Big River Taxidermy

22/02/2024

Another giant here at Big River Taxidermy

31/12/2023

HappyNew Years Eve!!

May the last day of the year bring new goals, fresh starts, and lots of laughter🤣

Have a SUPER day, have FUN 🥳, be safe & I'll see ya next year 🥰

08/12/2023

04/12/2023

Wanted good mature whitetail buck capes please call 563 538 3840

23/11/2023

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃😊

Have a fantastic day!!!!

We're thankful for you all!!!

What are you thankful for?

22/11/2023

Here's mine:
I stuff my turkey with a new recipe and it is delicious.

What's yours?

27/11/2022

Lol 😂😂
This is to funny not to share!!

24/11/2022

Happy Thanksgiving to all our Awesome customers and friends!!
May you day be filled with great company, laughter and of course PIE🥧

18/11/2022

Hey all you Wisconsin deer hunters......
Good luck and please be SAFE!!!!

For any taxidermy assistance you can call.....

Gabe with 3 Rivers at
608-606-4318
OR
Jeff with Big River Taxidermy at 563-538-3840

30/06/2022

Haven't seen him around in a while! But finally, the other day he was seen!!

Even so he sure is a beautiful deer!!!

Don't you agree?

27/06/2022

Well, here's something for you guys who have some old jaw bones laying around!!
I'm sure the kids would have some FUN!!!

23/06/2022

Throwback Thursday
Jeff at work in 2019

20/06/2022

Do you know anyone who needs a new necklace?

17/06/2022

Well, isn't he just cute?
Any takers?

15/06/2022

Well would you just look at that?

Their coming out of the walls in a restaurant in Alaska.

Crazy, huh?? Are you ready for that on the wall?

06/06/2022

Public Safety Announcement

Save a life!!!

02/06/2022

Now we all know that you want your trophy room to look like this!!!! LOL

29/04/2022

WOW!!!!
A Pennsylvania cake decorator created an amazing life-sized deer cake!!

Cake Decorating Supervisor Pam McNeal created the cake from scratch at the Shady Maple Farm Market in East Earl, Lancaster County.

Everything except the antlers were made from scratch, according to officials from the farmers’ market.

The bride and groom asked Shady Maple Farm Market to design the cake around the antlers.

I don't know of any wedding cakes like that around here, do you?

25/04/2022

When you wake up after a big Saturday night...

Anyone ever feel like this? LOL

21/04/2022

Long post alert but well worth it!!!!

I laughed the whole time I read this. Here's your sign...
DEER HUNTERS.
(A letter from someone who wants to remain anonymous, who farms, writes well and actually tried this)
I had this idea that I could rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it. The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.
I filled the cattle feeder then hid down at the end with my rope. The cattle, having seen the roping thing before, stayed well back. They were not having any of it. After about 20 minutes, my deer showed up-- 3 of them. I picked out a likely looking one, stepped out from the end of the feeder, and threw my rope. The deer just stood there and stared at me. I wrapped the rope around my waist and twisted the end so I would have a good hold.
The deer still just stood and stared at me, but you could tell it was mildly concerned about the whole rope situation. I took a step towards it, it took a step away. I put a little tension on the rope, and then received an education. The first thing that I learned is that, while a deer may just stand there looking at you funny while you rope it, they are spurred to action when you start pulling on that rope.
That deer EXPLODED. The second thing I learned is that pound for pound, a deer is a LOT stronger than a cow or a c**t. A cow or a c**t in that weight range I could fight down with a rope and with some dignity. A deer-- no Chance. That thing ran and bucked and twisted and pulled. There was no controlling it and certainly no getting close to it. As it je**ed me off my feet and started dragging me across the ground, it occurred to me that having a deer on a rope was not nearly as good an idea as I had originally imagined. The only upside is that they do not have as much stamina as many other animals.
A brief 10 minutes later, it was tired and not nearly as quick to jerk me off my feet and drag me when I managed to get up. It took me a few minutes to realize this, since I was mostly blinded by the blood flowing out of the big gash in my head. At that point, I had lost my taste for corn-fed venison. I just wanted to get that devil creature off the end of that rope.
I figured if I just let it go with the rope hanging around its neck, it would likely die slow and painfully somewhere. At the time, there was no love at all between me and that deer. At that moment, I hated the thing, and I would venture a guess that the feeling was mutual. Despite the gash in my head and the several large knots where I had cleverly arrested the deer's momentum by bracing my head against various large rocks as it dragged me across the ground, I could still think clearly enough to recognize that there was a small chance that I shared some tiny amount of responsibility for the situation we were in. I didn't want the deer to have to suffer a slow death, so I managed to get it lined back up in between my truck and the feeder - a little trap I had set before hand...kind of like a squeeze chute. I got it to back in there and I started moving up so I could get my rope back.
Did you know that deer bite? They do! I never in a million years would have thought that a deer would bite somebody, so I was very surprised when ..... I reached up there to grab that rope and the deer grabbed hold of my wrist. Now, when a deer bites you, it is not like being bit by a horse where they just bite you and slide off to then let go. A deer bites you and shakes its head--almost like a big dog. They bite HARD and it hurts.
The proper thing to do when a deer bites you is probably to freeze and draw back slowly. I tried screaming and shaking instead. My method was ineffective.
It seems like the deer was biting and shaking for several minutes, but it was likely only several seconds. I, being smarter than a deer (though you may be questioning that claim by now), tricked it. While I kept it busy tearing the tendons out of my right arm, I reached up with my left hand and pulled that rope loose.
That was when I got my final lesson in deer behavior for the day.
Deer will strike at you with their front feet. They rear right up on their back feet and strike right about head and shoulder level, and their hooves are surprisingly sharp... I learned a long time ago that, when an animal -like a horse --strikes at you with their hooves and you can't get away easily, the best thing to do is try to make a loud noise and make an aggressive move towards the animal. This will usually cause them to back down a bit so you can escape.
This was not a horse. This was a deer, so obviously, such trickery would not work. In the course of a millisecond, I devised a different strategy. I screamed like a woman and tried to turn and run. The reason I had always been told NOT to try to turn and run from a horse that paws at you is that there is a good chance that it will hit you in the back of the head. Deer may not be so different from horses after all, besides being twice as strong and 3 times as evil, because the second I turned to run, it hit me right in the back of the head and knocked me down.
Now, when a deer paws at you and knocks you down, it does not immediately leave. I suspect it does not recognize that the danger has passed. What they do instead is paw your back and jump up and down on you while you are laying there crying like a little girl and covering your head.
I finally managed to crawl under the truck and the deer went away. So now I know why when people go deer hunting they bring a rifle with a scope......to sort of even the odds!!
All these events are true so help me God...An Educated Farmer

17/04/2022

We want to wish all of our customers, past, present and future a Happy Easter 🐇

15/04/2022

We want to wish all our customers a Happy Good Friday!!

08/04/2022

When you ask to go to McDonalds but your Mom drives past because there's food at home....😂🤣🤣😂

05/04/2022

Check Mate!!!
Anyone want a chess set like this?

14/01/2022

Fishies

01/01/2022

Happy New Year!!

31/12/2021

Happy New Year's Eve to all of our most AWESOME customers!!
We appreciate each and every one of you!!
May your evening be FUN but safe!!

22/12/2021

Let's see how many locations we can get a 'Merry Christmas' from!!!
We'll start: MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅🤶 from Lansing, Iowa