Cleaning a Skull in a Flower Pot (NO SMELL!)
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Yes, you really can clean a skull in a flower pot, and there is no smell! I will show you just what you need to clean a skull by burying it in a flower pot right on your front porch!
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Great video! I've always been a cold water macerator and after all these years the stink still kills me. Someday will have beetles but until then, I'll be a flower pot skull cleaning kinda guy.
Earth worms won't help really but red worms do. Carrion beetles and flies and maggots are the best though! You can get this job done in about 3 weeks if you leave it partially exposed so bugs can get to it
Na, never seen it done in less then a month when buried
@@stevencrow5462 My hamster has been buried a year and he's nowhere near to being bones
Super useful! I just moved from a large yard-block to a little suburban place, and this really helps answer my questions about how I'm gonna clean skulls in this new environment. Adaptation! You rule, man.
I have never been so happy to be so grossed out. See I want to carve skulls. Been watching your videos. I even subbed. Yesterday I thought. I need to learn how to clean these things.
You have helped me to learn of places to get skulls at.
I kind of know how to use a dremel. But, it is not my strong point.
I want to know about using beetles to clean skulls.
I am from the city. We do have butcher shops. Even thought about going to parks with my dog for bone hunting. I do not want to use Maceration. I have no problem with getting dirty. Just bad smells, that I do not like.
I have a small bone collection. With a Raccoon skull as my pride and joy. Just upping my game by having carved skulls. That would be sweet.
Haha nice! Very cool to hear :) Yeah the flower pot could definitely work for where you are.
Im currently getting into it. My first was a deer and i was proud how easily i got the head off... originally i tried sawing but that wasnt working for me... just trying diff tools.. im in the process of getting it ready to let it decompose
Love bone art. In FL snakes are commonly hit by cars and I use this same method. Have also done on bunny, shark, squirrel, and fox. Great video.
This is a fantastic idea! It's basically maceration in dirt.
if you want better drainage which could potentially reduce the corpse wax use potting soil, top soil isn’t meant to be used in pots but it does good enough so people still use it
Good to know, thanks Av!
This is really cool!! I did not know you could do this! 😍
There was a serial killer in Canada who did this. Bruce macaurther
Great idea for the city dwelling hunter! I usually just find a fire ant hill , so they’re worth something.
Haha yeah that works too :D
I just potted a whole fox like this.
Was gonna skin it but a whole day in a warm car in a plastic bag made it, well.... wet with very smelly body fluids & I was short on time before my bf found out I am using our flower pots as a cemetary.
Hopefully the skin will decompose good enough if I leave it for 1 year.
Living in southern Sweden.
Good job! I may have to try this
Thanks Rob! You should give it a try :)
Looks like I'm going to use this trick once a pet snake passes away. I really want to keep and reconstruct the skeleton, but with just burying it in the woods I worry about losing the bones. Still got a good few years before I have a dead snake on my hands but hey! No harm in being prepared.
Another option is water bucket maceration. Bacteria in the water will eat away flesh just like in dirt. It stinks to high heaven for a while and the bones will dis articulate, but you can strain the water when you change it out. If you use the right material (like window screen) all the bones will be separated from the water, then its a matter of assembling the 300 pc puzzle!
Also, if you go the dirt route in a flower pot, you can separate the bones from the dirt by screen washing. Paleontologists do this all the time and the bones they work with are usually much more fragile. You pile the dirt on a large screen then take a garden hose and start gently washing the dirt through the screen. Just like with the water bucket, objects bigger than the screen (bones) will not wash away. And again, you'll have a 300 pc puzzle to put together!
Can I use a skull with the skin still on or use an entire animal such as a squirrel? I love collecting I don't think I can skin an animal just yet! And would you suggest to flip the skull over in thirty days so the underside and tongue would also decompose? I don't have a proper respirator either and I don't want to mess with that as much as I can!
The answer to both those questions is simply to leave it in longer. Skin takes a lot longer to decompose but it will just as long as the dirt stays wet. And as far as the tongue I just pulled that one out to early, it will all decompose given enough time. Hope that helps Elsbeth!
Thank you so much! It does! I am good at forgetting things anyways, I can use that to my advantage!
@@usskullhunter hey im leaving the skin on the face.. i found the body easy to skin but the head not so much im new i dont want to damage. Also i decided to leave the tongue in as i assumed it help with bugs wanting it.
Should i take it out?
Yoooo that looks amazing my man!
Thanks! :)
Can you reuse the dirt? Or do you need to discard it? I look forward to more videos.
Absolutely. Burying animals/parts below crops for fertilization actually goes all the way to the Native Americans :)
Thank you very much! So useful to me!
