Im just toying around with a couple snow geese to mount for myself, Im going to carve my own mold and buy the eyes, and will use borax on them, Just wondering do i need to do anything special to the beak feet and legs to preserve them?
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Greg, The feet get injected with Preservsit or similar product. I would use an artificial head- no worry with bill shrinkage plus anatomy is usually better than rebuilding the skull. It sounds like you don't have any experience at this and that's fine BUT you can save yourself a lot of problems by investing in a video or book on bird mounting. With geese especially, the oil in the skin and bones is a big issue in skin preperation. Fact is the actual mounting of the goose is the easy part while preping the skin is the work and is all important for even a passable mount. Check out some of the suppliers here for teaching materials on taxidermy method. Enjoy, Aaron H.
I am looking for a snow or blue for my firstgoose as gift.
thank you
jeff