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June 17, 2014
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When doing a resting mount with the head of the duck tucked down close to the body, do you use a shorter neck material or do you use the actual length of the neck and just bend it down?
Here is an example on this link. Not sure how to show picture in the thread.
WEBFOOT3, welcome to Taxidermy Talk. I am sure some of the bird guys will be happy to answer your question.
February 2, 2013
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Use the same length neck the bird had, but make sure to make a relief cut between the shoulders of the maniquin and between the jowls of the artifical head. It will also make it easier to position the head and neck by using a 14 gauge copper wire for the neck wire. Hope this helps.
What Ryan said. No matter what, always use the same length as the live bird. Copper wire or annealed wire allows the bends to stay where you put them. Galvanized wire has a memory that springs back out of place. Remember this, there is always an S shape to a birds neck. For the picture showed, the neck bends down from the spine between the shoulders, curves forward and up at the chest line folding back on itself. Then starts curving back towards the head going in between the jowls. The neck doesn’t protrude from the back of the head in this pose. But it is still attached at the back of the head. The relief cut allows it to bend between the jowls.
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