I've got a friend who wants me to find out a price on having his 250# "Boar Goat" (at least I think that's what he called it - a domestic goat) shoulder mounted. The thing is still kicking and will be in good shape. (BTW, I only do fish so I'm clueless.) I suspect there aren't too many forms out there for this specie. So I'm thinking that it might be more work than he's willing to pay (I guestimated between $300 and $400 bucks and he cringed) But I told him I'd find out. Anybody know what's involved and approximate cost? (Fyi, in my area deerheads run about that much.)
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that would be "boer" goat ....
If he cringed at what you told him, he'd have a coronary if I told him. Domestic goats and sheep start a $650 and only go up. They're nasty, stinking, greasy globs of snot to work with and if you don't find maggots in the hair and wool, you're at an advantage already. Even after it's tanned, it's going to smell like a damned goat so I'd suggest that you have it commercially done with a reputable tannery (there goes your profit margin). You're still likely to have to wash it in Downey and spray it with Febreeze to keep from gagging. This is going to be a welcome to the industry like few you've had before. Good luck.
I have done a few domestic sheep and goats call me @ 337-215-1718.
Rob
so NEGATIVE about every thing you must be a nasty,stinking, greasy glob of goat snot yourself
I'm POSITIVE I've done a goat or two in my time and I'm POSITIVE that I've experienced every one of those things in a goat. I'm POSITIVE that a goat skin cannot be treated like a regular hide and it must have special procedures to remove the lanolin from the hair to eliminate the long term odor problem. I'm POSITIVEthat a goat takes MUCH more effort to mount than any whitetail or mule deer I've even done and I'm POSITIVE that the charges should be commensurate to the task at hand. I'm also POSITIVE that you, Bob, are another one of those left nuts who really has no gripe except that I actually bothered to tell the truth in something. If you have a cross to bear with me personally, I've provided a valid email address on every thread I make. You're more than welcome to confront me like an adult instead of a sniveling coward. I'm POSITIVE I won't ever hear from you either.
I would hate to be a goat the way you described one, and Im sure most taxidermist who have never done one wont want to after your Negative discription. Your so opinionated it would make a goat puke.Every thing you do is gold, someone else tries something and you down the procedure. There is more than one way to skin a cat, and I have used Krowtan with great success BOB
That was good for a chuckle right before bed - thanks folks for the "stinkin" info!
You can use a spanish goat and alter as required.
lol, george, i love doing wild goats. Each to thier own i guess.
Yeah the billys stink some but it goes away after you treat it.
They dont leave my place with any smell. And i dont use febreeze.
I did use it a few times but i felt it left a residue on the hair.
Yet to come across maggots in the actual hair though - phew!
Living in Hawaii, we have wild spanish goats on public land that are hunted in one form or another year around. So I see more goats than deer on any given year. True the biggest old billies stink like a goat should. They pee on themselves purposefully to get the girls. But I've never had maggots on any and the smell is either removed 100% or damn near. To me, with the exception of having to rot out horns, they are actually easier than deer because they aren't as delicate looking an animal. Their features aren't refined and they have manes that make hiding stitching real easy. The skin is already thin in almost all areas so they require very little shaving. The hair holds up better on "questionable" capes than deer do. Want a laugh George... I charge LESS for goat mounts than I do deer! I'm familiar with the boer goat features and if I were to do one I'd go with the catalina goat mannikin by McKenzie. It has that fat roman nose look like a boer. It's almost a corsican ram face. They dont work well on our spanish goats.
I was referring more to game farm SHEEP with the maggots as I don't recall finding them on goats either. Your truly wild goats are a different breed from this game farm crap most of us see here and I'd bet you do get some great specimen. Usually the lanolin takes a special formula to remove it completely and since I'd never use any alum (read Krotann) tan on any mount, I usually send them out to be professionally done. I guess I'm not surprised that you'd charge less for yours as that seems to be your primary species there, but for those of us on the mainland, goats and sheep usually relate directly to game farms (and NOT the big spreads of Texas) where the fences are always within arrow shot. These animals just ALWAYS have extra stench because of their confinements and living with multiple species. Some of these guys chirping about how easy they are to do need to come to the northeast to the "Pick-a-Pet" and "Skeet Goat" "game preserves" we get these animals from. They'd change their story pretty quickly.
I took in a game farm cutie like mentioned above. Skinned and salted sent to the tannery....When it came back it still stunk....I had it wet tanned and put it in the freezer, where it stunk up the freezer. Meanwhile, I had to rot the horns, then soak them up in a mild bleach solution to kill the smell, then a mild soap solution to kill the bleach smell. Then mount it up, so it stunk up my hands, and it stunk on the form as well.....Well I did the first one for $450.00...The next one was $600.00. Live and learn.....
Hugh
it will probabley cost you about 600.00 dollars unless you get some one you know to do it for cheaper