cleaning deer skull?
#12
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Central Iowa
Posts: 234
RE: cleaning deer skull?
Skin it, then boil it about four hours, wash the meat off with a hose. Drill another hole into the brain cavity below the spinal cord hole. This makes it so brains will not blow back all over you when you wash them out. If bone parts come loose save them and glue them back on later with plain old Elmer's.
When it is clean it soak a bit in a borax solution, boric acid or just borax soap. You can bleach it a bit too if it is not white enough for you but do not get bleach on the antlers. You want the color there. Borax is deadly to plants, insects, arachnids, and fungus, but is harmless to other animals. You use borax soap to wash your hands after all.
When it is clean it soak a bit in a borax solution, boric acid or just borax soap. You can bleach it a bit too if it is not white enough for you but do not get bleach on the antlers. You want the color there. Borax is deadly to plants, insects, arachnids, and fungus, but is harmless to other animals. You use borax soap to wash your hands after all.
#13
RE: cleaning deer skull?
ORIGINAL: mossbergman11
wat is borax?
wat is borax?
You can usually find it by the laundry detergents at Wal Mart
Be Care-full not to get Boraxo powdered hand soap I don't think that will work.
#14
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Georgia
Posts: 164
RE: cleaning deer skull?
I would not boil the antlers...I have seen many discolored this way. Submerge just enough to cover the skull cap. I have also seen tin foil wrapped around the base of the antlers for additional protection from the "cleaning process".
Might want to check out the the Huntingnet.com taxidermy forum too.
Might want to check out the the Huntingnet.com taxidermy forum too.
#15
RE: cleaning deer skull?
weve been having some real stupid weather here recently like 60 degrees. i dont make sense
Good luck with the skull and get us some pics when your done.