thawing

I wouldn't suggest thawing anything in liquid. If your mount was properly cared for in the field, it should thaw ok. You need to salt it before anything else because it pulls all the liquid from the skin to help set the hair. You can never go wrong using salt, and plenty of it...salt is cheap, capes are not...hope that helped.

 

I have put frozen capes and mammals skins in the pickle, but the capes and skins were all fleshed, turned and split, I do not salt the skins unless I am going to store for awhile, I will even store carcasses of small mammals in the pickle for months for lack of freezer space if needed, your (acid pickle is not your normal liquid LOL.) I have never thawed whole heads or none prepped or fleshed skins in the pickle. The biggest issue from my experience is you would have a very dirty pickle, tell me why would you want to thaw heads in the pickle,to thaw faster or what?

 

Hard pickle, this aint like hard cider.

Hang the head and thaw the darn thing, do some research in the beginners and look back a couple months there 30 or so posy about thawing.

 

Despite the others yes i throw them in the safty acid some times,, cats and yots fox you name it . I got my advise from one of the best at McKinzie and i have never ever had a problem. now that being said i supose ill take a whippen from team taxi.net but what the heck.. try a throwing something you dont care that much about in and thaw it. JUST be smart and nutrlize it before you skin and salt the thing for at least 24 hours with clean salt . keep your PH at 1.5 or just lower all the time , i get way to meany cats and yots to do to have them sitting around sticking up my shop. ok guys have at it mark c

 

oh and by the way I ALWAYS use nitro glove if i put them in the pickle to thaw .. mark c

 

I have never dunked frozen or fresh animals into the pickle ever. There is no need to.

 

mr. friendly its hot 98 deg the 4 cats i got dont thaw the same and there is no control over slipage / so i do that becuase i was instructed to and even thow we live miles apart the temp differance is a problem . when i get cats i get a bunch at one time and i only have so meany hours in a day to get my work done .. so i use that method. queston ? what dose a pickle do to a skin? set the hair and start the tanning prosess? so i do respect your methods and ive herd what you have said and yes mr friendly we have been friends for a long time . im just saying it works for me . mark c

 

I don't care what you do mark c, you got a refrigerator? Put the cats in there. You must have a dirty pickle, or go through a lot of pickle acid.

 

"Dipping, Hard pickles"...There's a joke in there somewhere...

 

laugh all you want make as meany joks as you can and at the end od the day i still will do it anything that allows me to speed up my operation and dosent cause me much money works from me . i took in 4 cats thur, and 3 more today and in 60 days or less ill collect 550.00- 650.00 each safty acid cost squat in the skeem of things and if i spent 35.00 and made that much i get to laugh my main tank of pickle is 60 gal the taw tank is only 12 gal and you bet i do them all from squarrls to bears at home all of them are done by my doughter and me .we turn the dollars when oboma ant lookin smile it will make you feel better and last but not least dont be so cheep it cost you money in the end ps... my frig is for water and beer only thank old friend mark c

 

I still dont care.

 

Well, lol I salt all my skins for 24 hours before they even see a pickle.

 

now the truth i salt after for 24 hours