#vulture core

[notesandteacupstains]

a sunny day in my half-decorated home

[victorianvampyr]

Finally got the last of the fawn remains put together. Time for other projects! Cause I am sure burned out!

This fawn was a challenge from the start. @bigolbuzzard was the one to find it, her intentions are to taxidermy them and she very kindly gifted me the skeleton to articulate. The poor thing was hit by a car, it’s head was ruined. But fortunately, or unfortunately, I had found my own deceased fawn months prior, and I had kept its head.

In taxidermy, it’s common you keep the feet bones- so I also had to find a replacement for the feet(which are mummified). Luckily a kind soul on Reddit sent me the feet of a roadkill fawn they ran into and were pelting.

Once I had managed to clean the bones- I had to spend hours just gluing the skull/destroyed bones/and caps on the bones back together. When an animal is younger, the bones aren’t fused- so they fall apart when cleaned.

Anyway. I am going to call this skeleton “Frank” due to the fact I had to “Frankenstein” all the fawn pieces together. I know it’s not perfect, but I am proud with the end result! Off to the Nature Center they go for display!

[n0sf4atu]

✧･ﾟ: *･ﾟ* 🦷 ✧･ﾟ*･ﾟ*

(From pinterest)

[little-witchys-garden]

Ima say it bone finders that dig up pet graves are FUCKING HORRIBLE AND I ONLY WISH THE WORST FOR THEM.

I saw a post about a girl who was heart broken just fucking inconsolable because someone dug up her fucking dog's grave and took her dog's corpse..

Now before you ask " oh maybe it was an animal?"

Nope, all the rocks were moved off the grave put in a pile near the grave and there was shovel marks in the dirt and the hole was just empty...

Update more info: she had buried the family dog in their favorite fishing spot, a spot she’d been going to with her dog and grandpa since childhood. The same spot they scattered her grandpa’s ashes.. the dogs grave and memorial stone was next to the grandpa’s memorials stone..... The grandpa's memorial stone was also knocked over along with the dogs memorial stone OnO

I can't imagine the pain of finding out the pet you loved was ripped from it's resting place, you have no place to mourn and no idea where they are or what someone is doing with them.

What's sad is there is a lot of stories like this and it's just heart breaking.

{ that doesn't even go over people stealing dead people's bones.. }

It's sick

Do not dig up people's dead pets

{ don't dig up people bones either }

[candlelitcorners]

skull of the oppossum I cleaned up this summer. likes to read.

[artfaithfully]

Something a little darker for the spooky season❤️🖤🩸

[greenteacryptid]

Teacher: "So, what do you do outside of college?"

Me: (I find dead animals and put them in buckets of water to collect their bones) "Uh, art"

[propalitet]

[little treasures I 26. 11. 2023.]

[fox-yapping]

i’m bored so how to find then clean and whiten bones, beginner friendly:)

the best places to look for bones are where animals are/die, so this can be woods or forests, farm land, near lakes or rivers, roads and train tracks, this is just naming some places i could think of. you are probably going to have the best of luck near roads and on train tracks thanks to roadkill, but remember always be careful keep your eyes and ears open.

so you have found some bones, now how do you clean them?

well it really depends on the state of the bones, some bones if their old enough and have spent enough time in the sun don’t really need to be cleaned at all since all the fur and flesh will be rotten off and the sun whitens bones over time, you might just have to clean some dirt off.

but for bones where that is not the case, they will need to be cleaned, degreased, and whitened.

so now how to do that. before you do anything i recommend scraping/cutting off any fur/flesh that you can it will make the process easier and faster.

scrub the bones with warm water and dish soap i recommend dawn dish soap but any that says it will get rid of grease will work. once you’ve gotten any remaining dirt off soak the bones in boiling water and dish soap for at least 30 minutes then scrub the bones again and soak them in boiling water again. it’s okay if fur/flesh is still on the bones the cleaning process will take care of that.

now rinse and repeat that process. when scrubbing the bones you can use scissors and or tweezers to help pick of any remaining fur/flesh if needed, soaking them will make this easier.

now once they are clean and no longer have any fur/flesh on them they need to be degreased if the cleaning process didn’t already degrease them, it’s the same as the cleaning process make sure to use dish soap that says it gets rid of grease, except now you can also use some hydrogen peroxide, this will also help start the whitening process.

so now they are degreased and ready to be whitened this technically isn’t necessary but it makes bones look nicer, you don’t have to do this if you don’t like the look of it.

if you do want to whiten your bones, use hydrogen peroxide this is the main whitening method i know of, soak them till they have the the level of whiteness you want them to have. you may have to change out the hydrogen peroxide a couple times, you can also leave them in the sun to whiten but that will take longer.

so now you have clean bones:) you will probably have to use superglue or hot glue to glue in teeth and glue jaws together if you have skulls. super glue can also be useful to use on cracks in bones.

but if you want to avoid having to do all this you can always just buy bones. there's no shame in it and anybody who says that there is is not a real bone collector.

one more thing NEVER use bleach on your bones. NEVER. you can use other cleaning products than the ones i said but never use anything with bleach in it. it will turn your bones yellow and make them more brittle and fragile then normal bones. pictures below of some of my skulls, i used bleach on the opossum skull before i knew better.

[poetsofyore]

Being open about collecting bones is awesome. People just be giving me shit now

[xicointhewild]

Mouse skull

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

ecstatic to announce that my roommate came home carrying an entire genuine horse(?) skull that they just found out in the wild

I don't know what we're going to do with it but I'm absolutely fucking thrilled to find out

[ghonstt]

Here we go, First post! turkey vulture skeleton and skull cleaned and processed and the process took a few months.

[little-witchys-garden]

Saw this going round on Instagram and honestly DIY inspiration

[the-witch-of-cedar-and-bone]

Another altar clean with a slight change to the setup for the colder months🦌🕯️🌼

[lavendervc]

1.27.24

Gonna use her for some art!