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Hey there fellow Bone Collectors!
It's been a minute since we actually posted something informational about the hobby, and
jesie was having a little trouble fleshing some bones, particularly stubborn flesh like pawpads and lip flesh.
Tips!
- When cleaning bones always use a fresh x-acto blade or another type of hand-held blade.
- Peroxide eats away at tissue, this won't help with silver-skin, the rubbery collagen tissue that connects muscle to bone.
- STUDY BUTCHERY! You can use the same techniques in the kitchen when it comes to this macabre hobby. Here's 2 helpful videos fro out friends at the Food Network, lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcbueO7bBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbc1aW5C1W0 (this one's long, skip to about 5:00)
- Implement nature! If you have any ant hills in your yard place the bones on an ant hill, cover it with a little soil and let the ants handle it. Just be sure to cover the entire hill so no scavengers take your carcass.
- Slow cook, NOT BOIL, bones once the meat is cooked and cooled it will be soft and easier to pull off, it will also rot quicker, so you can feed the meat to ants, flies, or other decomposers.
These are just a few tips I thought up while sitting here, if anyone else has any hints or tricks we'll expand to this. If you have any questions feel free to ask!
It's been a minute since we actually posted something informational about the hobby, and
jesie was having a little trouble fleshing some bones, particularly stubborn flesh like pawpads and lip flesh.Tips!
- When cleaning bones always use a fresh x-acto blade or another type of hand-held blade.
- Peroxide eats away at tissue, this won't help with silver-skin, the rubbery collagen tissue that connects muscle to bone.
- STUDY BUTCHERY! You can use the same techniques in the kitchen when it comes to this macabre hobby. Here's 2 helpful videos fro out friends at the Food Network, lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcbueO7bBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbc1aW5C1W0 (this one's long, skip to about 5:00)
- Implement nature! If you have any ant hills in your yard place the bones on an ant hill, cover it with a little soil and let the ants handle it. Just be sure to cover the entire hill so no scavengers take your carcass.
- Slow cook, NOT BOIL, bones once the meat is cooked and cooled it will be soft and easier to pull off, it will also rot quicker, so you can feed the meat to ants, flies, or other decomposers.
These are just a few tips I thought up while sitting here, if anyone else has any hints or tricks we'll expand to this. If you have any questions feel free to ask!
Also you don't need to set in On the mound, near it will do. But do make sure you cover it. I place heavy stones over the pot I use to make sure nothing carts it off.
Dermisteds all the way. They love everything! =3The only down side is getting them out of the nasal passages.....
I have some of that! =O Thanks! I have been using dental tools and tiny tiny tweezers, LOL.Maceration has drawbacks like corpse wax and it takes longer to degrease, but it's very easy so I'm going with it until I can get a dermestid colony going.
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