HELP in preserving pheasant tails

shooter4

Got a couple of trophy cockbird tails hunting today.

Want to preserve them so the meat stays good and keeps the feathers on good and doesn't rot and stink up the place.

What is the best method?

Right now I got them sitting in a plastic bag with Kosher salt covering the meaty sections.

FrancF

Sounds good to me, I recall a friend doing that a long time ago. The meat end was keeped in salt to dehydrate it. Think it took a few weeks, but unsure. However you mite want to let air get to it so the moisture can escape.

oldgunner

That will probably work. Only thing I can think of that might be better is Borax. It's a cleaning powder similar to Tide, but is used by taxidermists for curing.

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HUNT WALKERS

A friend of mine uses them for Thanksgiving decoration. I beleive he uses a mixture of salt and borax.

headzilla97

i use salt for all my turkey tail fans ya want to use the un iodized kind


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pickenup

Taxidermy friend of mine said to use borax.
I have dozens of full pelts, never had one go bad.

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