velvet heads

[Treacle Trackpad]

What's the general consensus for mounting heads that have been shot in velvet? Strip and clean as normal then get the potassium permangonate, out or can they be mounted in velvet? I presume there would be a smell attached to the latter

 

[Bill Bartlett]

What's the general consensus for mounting heads that have been shot in velvet? Strip and clean as normal then get the potassium permangonate, out or can they be mounted in velvet? I presume there would be a smell attached to the latter

Velvet heads can be mounted just as you say, though the potassium permanganate, does not look natural on its own. Or you can treat the velvet. Pic of a Roe buck in velvet that I recently mounted .

 

[Treacle Trackpad]

Thanks for through reply, nice mount by the way. How would I go about treating the velvet?

 

[Bill Bartlett]

velvet antlers

Thanks for through reply, nice mount by the way. How would I go about treating the velvet?

You can rub Borax into the velvet or use a preservative from Snowdonia taxidermy Services, which you can inject if still soft or saturate the antlers with it. Formalin subsitute (safer) will all work.

 

[375 mag]

formaldahide injected or left to soak into the velvet i believe works although ive not done it myself but used to do pigeons for decoying with it !!!