King Cluck part 2

I know you are all waiting on the edge of your seats to see how King Cluck is doing! We forgot to check on him after a week, and didn't get around to changing him till about a week and a half after we started. I think part of me made myself forget because I was scared that I would open up the bag and we would all pass out from the smell. So we brought it down and all held our breath. I think I was the first one to breath, and was happy that all I could smell was the rubbing alcohol. So we took him out (ok ok there was no WE, it was ALL me, the kids were not touching him, no matter what!) and brushed him off.

 I asked the kids if they wanted to don a glove and tough him but they all said no. I couldn't get either of our ABA therapists to touch him either. In fact I am pretty sure Mrs. J would of been in the other room in I had not made her take pictures! She is having mixed feelings between being amazed by this and freaked out. LOL  He is definitely getting tougher feeling. The breast is the softest part on him, but still does not give much when you push on him, and his winds are pretty dried out already. I can't wait to see what he looks and feels like next time.

We then mixed up another mixture of salt and baking soda and covered him all over again. There he will sit for another couple of weeks. (Yeah, yeah, I know it should be checked in one week but it has already been over a week since we did the first check.) I have kinda checked him and the mixture does not look that we so I have not been in a huge rush.

King Cluck

Meet King Cluck.

He will soon be mummified. We are studying Mummies and what better way then to mummify something. Of course when I told The Hubby we were mummifying a  chicken he thought I meant some bacon wrapped chicken for dinner. Imagine his surprise when he came home to a blob on the fridge. LOL You can see above the items we used. We chose a Cornish Game Hen since it is smaller and will take less time and materials.

We used the rubbing alcohol to wash the hen off and kill the germs and hopefully lower the smell level.  Here you can see Monkey prepping King Cluck for his bath. Cat boy was going to bath him but even with the gloves he decided mom should do it.

Next we mixed 2 parts salt to 2 parts baking soda. We will check King Cluck every few days and replace this mixture whenever it starts to get wet. We used 4C salt and 2C baking soda. I think it was a tad much for our little hen but not by much. I think we might make a HUGE batch next time and then just use what we need each time we change it out.

Here is Monkey helping me load up the cavity with the mixture. We made sure he was nice and full and then both him and Cat Boy made sure the bottom of the bag and all of King Cluck was covered.

Here is King Cluck all covered. He will sit in the back for the next month or 2 on top of my fridge. When the mixture gets wet we will take him down, Clean him off and re-cover him. Of course I will blog that as well. For now I just hope he does not stink.