Mount to Mount changes via DBC

[Noodel]

I'm currently looking to change my saber mount to one of those rather colourful chickens of the Blood Elves AKA a Cockatrice.

I know the simple way would be just a simple model to model/texture to texture rename, while i did that first it gives bad camera angles, think old school talbuks.

This leaves me wondering how much i can change via DBC. I have some experience with DBC files and thus far have managed to change the model of the cat into the chicken, however it's a bit green - indicating no textures.

Main question here being, do I have to go through the gruelling task of name swapping cat to chicken in the CreatureDisplayInfo.dbc? or is there a more simple way?

If not, how can I grab the IDs for these creatures to do these changes.

Thanks in advance.