Post by daveedka on Mar 31, 2009 0:51:56 GMT -5
Hello all,
I have heard suggestions several times that blowing a turtle up with Air or water will make them easy to clean. The method I've heard the most and pwould be apt to try is to cut their head off and clamp the neck skin to Either an air hose or a garden hose and then slowly and gently inflate the Turtle to full capacity. The rumor is that it pressure will seperate the skin from the meat thus taking away the work of seperating them by hand.
The other method I'[ve heard and will not try is to use a basketball needle to do the same thing to a live turtle, by sticking it through the leg skin and then pumping it up. I tend to prefer that animals do not suffer at my hands, so would go with the first idea if I tried it.
HAve any of you ever actually done this or seen it done to verify that it actually works? I'd really like to know so I don't feel foolish when the time comes to try it.
The last Turtle I skinned was a 20 pounder, and it literally took two men and a boy to dissasemble that brute.
Dave
I have heard suggestions several times that blowing a turtle up with Air or water will make them easy to clean. The method I've heard the most and pwould be apt to try is to cut their head off and clamp the neck skin to Either an air hose or a garden hose and then slowly and gently inflate the Turtle to full capacity. The rumor is that it pressure will seperate the skin from the meat thus taking away the work of seperating them by hand.
The other method I'[ve heard and will not try is to use a basketball needle to do the same thing to a live turtle, by sticking it through the leg skin and then pumping it up. I tend to prefer that animals do not suffer at my hands, so would go with the first idea if I tried it.
HAve any of you ever actually done this or seen it done to verify that it actually works? I'd really like to know so I don't feel foolish when the time comes to try it.
The last Turtle I skinned was a 20 pounder, and it literally took two men and a boy to dissasemble that brute.
Dave
