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looking maceration buckets I've opened. It had the African porcupine that's in the
next picture in it. They often have grease, blood, and small chunks of meat
floating on the surface. This bucket was heated.</figcaption>
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each other, use a water hose to rinse them off and dump again. This rinsing will
get a lot of the remaining gunk off the bones and let you see if they&#8217;re done
macerating. If they look like the next picture, they&#8217;re done macerating and
ready to begin degreasing. If you see a white substance on some bones, you need to
read <a href="https://oddarticulations.com/adipocere101/" target="_blank"
rel="noopener">How to Remove Adipocere/Grave Wax</a></p></div>
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class="widget-image-caption wp-caption-text">This is the African Porcupine from the
last picture after one week of macerating. Completely flesh free. This bucket was
heated.</figcaption>
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<div class="org_comment"><p>Do the sealed buckets themselves smell? My plan
was too keep them in the barn and then take them down to the back of our property
to dump. I don’t think my mom would be super happy if they smelled up the barn.</p>
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<div class="org_comment"><p>If it’s completely sealed, there should be very


very minimal smell. Just DO NOT open the bucket in the barn, because then it will
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<div class="org_comment"><p>At the beginning of this post you mentioned not


using this method for small animals. What is the preferred method you used for
anything squirrel, rat, or smaller? I plan to clean mouse in pretty decent
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using this method for small animals. What is the preferred method you used for
anything squirrel, rat, or smaller?</p>
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<div class="org_comment"><p>I plan on using the skulls mostly. I may try


maceration and see how it goes. Or get myself a nice cage setup and try just
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<div class="org_comment"><p>I got bear skull from my uncle that he left it


outside for a year to decompose. It still have these little dried tissue around it,
do I still need macerate to remove all dried stuff and degrease?</p>
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dried tissue off, then degrease and whiten and you should have a nice clean skull!
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<div class="org_comment"><p>I have noticed when my buckets are not sealed I
get these little white worm looking things in my bucket. They completely filled the
brain cavity of a racoon&#8230;. my bucket is heated to about 85*F.<br />
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<div class="org_comment"><p>Sounds like maggots! Next time remove the brain


before macerating (will cut down on degreasing too), and try to keep the buckets
sealed. The maggots wont necessarily hurt anything, but they can pupate in the
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<div class="org_comment"><p>Why is not recommended to simmer or boil skulls?


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<p>I’ve just begun my journey with skulls. I’ve been bringing water to a simmer,
lowering the heat a bit, and then leaving skulls in at 10 or 5 min increments. This
has only been done with several fish skulls and so far I have not had any negative
effects. </p>
<p>I will be working with wild boar and axis dear skulls in the near future as well
so I’d like to commentate the animals in the best way possible. </p>
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<p>I plan on writing a separate article on the WRONG ways to process bones
eventually, but the simple answer to your question is it causes irreversible
damage. Bone is primarily made of calcium phosphate and collagen. Collagen provides
a flexible network for the strong calcium phosphate to bind to, as by itself
calcium phosphate is quite brittle.</p>
<p>Collagen starts melting at about 160°F, and the deterioration rapidly increases
once you read about 180°F. If you’re boiling/simmering skulls at 212°F, you are
absolutely destroying the collagen fibers in the bone, leaving you with a fragile
calcium phosphate shell that can easily break, crack, peel, etc.</p>
<p>The other negative is the fact that high temperatures like those involved in
simmering and boiling actually force grease deeper into the bone, making degreasing
nearly impossible and take much much much longer.</p>
<p>Beetling or macerating does not damage the collagen in the bone, and macerating
actually begins degreasing the bone at the same time it defleshes it.</p>
<p>Hope this answers your question!</p>
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Pythons and smaller colubrids.</p>
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piece them back together, sure. If you don’t like puzzles, I’d say no. They will
absolutely fall apart (number of pieces varies by age), but will prove incredibly
challenging to someone without experience. Beetles would be the preferred method of
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<div class="org_comment"><p>I have the bucket heater mentioned, but I&#8217;m


not sure what temperature to set since it turns off after reaching it. How would I
keep it at a constant temp? My bucket has a lid, but doesn&#8217;t seal completely.
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<p>The heater cycles on and off to maintain whatever temperature you set it on. I
use mine for degreasing in a 14 gallon barrel and have it set slightly below 50°C
(122°F). If you’re using it to macerate I’d recommend less, probably around 35°C.
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&#8220;collection&#8221; of skulls and skeletons, And my cat very kindly brought me
a shrew. I am only looking to keep the skull as the cat damaged most of the body.
It is quite tiny, and will be the smallest I own. I noticed that you said in the
post not to use this type of maceration on small animals as it makes the teeth fall
out, But I have not been able to find a post on your blog where you explain how to
clean small and delicate animals. I would really appreciate if you could get back
to me soon with a link to the post or some advice as the body is really starting to
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that small, but from my personal experience moles and shrews tend to not have their
teeth fall out, so you might be okay with macerating.</p>
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