Is this for a fan mount or a full turkey mount??? If your talking just about a fan mount then I don't see the need to do all that work... I have a wall full of fans and no prob with any of them... All I do is cut my fan off the bird... Spread it out on card board, salt it down real goodand set a few magazines on it to keep in the position I want... After about 2-3 weeks I make my plaque and mount it on my wall
I'm sure if you take the extra time to seperate all the feathers and then hot glue them back to gether you prob get a pretty good mount. But it sure does seem like a lot of work and a lot of mess to go threw... Good luck with you fan