Re: chicken bones and emu tracks

["Andrew Walters" <andreww@farallon.com>]

Emus are ranched commercially for their skin (gloves), oil, and meat in
Texas, California, and who knows where else.  A quick search on the web
ought to turn up a phone number you could call; those ranches should have
plenty of footprints around.

I'll look forward to someone's response to the chicken question.  I think
it involves a lot of boiling, followed by varnishing.  Don't know what
you're going to do about those little bitty foot bones...

Andrew Walters
andreww@farallon.com


>Sorry about the topic, but here goes:
>
>First, I would like to know how to clean and prepare chicken bones from the
>basic fryer so that they can be assembled into a mounted skeleton, one that
>won't attract flies and vermin.  Have any list members attempted this?
>What are the pros and cons of bleaching?  I am entertaining the idea of
>preparing such a mount in order to compare and contrast the skeleton of
>_Gallus_ with that of a non-avian theropod.
>
>Second, does anyone know how I might obtain an emu footprint?
>
>Thanks!
>
>-- Ralph Miller III     gbabcock@best.com
>