SC - Modern sanitary concerns... bah ;)

[Tara Sersen]

I have a question for ya'll.  I am working on a bid for the feast for
next summer's Landsknecht Musterung.  I wanted to do some showy dish. 
I've run across mention of peacocks redressed in their skins a couple of
times, and I think I saw mention of the same for pheasants and swans
elsewhere.  I would love to try something like this, but it brings up
the problem of, well, not poisoning everyone in the hall.  (Well, there
are a few... oh, never mind ;)  Has anyone tried this?  Does anyone know
how to treat the skins to get rid of the creepy-crawlies both on the
inside and the outside?

I discussed it with a friend.  Liberal application of salt is the
obvious choice for the microscopic buggers on the inside, but cleaning
the outside without either destroying the feathers or making them fall
out seems a bit more difficult.  Both steaming and boiling would
logically destroy the feathers or make them fall out.  Bleaching seems
like an option, since chlorine evaporates very quickly and thus wouldn't
be a poison danger, but I think that would ruin the feathers too.  Any
other ideas?

Thank you :)
Magdalena vander Brugghe
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Tara

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nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda.
- -Catullus
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