Plastinated specimens make significant and quick references for the understanding of Gross Anatomy. The birds were collected from the Institute of Poultry Production and Management, Nandanam, Chennai. The birds were sacrificed in humane method and are fixed in Keiserling I solution and the body cavity was dissected to show the visceral organs in situ. Dehydration was done by a number of changes in acetone followed by xylene. The air drying of the specimen in the following step permits substitution of xylene by air. The dissected surface is treated with polyester resin followed by curing with a mixture of resin and catalyst. The completely cured specimens are labeled and the labels are again coated with resin catalyst mixture, so as to make the labels permanent. Thus, the resulting specimens become a three dimensional model of original which do not require wet preservation.
