to it. i just use dawn a water. some others i talk to have used it and like it so try it out and see what you think
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« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2012, 10:22:32 PM »
i have tried it on several birds and it seems like the neck and head area get greasy looking during the mounting process. I wash with soap and water very good so i didn't know if it was from the gas i soak the skin in or if it was from the softener. 
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« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2012, 10:46:26 PM »
Dawn and rinse well.
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« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2012, 11:45:03 PM »
go with the dawn it is the best have never even heard of fabric softer for birds have used the cheep stuff and that does not work as well just my opinion
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« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2012, 09:31:18 AM »
I've had better results using fabric softener after dawn than just using dawn.
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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2012, 09:53:43 AM »
I use Downy fabric softener after washing with dawn with excellent results.   Birds smell good too!  Smiley
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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2012, 10:56:35 AM »
so do you then soak your bird in your solvent right after using the fabric softner?
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« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2012, 11:24:46 AM »
Dawn, rinse a time or two, fabric softener and let it soak for a few, agitate the skin working the feather patterns, then rinse, rinse rinse.  I don't always use gas.  But, you could.  As DWC said, the bird has a pleasant smell.
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2012, 02:48:01 PM »
Quote from: dnimmer91 on February 08, 2012, 10:56:35 AM
so do you then soak your bird in your solvent right after using the fabric softner?
You can put bird in Coleman right after but I don't.  I stopped using gas about a year ago.  After the wire wheel I wash the skin in dawn 3-4 times and rinse.  I then fill the lid of the downy bottle about 1/2 full of fabric softener to about 1 gallon of warm water and aggitate for a few minutes and then let the skin soak for about 10 minutes then rinse, rinse and rinse some more. Roll up in a towel to remove excess water and then blow dry.  Birds fluff up beautiful as long as you dry good.  Doesn't matter what you use if you don't rinse good and dry good.  Make sure you get the down feathers dry also.
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« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2012, 06:45:25 AM »
http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,71316.0.html
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