The water softens the tendons and makes them easier to cut.Ĭleaning bones in hot waterWhen someone shoots a stag with a gamekeeper there, the gamekeeper will usually offer to mount the skull as a present. I have used soaking in cold water for when the body is skeletonised but there are still tendons attached like in the picture above.
I recommend you do not do it if its near anyone else that can smell it. Rotting soft tissue in water is horrible and smelly. Peroxide will not dissolve soft tissue or flesh but it can soften the tissue to make it easier to remove. If it's warmer, the peroxide will work better. It seems to be reused better when it hasn't been exposed to much air. When you take out the bones, rinse them well in a bucket of cold water otherwise you will get white powder residue on the bones. Don't get peroxide on antlers, because it looks rubbish. Then leave for a few days, sometimes a week. Then put the bones or skull in a clear plastic box, then pour over the peroxide, and top it up with water. Cover the top so the peroxide can't get out. Make sure all the bones are underneath with no air bubbles. Rinse the bones or skull with water to get out any dirt or bugs. If you don't have enough you can usually add the same amount of water again. Wear gloves and don't get it on your hands.
(I don't have one so I get dad to do it instead). There is more about each method below.īe very very careful with hydrogen peroxide. To begin with, what condition are the bones in already ? Are they dry with no soft tissue, do they have some flesh attached, or is the animal recently dead ? Choose from the top row, then look down the column to see which are good ways to clean the bones. I prefer to leave the bones until have no soft tissue left but that isn't always possible, especially if it's small animal where the bones are small and might get lost A lot depends on what state the bones are in at the start. There are eight good and two bad techniques to clean bones, but I have missed out one of the good ones because it was told to me as a secret. Other people might have different ideas but these are the ones which work for me. This is what I have found out from five years of bone collecting.
the bone does smell then I use rubber gloves to handle it until it's clean. It is rare to get diseases from any kind of bone like this. If it has been out in the open, doesn't have any soft tissue on it, and doesn't smell, then it is pretty much clean. You don't need to clean every bone you find. Over the last three years that has always been my most popular post on the site, but I have learned a lot since then so in October 2012 I wrote this new page, all about cleaning bones.
#TINYKEEP I HAVE A BONE TO PICK WITH YOU HOW TO#
Back in 2009 I wrote a post about how to clean up animal bones.
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