1. Selection of pheasants
The selected pheasant must be full of feathers, and its wing feathers and tail feathers must not be damaged or broken, with beautiful posture and normal beak and feet.
2. Specimen making
(1) Skin peeling. After the pheasant is slaughtered and bled, the mouth and anus are stuffed with cotton to prevent blood, saliva and feces from polluting feathers. First, separate the trunk: cut the skin in the middle of the pheasant sternum, and be careful not to damage the crop; Peel off the skin and crop, pull out the trachea and esophagus from the neck, then cut off the trachea and esophagus behind the crop and take it out of the body; Cut off the cervical vertebra and gently pull out the cervical vertebra; The skin of the trunk is separated from the shoulder joint, and the shoulder joint is cut off, so that the wings are separated from the trunk; Then peel back the knee joint and cut it off, leaving no muscle in the tibia; When splitting the tail, don't peel off the tail feather; Cut off the coccyx and rectum, cut off the fat gland of the tail, completely separate the skin from the trunk, and take out the trunk; Then, peel off the skin on the wings and gently push the skin down at the ulna until the wrist joint, so that the ulna can support the muscles; Finally, the skin of the head is peeled off, and the skin of the head is reversed from the atlanto-occipital joint, and the muscles of the skull are separated from the face, paying special attention to the skin separation at the ear and the orbit, and finally reaching the base of the beak. When you peel your eyes, cut them off first, then peel them off, dig out the eyeballs, remove the muscles of your head, take out your tongue and hyoid bone, and remove the brain marrow.
(2) Treating skin and skeletal skin ectropion, removing the fat and connective tissue remaining on the skin, and then applying camphor and talcum powder. For the residual bone, it can be treated with 10% formaldehyde: after the tiny bone has its periosteum scraped off, it is coated with cotton to absorb formaldehyde several times; Thick bones need to be drilled and formaldehyde injected into them.
(3) making a support for supporting the trunk and neck: bending the iron wire into an ellipse slightly smaller than the pheasant carcass, interweaving the two iron wires at the front end into a twist shape with the length equal to that of the neck, and inserting them from the neck to the head, with the ends bifurcated and stuck in the cranial cavity and plugged with cotton. Fabrication of hind limb support: Insert two iron wires upward from the toe bottom incision, leaving 5 cm at the end, and connect and fix the top with the body support. There must be more than five fixing points, and the length of iron wire should be adapted to the length of hind limbs, and the residual bone should be fixed with iron wire. Fabrication of the biplane bracket: Use a steel wire with two ends extending from the shoulder to both ends of the biplane, leaving about 3 cm of skin on each side, firmly connecting the steel wire with the trunk bracket into a whole, and fixing the remaining bones with steel wire. Manufacture of tail feather bracket: a metal wire is wound and fixed on the back of trunk bracket, with both ends bifurcated upward and inserted into both sides of coccyx for fixation.
(4) joint filling. Put the prepared skeleton into the skinless goose skin, and fix one end of the iron wire in the body axis direction on the skull and the other end on the coccyx. Then use mildew-free, dry and clean cotton, shavings, old threads and other materials to fill the pheasant's body (sprinkle some insect-killing and mildew-proof drugs such as camphor powder and borneol before filling), sew with threads, and finally arrange the chest feathers to cover the suture site and install artificial eyes.
(5) Shaping and coloring: firstly, adjust the angle of the hind limb joints to make the pheasant specimen stand or run normally, then adjust the posture of its wings, open or naturally fold the wings to both sides when standing, cut off the iron wire with one end sticking out of the skin, then adjust the posture of the head and neck, and finally wrap the specimen tightly with gauze and put it in a ventilated and dry place to dry in the shade. After the specimen is dried in the shade, it needs to be colored, that is, the crown, wattle, earlobe, shin and toe are coated with oil painting pigment, and its color must be consistent with the appearance color of the pheasant variety. After the pigment is dried, it is coated with a layer of oil or varnish to make the feathers more colorful.