You bet Umbalaba! Thanks for watching :)
Im having an issue with skin on the head.. its road kill and i managed to get the head off in the end easier then i expected. i know it works better if the skin is removed but this is new to me, i dont want to damage it and i also dont have the right tools yet and i had to give back the inly sharp knife i had.
Thank you so much for these skull videos they really helped and i've subscribed. Xx🖤💀💋
I know it's way later but I had issues skinning too, so my process is:
1. Grab a friend (it's way easier to pull without damaging if you have two sets of hands)
2. Without cutting the head off, skin the body in a way so that most of the hide is intact (process is up to you) OR if you're solely after the head, to make things easy you can simply cut a circle around the hide just above the shoulders
3. Have one person grab the hide, and the other grab the haunches of the animal (or whatever works best as a handhold)
4. Pull!
The hide should peel off the body from the bottom up, leaving the face last, but I find this method far easier than skinning the face itself. Some hide may remain (I often end up with noses or whiskers on my rabbits where the hide broke before it could peel off) but I just nip those bits with my hands or ease them off with a blade since they're so small.
Hope this helps!
Awesome and insightful videos.
I have a dead raven I'm wanting to harvest the bones, would you have an idea on timing i should leave it in the pot for?
This is so great to know and I will be trying this out
Awesome! Let me know how it goes Noel :)
Would you reuse the soil for another skulls or is it better to chance the soil every time?
And would dirt from the garden do the same?
Love your videos by the way
Yes, you can reuse the soil. Thanks for watching!
this is genius
Thanks! :)
Very cool, will have to try this method. Have you ever tried the black garbage bag method? It works very fast in warm weather but the smell, OMG the smell...
Haha lol yeah I want to do a video on this way too but can't till I move to a different house lol
Do you have a video on like bone cage cleaning method?
Im going to have to try this!!
Do it Chelsea! :D
This is awesome. I found two deer skulls in the winter; now that it's spring the skin in leathery and really hard. One skull still has fur, an ear and softer skin on him. Should I cut as much off before I put them in their pots? Also, can I use dry leaves instead of sawdust, or perhaps even eggshells (I have a lot of those for the garden)? I intend on planting flowers on top like you did. Any advice for this woodland treasure hunter? Thank you so much - great video! :)
Hey Emersyn! That's awesome! Yes, as much as you can removing the skin is best. I would opt for eggshells instead of leaves. I think leaves can be really acidic which would hinder bacteria
@@usskullhunter Thanks for the reply and advice! It's very much appreciated :)
What a great way to clean a skull. Just a couple of quick questions what sort of liquid drains out of the bottom of the pot ? If you left it in longer would it be totally cleaned out except for the grease and staining? I have 2 buffalo skulls from the 2 we raised from calves and more than a few years ago I just wired them to a fence through a winter of rain and snow here on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The crows had their go at them and the weather did the rest. They have their horns on them so just about impossible to find anything large enough to bury them in, not that I knew about this method. Their size also made it impossible to bleach to white, though I am rather fond of the rustic look of the au natural colouration. Since finding your videos I think I am just about ready to take them off the wall and start designing a pattern to carve. I just dabble with carving smaller bone pieces though even that I have not done for a couple years. You have inspired me to pick it up again and for that I am eternally grateful. Continued success to you I look forward to seeing more . Thanks.
There was some whitish color liquid but hardly any and did not have a bad smell. Yes, if you left it longer it would be more clean. That is really great to hear! Feel free to shoot me a message on Facebook or Instagram if you have any questions! (Side note, if you are the one who called and left me a message I am really sorry for the delay in returning your call!)
Awesome video, I am crossing my fingers
Haha thanks Dale!
Good video thank for the experience.
Could you make an beetle skull cleaning video?
Thanks Sined! I will add it to my video to-do list!
@@usskullhunter Yes please do that. It is on my list of things to know about.
Will this method work with smaller skulls as well? I have some tiny critters in my freezer until spring because I had no idea what to do with them but i want to start working with deceased animals. This video is super helpful
My dwarf hamster has been buried for a year and he's nowhere near being bones yet so who knows!
Awesome video! Question, a neighbourhood cat recently gifted me a dead rat, which I decided to do this for the first time. I made the mistake of filling with paper litter around the body instead of layering with soil like 01:30. I had a thick layer of soil on top and bottom, just the whole middle is paper litter. Would this still work well? It's been 4 days and still no smell, so I can't wait to check after 2 months
its been two months, hows it goin?
Actually it works well! There's no smell throughout, the only drawback is that the paper litter is now a thick moist mush which makes retrieving the bones harder compared to soil. Rat bones are tiny as well so I'm taking my time to sift through the litter.
Wouldn't it be easy to lose teeth or cartilage in a setup like this? Also with small animals it would be hard to find all small bones and vertebrae I guess.
