Keep in mind that feathers usually have some blood in the main quill. Friend of mine tells a story of sorting turkey feathers one night while watching TV and suddenly realizing the quills had maggots in them. I imagine (but don't really know) that freezing them would dry the blood.
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Once a host is dead the parasites will jump ship and abandon the host in search of a new food source. Once the bird or mammal is dead most should be long one by the time you get the tails etc home.
They are there to feed mostly on blood and thus not a harm to other tying materials.
Freezing is more for moth and beetle (dermestid) infestation once the material has been cured.
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I hunt a lot and keep many random materials for tying. Personally I just put stuff some salt or any taxidermy chemicals i have on the skin side. the most common one i use for taxidermy is borax. But salt seems to do the trick, i just have an abundance of the borax laying around. hope this helps--On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Steve F <spfbeaver@gmail.com> wrote:To echo TB's comments in another thread,I have friends with a few hunting trips planned and I'd like them save me some tying materials! Not sure what they hunt as of yet but I would assume duck/pheseant/turkey etc. What should be done to preserve the materials? I've heard of freezing to kill parasites and TB said something about borax for the skins. Any links or suggestions?--
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