How To Clean A Wild Turkey Fan

But before worrying about your fan mount, take care of the meat. Then just flip over your bird and you are ready to prep it for cooking.

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The tail fan takes some time to get clean.

How to clean a wild turkey fan. This video demonstrates how to fillet the breast of a wild turkey. This will keep the skin on the turkey which will give it more moisture and flavor after you cook it. how to clean a wild turkey:

The next step is to remove the lower legs by cutting around the joint where the feathers meet the scaly part of the leg. You want to remove all of the flesh and fat possible by cutting or scraping with a knife and even using a. will brantley, hunting editor # bugcountry # fsosceolahunt

Lay the tail fan off to the side and finish dressing the bird. Learn how to clean a wild turkey in 5 stepsincluding how to remove its breasts, legs, beard, tail and spurs. After nearly two decades of hunting and killing americas grandest game bird for its bountiful meat, i think ive refined my butchering process pretty danged well.

Cleaning a turkey is a cinch. Once you have the bird cleaned, go back to the fan and start by scraping all of the flesh off the skin and then proceed to the tail. Get the tail fan and spread it out, then hold the secondary tail fans and cut the tail fans out.

You might think you could just toss an animal skull into a pot of boiling water to clean it. While that would indeed remove the fat and flesh, that has several drawbacks. This is a quick, relatively clean, process that in its essence is removing the turkey breast from the birds chest by skinning that portion and cutting the meat out.

The boiling water leaches minerals from the turkey skull mounts, softens them, and it may also turn them yellow. Field & stream has an informative video to show you the steps to properly cleaning the next wild turkey you kill. Skinning provides an easy option.

Besides, a turkey fan has only a small patch of flesh that can spoil. With practice, you can get the breast, legs, and thighs ready for the tableand the beard, spurs, and fan. You should hear some rib bones break.

Your priorities are butchering the bird and cooling its meat. After washing the fan, dry it with a blow dryer on low heat and smooth out the feathers. You can also remove the tail if desired.

First, remove the beard and lower legs, and then cut off the wings, starting at the second wing joint from the body. Cleaning a turkey step 1: Preparation if you have no idea how to clean a turkey, theres very little preparation required.

This video also shows you the best way to cut the turkeys fan off and the proper way to dry the fan. Many folks like to save the entire bird but dont want to pluck it. How to clean a wild turkey.

The tail can be washed in regular dish detergent to remove stains and the feather tracks can be straightened. First things first before you dig in, youll need to get some zippered food storage bags and a knife. Once the backbone is removed, press down on both sides of the bird to flatten it out.

In this tutorial, we learn how to remove a turkey tail fan. This part of mounting a turkey takes very little effort, and its a worthwhile memory to preserve. The traditional way to clean a wild turkey is to pluck the feathers off and then gut the bird.

Theres more than one way to butcher a wild turkey. Place your turkey on a clean table to skin it, which will save it from dirt and debris. Be sure to adjust your cooking time using a recipe for a spatchcocked turkey.

How to clean a turkey part 2 will show you the best way to cut the spurs off the turkey. The initial cut needed is a small incision made to the turkeys skin at the bottom its breast bone. The first step to skinning a wild turkey is to hang it from the head and cut off the wings at the first joint.

The removal should be pretty quick and simple. To preserve it, rub some table salt and borax onto all the exposed flesh and skin (there shouldnt be much left after cleaning it). With practice, you can get the breast, legs, and thighs ready for the tableand the beard, spurs, and fan ready for the wallin just a few minutes.

Before you remove the entrails or field dress the turkey pluck the turkey's feathers to preserve the skin and keep moisture in the turkey while cooking it whole. Place the fan in a refrigerator for a few days or freezer until you are ready to proceed. Then, remove the beard by pulling gently and cutting the loose skin at the base.

To remove the tail fan from the carcass, fold the tailfeathers together and grip them as one unit. Its somewhat independent of the rest of the turkeys body. Cleaning a turkey is a cinch.

Technique also works on geese. You will want to cut at the base of the turkey where the but is, skinning a little bit to get it out. You can also save the giblets (heart, liver, gizzard) from the bird and make a traditional turkey gravy later when you cook it.

Keep paper towels handy to soak up any blood as you go to keep the feathers as clean as you can. This mixture will dry and preserve it, which locks the beard feathers in place. The bone collector havalon rebel knife is a great option for cleaning a wild turkey.

If you have cleaned a turkey before, you also know that feathers have an annoying habit of sticking to the meat.

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