Never reuse salt on hides! Any exceptions? 50 deer capes is a lot of salt; how and where do you get rid of it.... local garbage-man... seems like a lot of weight
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Pete if you live in a northern climate then use it on your driveway or sidewalks for ice control. If you live in a non snowy climate and it uis legal use it for a salt lick for deer - place it on an old rotting stump asnd they will love you for it.
Salt is cheap if you get it at a feed store - buy plain mixing salt. Don't scrimp on salt it is probably the cheapest item you will use in taxidermy.
Salt is the cheapest commodity used in taxidermy.
However...I'd reconsider using used-salt for 'salt licks' for Deer and other animals. With all the hair and contamination from hides fleshed...it's a futile attempt to help wildlife to live a better life...most likely will do them more harm than good.
Just my opinion. Animals have the same digestive systems that humans have. Would you serve the used salt at the dinner table to your family?
Northerners have a lot of snow and ice like JEM says above...just use your imagination.
Gotta go with the deer lick suggestion! Been doing it for years!
Works great and after a few rains it's all washed in and the poor lil deer and other crittrs will just have to pick those few stray hairs out of their teeth! Haven't heard a complaint yet! Some of my licks are wallowed out to better than 8 feet square and 24-30 inches deep!
This is a good time of year to start you one, find a good place and give it a try. Don't choose a spot too close to any trees you don't wanna kill.
Best of luck!
Hmm...never looked at my Deer Hoofs that closely before...must have missed those tiny pickin-hair-out-of-their-teeth little fingers between their hoofs...hah.
Next time I polish a set of newly (TAXIDERMY) mounted deer feet...I'd better pick out the hairs first...hate clogging up my burnishing wheel...hah.
"Animals have the same digestive system as humans do"....sure you don't feed your dog garbage...right?
Heck...most hunters' dogs eat better than they do...hah.
Don't use it in salt licks,you are likely to transmitt all kinds of disease ,remember that Salt sucks up the blood from what ever you salted,coons,skunks,foxes are Carriers of the Rabies virus, and I'm not so sure that it will kill the viruses ,althoug it kills a lot of bacterias ,viruses are something else. Who knows what the legal implications would be ,if you start an animal epidemic in your area and it can be proven that it came from your wasted salt.I wouldn't take that chance.I take mine directly to the dump in construction plastic bags.Remenber what happened to the lady forest ranger that started the wildfires in California?
what "not" to do with it.LOL I would just bag it in 20-30LBS bags and fit it in with your weekly garbage pick up. Also I know every one say's_"use alot its cheap" but really If its not used correctly alot goes to waste. If you have a decent salting area that gets some "air" the hides will really dry up alot faster. Getting rid of salt can be a pain,but, if you plan ahead and watch the waste you will find that you won't need as much hence you won't have to through out as much either.
For one ETCC dear do not have the same digestive system as people. They are rumens, thus their food is broken down differently. ever see a person survive on twigs? Secondly. Salt is not only used to dry hides, it aids in the preservation, by killing the bacteria so the chances of animals acquiring decease from licking, or eating used salt are slim. do what you wish wit salt, it is a naturally occurring compound.
Hmm...God must have made you the new biologist for His living Creations.
Deer have a tongue, hearts, lungs, liver, kidneys, digestive track, bowels and rectum. Mess with these innards and you've goit sick and agonizing-dying animals.
Read Alex's post above. Yep...I said "Salt is the cheapest commodity used in Taxidermy"...a necessity...but cheap in cost...so don't be stingy in using it intelligently.
Discard it properly...not by killing some poor animals in a horrible way from the diseased crap you scrape off your hides.
That's why dealers SELL fresh 'Salt Lick's to place on your rural property...for Deer to get the required FREAH SALT into their body.
Dry your Used Dead Carcass Defatting Salt...pour it into your Salt Shakers...and put it on your dinner table. After all...it's 'just salt'.
ETCC you dont have to be a biologist to know that a deer has all the organs you mentioned but they do have rumen which mean they have a four chambered stomach like a cow this means they can eat things and break it down that we couldnt even imagine.I have witness deer tearing at and eating asphalt to get at the salt in that and just imagine the harsh chemicals in asphalt
Well you all have been a lot of help! I think I might just try a little out back for the deer.. sounds good... got a lot of it stored up so i will hit the garbage man up also...thanks
I put mine in water an pour in on my fence line to kill the weeds.
I put used salt on my driveway to kill the grass there- saves the mower blade. Also have a salt lick below my pond for the deer but I don't put the real messy stuff there. And I've got to say that I do reuse some of it. The salt that looks clean I save and use for the first salting next time. I do use clean salt on second or third saltings. The real messy stuff like bear salt and that with lots of blood goes into my trash. -Aaron H.
in your sewer lines? Dilute the salt with water and pour down your sewer lines and you will not have tree root problems again.
Yes, it will help with those tree roots, But if you have a septic system, The salt will harm the bacteria in the tank that breaks down the waste. If you are on city sewer, They will not be happy to have large quantities of salt in their system. and if and when they trace it back to your location, they will fine you.
ETCC Well, First let me start by saying you are about a pompous ass. Or you just don't get it. I did not realize we were discussing the anatomy of Undulates, But because deer have rumens, their food is fermented in the various chambers of their stomach, in stages. the bacteria that lives in their stomach, breaks the food down prior to digestion in their intestinal tract. because salt kills the bacteria in the scraps fleshed off the hide, there would not be introduction of cultured bacteria in salt disposed of from hide drying. thus deer eating such salt stand virtually no risk of bacterial infection from eating it. even Humans with their delicate digestive systems can ingest meat products that have been treated with salt. Ever see a Virginia Ham, Hanging out in the sun. Un-refrigerated for weeks, even months. Yet, it can be eaten. And no one gets ill. Ever wonder Why? Now you know. Because it is soaked in a brine, SALT.
By The way God did not appoint me Biologist, The State of Colorado Did!