Maceration problems

[blindluck]

Thanks for the responses everyone, michelle i pulled the eyes and jaw. it looks like your skull in one of your posts where you scrambled the brains and dumped them out on the bucket. I have had it in between 85-88 deg checking with thermometer. Meat is still tight but water is nasty and smelly seems like it should be working. Today is day 9 and I will dump 1/4 of the water and add new hot water. I think I'm just going to stay on it till it works. Have you ever had an issue with it not working. Thanks much.

[washelkhunter]

If your boiling you are making a nice stock.

[Michelle_Nelson]

Never had that problem blindluck. 

[Pathfinder101]

4.  When Macerating it really stinks.  I got tired if having my customers smelling that when they came over.

Mich!!  This is the first time I have ever heard you admit this!!

She usually says something like "awww.... it ain't that bad...."   

[Michelle_Nelson]

It's not bad.  My customers say it stinks.

[Skyvalhunter]

Of coarse it doesn't stink to her she has Vicks vapor rub in her nostrils!!

[PolarBear]

Don't knock it until you've tried it!    I have had to put Vick's in my nose before when skinning out 6 buffalo heads that had been sitting in black garbage bags for over a month.    

[Pathfinder101]

CoryTDF did an elk skull for a buddy of ours once.  Said he'd do it, then forgot about it for about 2 weeks.  I went up to elk camp and retrieved the head.  You could barely go near my truck. He gagged 6 times just cutting the head off the hide.  I dropped by a couple of hours later to see how things were going and he had that head in a green maggot stew.  I asked him how the hell he did it, he showed me a half empty jar of Vicks Vaporub...  

[Michelle_Nelson]

I've never needed Vick's.  I just don't have a weak stomach when it comes to maggots and rotten meat.

[Pathfinder101]

In Ocean's Thirteen I think they called that "Nose deaf"...

[jackmaster]

Yes Michelle definitely knows the process but even she has given up on this method, and now sends her skulls off to a guy who cleans them with beetles.

:yeah:the only way to go, and it is so clean it almost looks fake. i beleive there is a guy in orting that has beetles 

[blindluck]

I've been reading on taxidermy.net about maceration and people are saying it can take a month or longer to macerate with their experiences, so maybe there is hope for me. I also here people get er done in a week or two so who knows, I got the time so I'm gonna lee her brew.

[PolarBear]

The bull that I am doing right now took 2 weeks to be completely meat free.  Just remember that after a week you might have to take it out of the water and pick or shake off any huge hunks that are left, then the following week it should eat away the rest.  If you are having big, grey hunks after 2 weeks, take it out and they should practically fall off.

[blindluck]

PolarBear, I pulled the deer head out yesterday that has been macerating for 10 days and the meat is still tight nothing coming off so i'm going to let it brew and change out some of the water every 5 days till it works.

[PolarBear]

Try letting is brew for a little longer without changing the water, at least until you see it really working..