[rasorbackqq]

 

[3macs1]

Your work looks great Nice Job How are the pigs doing any huge ones like in the past

 

[TonyM]

Do you need a special permit to mount an owl?

 

[rasorbackqq]

Your work looks great Nice Job How are the pigs doing any huge ones like in the past

Yes 4 breeders but no hanging pork . 16 in total.11 over 125 lbs. Freezers getting low on pork and beef. Lots of chicken to eat.

 

[rasorbackqq]

Do you need a special permit to mount an owl?

Yes its a salvage permit . Free from DNR if its a roadkill. Have had accidental trap catches and will not give a permit for those. Stopped for 4-5 bird of prey over last year but they are hit to hard. Seems a few are in same area . Barred owls are very common here in NS.

 

[rasorbackqq]

Missed out on an osprey on 103 couple years ago. Was out in sun and heat just too long Skin was all slimy so I chucked it back in ditch.

 

[3macs1]

Yes 4 breeders but no hanging pork . 16 in total.11 over 125 lbs. Freezers getting low on pork and beef. Lots of chicken to eat.

Cool look forward every year to your weather predictions take care

 

[rasorbackqq]

Killed 4 other pigs and butchered for a client. I didn't look. Didn't think I had any followers..
Oh I did ......said it would be [email protected]@ing cold Feb 3-5 .. Next pig I will forecast.
As I said my pork in low and 16 huddled outside. Looks like a spring pig harvest and get some summer forecasts in .

 

[TonyM]

Yes its a salvage permit . Free from DNR if its a roadkill. Have had accidental trap catches and will not give a permit for those. Stopped for 4-5 bird of prey over last year but they are hit to hard. Seems a few are in same area . Barred owls are very common here in NS.

Thanks!

 

[3macs1]

Just to add IMHO keep those permits in a safe place as I found out some years after as long as you have the mount. I had a few owls and hawks done over the years and had to wait for them to inspect to make sure not shot but no problem to get a permit But had one die in the yard a few years ago a white snow owl and they came and took it and no way would they give me a permit no idea why All of mine were road kills and some should not have been done iMO this one was the grill of my 85 dodge in red islands and pretty ugly but was a mess the other not so bad plus some of them Yes rasorback Joe also collected and hoarded taxidermy in one of my lives and we would have been best friends and I would have taken a bit of work to you

 

[rasorbackqq]

My bird mounts are not the best but most times they are not the best specimens to start with . You come off a windshield at 100 kms Bound to be some feathers missing and broken bones.

 

[3macs1]

My bird mounts are not the best but most times they are not the best specimens to start with . You come off a windshield at 100 kms Bound to be some feathers missing and broken bones.

For sure 90% of mine were done with the freeze dried?? method and james gardin?? in sackville did the rest the other normal way but he was a bird and fish man IMO and loved doing those
Cheers

 

[rasorbackqq]

So client dropped off this small yote a couple months ago. Roadkill .
This has been a challenge since the start. Way to small for any commercial mount. So I did the next best thing bought a extra large fox form in a pose client liked. Poncing fox.
Fox form was 3 " shorter and 2" smaller in the chest. Good starting point to modify a form bigger I thought. Well it gets here and I wasnt thinking the legs would be shorter and feet smaller The eye to nose measurement was close and needed to adjust the body length NO WAY

So back to old fashion way of doing taxidermy . Make a body from an old box spring material.

Just happened to find this wrapped body from who knows when . Was the right length and just needed some added to get to proper size.

Next the head. Needed some high density form. A ha an extra pheasant body was the right size. Shape and cut and sand and shave til I got this.

But there was something wrong with it . The eyes holes didn't match up.
Start over how. While looking at a chart on what angles yote eyes are set to and I remember this from 30 years ago.A yote open mouth shoulder mount form I have bought .

Cut the jaw off spray foamed it together and cut off

That as far as I got today.
Need to look around for some 1/4 threaded rods for the back legs to attach to a base.
Stay tuned!!!!!

 

[TrueGrit]

Lots of work once you see behind the curtain....

 

[rasorbackqq]

Couldn't stop working on it.

 

[rasorbackqq]

 

[rasorbackqq]

Out the door with the pine plaque

 

[3macs1]

Nice work

 

[rasorbackqq]

Finally after 3 weeks I caught a red squirrel , now I can finish the owl mount. Oh BTW it was full of fleas all a sleep. As soon as the squirrels thawed it was panic time.

Insert wire to attach to tree. So it goes through body and U shaped and pulled back in to attach to tree

All skinned and powder tanned. Never found squirrels and weasel sized stuff needed to be tanned over 9 days. Hides to paper thin.
Powder drys the flesh and the small bits of membrane left .

After 3 days the ears are starting to dry and feet getting less movable. Time to attach to the mount.

Now back to the yote . All mounted waiting for the snow to arrive for the habitat

 

[greybeard]

excellent work as always rasorback