How Clean Are Your Turkey Tail Butts?

A lot of Youtube videos will tell you to remove as much meat as possible and the pile borax or salt on it to dry out the meat and fat. This, in most of the DIY videos, would be the maximum effert and this is why, I don't suggest them.

 

In a few, this is the maximum effort and is probably the maximum effert most taxidermists will do and is more than likely adequate if DP or borax is used.

 

I like to go further. I forgot to take a pic of what further means to me, but, I took a pic after set it in hot glue. I was out of Bondo and hot glue is adequate for what I need to be done. I don't usually use hot glue as it remains slightly flexible, But I'm not doing customer work so hot glue it is.

 

Yes. There is zero fat or meat on the finished product.

I can't believe what those DIY videos are saying and showing. Very little meat removal and almost no fat removal. On some of the cape and wing mounts they remove no meat and fat and just salt or borax heavily. They don't flesh or wash them.

I watched one a while back on wing mounting. They never removed any meat at all from the wing bones and said to salt heavily for a month to dry out the meat on the wing bones.