It's possible yes. This is the more safer way though if you are going to bury a skull as things are a lot easier to find opposed to searching somewhere in the woods.
I was wondering, does the pot has to have some holes at the bottom? Thank you!
I’m planning to do this for small things like mice and rats. When summer comes, can I re use the soil?
Sweet! Yes, the nutrients are very good for gardening.
Saludos
Hola Danna! Gracias para mirar :)
When trying to purchase "saw dust" at the pet store, would it be aspen or pine shavings?
I think pine would work good.
What strength peroxide do you use ?
Could you bury a deer skull with antlers the same way? Obviously most of the antlers would stick out. But would the dirt damage or discolor parts of the antlers under the dirt? If so it there a way to protect against that?
So yes you can. I have seen plenty of people to do it, but there is a slight chance depending on the soil that they could get stained. Probably the best thing would be to wrap the bases with saran wrap and electrical tape.
If you were to let the skull sit and decomp a little longer would the waxy bits be less present?
Not necessarily. Many of the bog mummies they find still have this wax on them!
Edmund Kemper did almost the same thing in his mothers garden, and everyone freaked out.
lol
How long would it take for a rat, small bird, or even bigger birds take?
Could it stay in a pot over winter?
I just buried a gator head twenty one days ago, it’s been really warm in West Georgia. How much longer should I wait to pull it?
@@groverbundy899 thanks! I actually pulled it up last week and there was some scales and insects I washed off and now it’s sitting to dry there was a fly or two perching on it so I’m just waiting for it to ripen before bringing it in :D
How long would this take for something bigger like a hog skull or something?
If one doesn't have sawdust, could you use cat litter? 🤔
Question: I found a coyote corpse in the desert and took home the head. I think it had been dead for a long time. The skin is dried on there (even still has an ear), doesn't seem like there is any soft tissue left. Would burying it be the way to clean it? Or should I just try cleaning the hide off by hand? Also, this is the first time I'm trying to clean a skull.
So for something like that burying would work. I would highly suggest though you give maceration a try for the skull. It will clean it up really nicely!
@@usskullhunter Okay, thank you!!
I've doing lots of skulls now since i commented. I'm doing masceration also... wish i cpuld ask certain questions... Google isant so great for my particular questions.
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I notice the skull has "frayed edges" around the eye holes/orbits. Is this normal? What causes it?
Hey Conner! So yes it is normal and I believe it is simply calcification of the bone. I do not know exactly what causes it though.
How much time it will take to decompose snake burried in soil
Something like probably 2-3 months
Wouldn’t dermestid beetles be easier?
Depends on who you ask :) They are a lot of work to contain and maintain
How bad does the soil discolor antlers?
Honestly not much. you can keep the antlers above the ground for the most part as well.
skulls? Don't hunt how would one get skulls??
Well, roadkill is one option.
Will this work with birds? I mean I don’t see why it wouldn’t I’m just curious.
Yes it should. Just make sure the birds are legal :)
Yeah I was thinking I’d try it on doves once their season starts. Thanks for replying!
Please look for dead specimens and not go out of your way to purposely kill them just to acquire their bones, unless you plan to eat the flesh.
@@TheCryptCrawler of course, my dad is a hunter and we eat what he brings home i was just looking to use as much of the animal as possible and have it live on
hi! i have a bat skull i want to clean. will it smell if i bury it in a flowerpot on my windowsill?
Hey! Something that small I highly doubt any smell will be detected.
@@usskullhunter i buried it and it doesn't smell, thank you, great video btw
Do you have to skin the animal?
You don't have too but it will help in the decomposition.
What flowers are those?
They are Portulacas.
Give me a skull! Lol
lol I will be giving away lots more!
Now I can put bodies parts in my pots.....jk
Just kidding
Why don't you just boil it?
You have to be very careful when boiling skulls. Especially if youre doing detail work on it. Boiling it is a delicate process, one i don't prefer but it can easily soften and crack the teeth and bone.
@@JgoKrazyy ah, thanks boo
Boiling can also lock grease into the bone, meaning degreasing takes longer and is less effective, and grease that remains will seep up over time contributing to smell and compromising integrity. Some people have luck simmering over low heat for longer periods, or throwing bones in a slow cooker for the same effect, but a true rolling boil is generally something to avoid for quality bones.
@@flika1052 oh, ew. Definitely not going to boil any bones I want for art then.
Haha looks like everybody beat me to it lol. But yes, boiling can be very bad for several reasons thus why I like trying new ways to clean. But Ruth, maceration is by far the best way in my opinion. If you have not already seen it here is the video on how to do it ruclips.net/video/mWwIW5l296E/видео.html