Duck skulls

[dakids]

I skinned out a pintail skull last night and fed the bugs.  Here is a starting pic and one after 8 hours.  I will take a new picture every 24 hours until they are done. Thanks for looking

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[LPS]

Very cool, I will be checking it out.  I have always wondered how long it takes.

[dakids]

It took 2 days to do a chipmunk skull 2 weeks ago.

[dakids]

48 hours

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[glenn57]

maybe try that on boars noggin next????????

[dakids]

Boars big melon wouldn't fit in the aquarium.

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[LPS]

Do you have to keep putting something in with the beetles so they have something to eat?

[glenn57]

Nan that's cool to follow!;

[dakids]

Do you have to keep putting something in with the beetles so they have something to eat?

Yes.  I'm trying to grow the colony so I will keep feeding them a lot.

[dakids]

Not much noticeable change.

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[Boar]

Boars big melon wouldn't fit in the aquarium.
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yeah well.glenn limes pumpkins.a bit to much...mmmmeeeeeehhhh

[Boar]

isnt this how norman bates started out.??????
i dig demested beetles. their kinda temperment things arnt they
 even a  hange in temperature can cause them to to.die off i large amounts. but such a cool tool i  taxidermy.

[dakids]

Almost ready for the bleaching process.

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[glenn57]

Man that's neat!

[LPS]

Thanks for showing us that.  I was just thinking about you the other day wondering how that project was going.  So did it take a  month to completely eat up those duck heads?  How many beetles do you think you have?

[dakids]

It took about 5 days for each head.  I just bleached them with peroxide from walmart.  I think the colony is over 5000 now.  I put an old deer skull that I forgot I had in the freezer.  Very freezer burned.  They didn't really go crazy on it.  Dryer out.  So I put a 6 inch section of deer spine and they are cleaning it fast. Should be done in a week or less.  Here are a few pictures.

[dakids]

Here the are.

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[deadeye]

Wow, we may have to call you the Beatle Man.

[delcecchi]

So, what does one do with a duck skull?  Put it on a plaque?  Nail it to the barn door?   

[Rebel SS]

So, what does one do with a duck skull?  Put it on a plaque?  Nail it to the barn door?

Use it for a clothespin.   

[dakids]

So, what does one do with a duck skull?  Put it on a plaque?  Nail it to the barn door?

Daughter is adding them to her collection on her shelf.

[glenn57]

That's awesome!

[Boar]

cool, is she gonna whiten them or keep them as is..

[dakids]

I did whiten them a little with peroxide. I am afraid that if I try to go whiter they will become to brittle and fall apart.