Chicken mummy help needed

[strider]

Okay, we are trying the great chicken mummy experiment. However, ours is actually a Cornish game hen. :o

We did all the washing and packing in salt/baking soda/baking powder yesterday.

I just checked the chicken mummy, and it doesn't feel wet to me. Yet the workbook says it probably will??? There are small chunks in the white powder--I *feel* like they must indicate moisture, but they break up when I pinch them lightly. Nothing feels wet, and all that's left on my finger from digging around is a chalky, dusty white residue that is dry.

Also I didn't dig very deep into the bag. I just checked the top. Am I supposed to unpack the bag to check it?

If I do discover wetness, do I replace ALL the salt mixture, or just pick out wet chunks and re-use the rest?

Thanks.

[mcconnellboys]

This is a lot smaller than a chicken, so should have a lot less moisture. I would change it on the second or third day and depending upon how wet you find it then, maybe again in another 3 days and then you'll probably be good to go for a while. Good idea! We're getting out what will be our seven year old mummy next year and wrapping and entombing it, LOL.....

Regena

[Jenstet]

I did this with the kids at the beginning of the year and this is how I screwed up...
We had the cornish game hens too, two of them. I have to admit the first week I was good about changing the mix but then I got lazy and quite frankly it just grossed me out. I changed the mix twice over the next few weeks. When it came time to wrap them it seemed fine. After wrapping and over the next few days things started to smell funky and we had to throw them out.

My advice, change the whole mix everyday for a week and then every week to ten days until done dehydrating. Even if the mix looks dry I would brush the bird off and replace the whole batch.