By extremes I'm talking about going down to the bare quills and separating them all like you show with obviously a tremendous amount of time and scraping. You stated: "Yes I charge for my services, and the pics I posted are a good example of the difference between paying to have it professionally done, and doing it yourself." Funny, but you can't see how I did the cleanup on mine and I'll bet money it will last just as long as your expensive job! Maybe a few taxidermists that aren't busy have the time to do what you're showing, but the way I stated and the way the various videos I watched, a number incidentally that were done by taxidermists, do not go to those extremes. I have never had any odors, lice, bugs of any type, etc., so you do it your way and most of the rest of us will do it as I mentioned and be happy with our "dirty ratty" fans! Yep, it's lucky for you and others that some people can hardly figure out how a zipper works and need high priced pros to do things for them that are really pretty simple and economical to do yourself. Have a good day Sir!