saving skunk gland
- Thread starter AHelton
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You better have a fan blowing across its butt,and away from you. Do you got a barn to sleep in? You know,you may need a place to sleep in case you get some on you. A wife or family may want to keep you at a 'hollering distance' for a few days. It's well worth $15 an ounce,if your looking for an excuse to stay outdoors. A buddy to help,
would be nice...Give you someone to talk to in the barn.
You can use syringes to remove the mustard,from skunks. Its the best way,if you can find the size you need...Myself,i just cut the scarlet sacks out and sleep in the barn.
would be nice...Give you someone to talk to in the barn.
You can use syringes to remove the mustard,from skunks. Its the best way,if you can find the size you need...Myself,i just cut the scarlet sacks out and sleep in the barn.
Tactical .20
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Wear rubber gloves, like the green chem ones. Draw it out with a syringe, put it into a glass bottle. 15$ sounds good, it used to be 12-10 cash in MT.T.20
Mason
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Alrighty... Here we go...
First you will need a container to put the skunk juice in, of course.
A freezer that you don't mind putting dead animals in, FULL dead animals, not butchered animals. more importantly, skunks.
Skinning set-up with a sharpener and knives etc. I like a rope with loops on the end. Slung over a branch on a tree downwind of the house.
Syringe
Hydrogen Peroxide, Baking Soda, and dishwashing soup (the liquid in a bottle stuff)
Understanding neighbors/significant other.
You need the freezer because you need to collect quite a few skunks because its too much effort for one at a time. Its better to do 10-15 at a time or more if you can. Of course if you are going to do 10-15 at a time its well worth your time to skin them and sell them at a fur sale. Ours at the last sale averaged $2.25 green and $4 stretched. We also like to see the most use out of any animal we harvest. When skinning stay well wide of the glands but other wise it is just a simple case skinning job.
You need the Hydrogen Peroxide/Baking Soda/Dishwashing mix to get rid of the skunk smell. I would suggest stripping down pretty well and washing yourself well afterwards and your clothes in this mixture. If done right it WILL get rid of the smell pretty well.
Getting the stink out is pretty easy... You push the syringe into the gland and extract the fluid, then insert into the container. Repeat. There isn't really a set amount that you will pull outta the skunk. Sometimes the big one with big glands only have a little fluid in them. Kinda feel cheated when that happens.
As far as gathering skunks, trapping is the easiest way. If you only have plain cage traps, secure a blanket around the trap to make it easy to get the skunk. If he can't see you generally he won't spray. Course don't be shaking the cage either. Then just take it to a thing of water deep enough, and slowly submerge and leave for 20 minutes, don't try cutting that short either or get a nasty surprise. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif We bait with a simple $1 thing of off-brand oreos (comes with like 30 cookies) from the dollar store. It won't attract the neighbors kitties (all the time).
Enjoy... I suppose... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Don't blame me please if you piss your wife/significant other/neighbors/etc off. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
$15 an ounce is a pretty good price in my opinion... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
First you will need a container to put the skunk juice in, of course.
A freezer that you don't mind putting dead animals in, FULL dead animals, not butchered animals. more importantly, skunks.
Skinning set-up with a sharpener and knives etc. I like a rope with loops on the end. Slung over a branch on a tree downwind of the house.
Syringe
Hydrogen Peroxide, Baking Soda, and dishwashing soup (the liquid in a bottle stuff)
Understanding neighbors/significant other.
You need the freezer because you need to collect quite a few skunks because its too much effort for one at a time. Its better to do 10-15 at a time or more if you can. Of course if you are going to do 10-15 at a time its well worth your time to skin them and sell them at a fur sale. Ours at the last sale averaged $2.25 green and $4 stretched. We also like to see the most use out of any animal we harvest. When skinning stay well wide of the glands but other wise it is just a simple case skinning job.
You need the Hydrogen Peroxide/Baking Soda/Dishwashing mix to get rid of the skunk smell. I would suggest stripping down pretty well and washing yourself well afterwards and your clothes in this mixture. If done right it WILL get rid of the smell pretty well.
Getting the stink out is pretty easy... You push the syringe into the gland and extract the fluid, then insert into the container. Repeat. There isn't really a set amount that you will pull outta the skunk. Sometimes the big one with big glands only have a little fluid in them. Kinda feel cheated when that happens.
As far as gathering skunks, trapping is the easiest way. If you only have plain cage traps, secure a blanket around the trap to make it easy to get the skunk. If he can't see you generally he won't spray. Course don't be shaking the cage either. Then just take it to a thing of water deep enough, and slowly submerge and leave for 20 minutes, don't try cutting that short either or get a nasty surprise. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif We bait with a simple $1 thing of off-brand oreos (comes with like 30 cookies) from the dollar store. It won't attract the neighbors kitties (all the time).
Enjoy... I suppose... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Don't blame me please if you piss your wife/significant other/neighbors/etc off. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
$15 an ounce is a pretty good price in my opinion... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
AHelton
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lol i dont have a wife /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif,, girlfriend maybe /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
im only fifteen...and what gauge needles do you use....we have 16, 18 and 20 gauges in all lengths that we use on or hogs would any of these work?
im only fifteen...and what gauge needles do you use....we have 16, 18 and 20 gauges in all lengths that we use on or hogs would any of these work?
sweatybetty
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i bought some i think 20 ga syringes that worked ok. i think with a larger i.d. needle it would be easier because of the fat in the glands wont clog the needle.
the first time i did it i cut the glands out and put them in a ziplock bag just in case they squirted when jabbing the needle in. next tine ill drain the glands while skinning maybe before. ive only been brave enough to do 2 so im still learning.
the peroxide, baking soda and dishsoap works really well. another soap that i found to work was some of my wifes "cucumber face soap". killed the smell rigt away. good luck and have fun!
the first time i did it i cut the glands out and put them in a ziplock bag just in case they squirted when jabbing the needle in. next tine ill drain the glands while skinning maybe before. ive only been brave enough to do 2 so im still learning.
the peroxide, baking soda and dishsoap works really well. another soap that i found to work was some of my wifes "cucumber face soap". killed the smell rigt away. good luck and have fun!
call-m-all
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FULL dead animals,
that sounds like a story I like to here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
FULL dead animals,
that sounds like a story I like to here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
trapper0829
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good luck
gary1
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not to take anything from mason /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif, but the site school of trapping has hlped me alot. there's a couple of guys thats into eveything about trapping. i asked them the same question and they hooked me up about a poll with a syringe, how to cut the glands out, how to get the good stuff out, to save it , the works. i learned alot from these guys and reconmmend anyone thats getting started or just interested in trapping to check this site out.
also they help me to understand coyote trappings what to do's and not to do's. got my first one after veiwing that site. they made it alot easier /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif. good luck
also they help me to understand coyote trappings what to do's and not to do's. got my first one after veiwing that site. they made it alot easier /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif. good luck
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grayghost78
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$15/oz sounds like a good price.